Triumph Street Triple Web site

It’s a tasty motorcycle for sure, but on the Triumph Street Triple Flash microsite, there are a couple of irritating little niggles which hit you fairly early on.

For people who actually want to read text on this Web site, two faults will make this a difficult task:

Firstly, the text size is on the small side, which on a high pixel density display (not uncommon) makes it difficult to read.

Secondly, the Flash object automatically cycles through a content sequence, which breaks the usability guideline of putting users in control. Biggest problem in this case is that each frame does not stay on screen long enough for you to comfortably read all of the text. There are some small and fiddly to use control buttons (pause, previous, next) but users should not need to resort to these just to read a paragraph of copy.

There are a few other problems with this site, but I’m only going to address text readability in this post.

This is a great looking ‘bike and a nice looking Web site too. It’s just a shame about those niggly little faults which are clearly evident, even without user testing.