In some articles, it's nice to have some images side by side to reduce the vertical length of the article and makes it a little easier to follow.
The issue there is that the images are small and you need to zoom. Which is fine. I find myself tempted every time to click the image to zoom. But that doesn't zoom. It brings up that little toolbar and a button to zoom. Which is cool, but I would think that in the majority of cases, users are looking to zoom there. You may have data that disproves that (in which case, carry on haha), but here’s my suggestion:
- Removing that step would be nice. Toolbar could come up when it's zoomed on that first click maybe.
- I also find myself hitting the esc key when zoomed, to exit the zoom state. But hitting esc actually closes the whole card. It would be nice if, when zoomed in, that would close the zoom instead of the whole article. Because then I need to click back into it.