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Pictory

Part 3 in the impromptu sequence of Notes On the Topic of Keyboard Driven Navigation Sites features Pictory - a site showcasing user-contributed photography on a set theme, captioned to tell “your best photo stories”.

The FAQ states that “Pictory has been designed as a showcase for large captioned images” and although that description is entirely correct, it says nothing about the emotive stories that the magazine, created and curated by Laura Brunow Miner and developed by Jeff Croft manages to convey.

The site is a perfect example of a design where the precision of a mouse pointer on a scrollbar is unnecessarily precise, a design where each photograph and caption becomes a de facto section which can be moved between, easily and naturally, with the left and right arrows on your keyboard.

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