Looking for Inspiration/Opinions - Need a visual update...

Hi Niall!

Thank you so much for sharing your work with the community and for opening yourself up to constructive feedback! That's not always easy to do! Overall I think you've done a really nice job. It's clean, not too cluttered, not too much content on each slide. 

One thing you might consider is giving the Menu (that appears on the left hand side of the screen) a good cleanup. Right now when the course launches it displays the entire menu and there's a lot of titles that are repeated ("Food") and that appear meaningless to the learner. I would clean up and organize the menu to make it appear neater and I would make it so the menu is minimized when the course is first launched, so the learner isn't overwhelmed by all the lessons listed in the menu.

Here's an article on this topic you might find helpful: Clean Up Your Storyline Player Menu With These 3 Easy Tips

Hope this is helpful :) Again, really nice work!

Thanks Nicole,

Really appreciate your feedback!

Totally agree regarding the menu, it hadn't really occurred to me until you pointed it out but I have just gone in and made some changes and what a difference it makes.

Your article is very helpful also so thanks for adding that in too!

Hi Niall,

I’ve had a look over the course. Good on you for sharing it and opening yourself up to feedback!
Here’s some feedback from me… hope it hits the mark...

• I think if you’re able to introduce some more colour you’d see a big impact. You mentioned that the blue you’re using is coming from the company’s logo. Do they have a set of brand guidelines that outlines other colours in their company palette? Having some extra colour in there would really help break up the content visually and differentiate different types of objects/info on the screen. 

For example on this screen it’s hard to tell the start button is any different from the heading as it is formatted the same:

If there aren’t other colours you can use then maybe even removing some blue would help differentiate content. For example – you could make the body text black rather than dark blue.

• Play with text hierarchy. This is about ensuring learners attention is guided through the content… this is something I’ve started looking at lately and it’s really inspiring to see what a difference small changes in the text can make to the overall look and feel.

I’m no expert on this by any means, but here’s a couple of articles that might get the creative juices flowing…

https://blog.designcrowd.com/article/867/understanding-the-hierarchy-of-text 

https://www.canva.com/learn/typeface-fonts/ 

I hope this is the sort of feedback you were after and that it helps in some way. I also just wanna say that there’s some cool images in the course!!!

 

 

Thanks Shaun,

Really appreciate your feedback, it's given me a lot to consider and got some ideas going on already!

Now that you have said it, I think you are totally right regarding the blue on the title slide, now looking at it, it seems like the whole slide is drowned out and over saturated with blue, definitely going to play around with it and see if I can make it stand out a bit more.

Text hierarchy is definitely something I will need to look into more, the two articles you have kindly provided are very interesting and again, given me a lot to consider moving forward.

Thanks again Shaun, extremely helpful!