Upon searching and searching, the images in the content library are seriously lacking in diversity in age, gender, ethnicity, LGBTI and more! Am I doing something wrong here?
I've been wanting to ask about this for months, and just came out here to do it! I'm so grateful to have this wonderful content library, especially for Rise! I'm also concerned about the lack of diversity in the images made available. We would love to see a very diverse library!
Great news! We released an update for Articulate 360, which included some new photographic and illustrated characters to the Content Library, with a focus on diversity. Take a peek at all the new additions in the release notes here.
And because the Content Library is a web app, no need to install any updates. The new characters are immediately available to all Articulate 360 users!
We’ll keep sharing your feedback with our team as we continue increasing character diversity!
The characters in the content library are a littlemore diverse now, yet there is no handicapped person besides the one posture of the character in a wheelchair. Also, all characters are still based on gender stereotypes, even the illustrations.
I would very much welcome characters which do represent our world. Thus we need non-stereotypical representations. I am not talking about a "man" in a skirt (although I wouldn't mind some courage here), but just not every "male" person standing there in a wide stance, while "female" characters' clothes are all slimfit.
I appreciate you taking the time to share what you’d like to see in Articulate 360. We currently have this logged as a feature request, so I’ll go ahead and include your voice. We’ll update this discussion if there’s any news regarding this feature.
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Hello Ray,
I let our team know that you'd like to see more diverse characters added to Content Library 360 and promise to update you on any changes.
Thank you for contributing!
Thanks everyone for raising this issue, much needed!!
I agree 100% - I'm finding I have to use outside sources to add diversity to my content. Thanks in advance.
I've been wanting to ask about this for months, and just came out here to do it! I'm so grateful to have this wonderful content library, especially for Rise! I'm also concerned about the lack of diversity in the images made available. We would love to see a very diverse library!
I agree.
Hi Everyone,
Great news! We released an update for Articulate 360, which included some new photographic and illustrated characters to the Content Library, with a focus on diversity. Take a peek at all the new additions in the release notes here.
And because the Content Library is a web app, no need to install any updates. The new characters are immediately available to all Articulate 360 users!
We’ll keep sharing your feedback with our team as we continue increasing character diversity!
Hi Ren
Thanks for replying and it's so great to see some diversity in the characters! Thanks for listening to us!
Ray
The characters in the content library are a little more diverse now, yet there is no handicapped person besides the one posture of the character in a wheelchair. Also, all characters are still based on gender stereotypes, even the illustrations.
I would very much welcome characters which do represent our world.
Thus we need non-stereotypical representations. I am not talking about a "man" in a skirt (although I wouldn't mind some courage here), but just not every "male" person standing there in a wide stance, while "female" characters' clothes are all slimfit.
Hi Luka,
I appreciate you taking the time to share what you’d like to see in Articulate 360. We currently have this logged as a feature request, so I’ll go ahead and include your voice. We’ll update this discussion if there’s any news regarding this feature.
Thanks for reaching out!