I had been designing a template for displaying the powerpoint slides supplied. It employed a simple layout as shown above but forgot to take into account a very important factor. The user would not be navigating with a mouse (my navigation for designing) but with a dvd remote which allows the user limited movement: up, down, left and right - not 'free' navigation as with a computer mouse.
I therefore had to re-jig my layout because as the user navigates to the next page the first button becomes highlighted (which in the case of my initial design would be the 'return' button. ) This is not desirable as i want to make it very easy and quick for the user to navigate directly through the slide show. In order to move from slide 1 to slide2 to the user would have to move from 'return' to 'previous' and then to 'next' to get to the next page. I need the 'next' button to be the first button on the page so that all the user needs to do is hit enter to get to the next page. Dvd players/menus are known to move relatively slowly any way so any measures to make it faster and easier should be taken.
I tried changing the configuration of the buttons but then hit a new problem:
In order for 'next' to be the first button highlighted it must be the top/left most button on the menu. In the layout above 'next' occurs before 'previous' which just doesn't make logical sense (since we read left to right). It isn't chronological and it seems a bit awkward. Not sure how to resolve this - can i just rely on the words to communicate?
It would be quite good if i could keep with my original template but program the menu so that 'next' is the first button selected even if it doesn't occur first in the layout. - need some technical advice.
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