At this resolution, the slides are blurry except only the largest text -- but it does give you an idea as to what the application looks like, but does not disclose the exact verbiage unless you really look.
I've done this for two reasons:
1) I want to keep the user intrigued so they sign up for a free trial account.
2) I don't competitors borrowing any ideas and a skewed slideshow is probably the best way.
My question then becomes. What is the purpose of thumbnails? Do they really need full size/screen equivelants?
The latter is what both my mother and father have suggested and it's obviously possible, except that the slide show would need to sop whenever they clicked a image for full view which I just feel is counter-intuitive.
It's a slideshow, it's not meant to give you a real time virtual tour, for that, I want people to signup for a free account. The slideshow is only to entice users into looking deeper into the application.
The slideshow does not really serve as a thubnail -- as the screen is substantially larger than a 40x40 thumbnail. If it intended to show how simple the interface is overall, etc...
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