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Animation in Storyline through the Morph Transition
Some time ago, PowerPoint came out with a transition called Morph that literally morphs shapes, colors, strokes, graphics, etc. from one slide to the next. In other words, if you build a design on o...
Hi Everyone! - As Lead Customer Advocate at Articulate, my goal is to work directly with our product team to voice your needs. I take into account every insight shared in our E-Learning Heroes community, and evaluate 100+ feature requests every week.
I understand your passion for this feature and share the same enthusiasm when I bring requests to our team.
To add more context, the need for Morph Transitions has impacted a low number of users, and that contributes to the priority we give it. Industry trends, new ideas, and complexity of a feature also weigh in on our decision process, but none of these factors have managed to move this one past the items currently on our product roadmap.
I hope this glimpse into our feature process will help address any concerns.
Bret, not that I doubt you, but may I ask what metrics you have to illustrate this low number of users, or how you gather this data? I've used Storyline at more than one company and I've never seen any sort of survey or similar.
I logged in to say the same thing. If Articulate are only going by the number of users who actively contact them and ask for a feature, they're misreading their audience. For every one of us who has commented in this thread, there will be hundreds who don't bother reading here, but who would also greatly appreciate this feature, and make purchasing decisions accordingly.
I've also never seen a survey.
I don't want to go back to iSpring - I use layers and triggers a lot, and although you can duplicate that in iSpring, it is more labour intensive, as is any kind of navigation other than linear. It can be done though. And when I weigh up the amount of time I spend to recreate even text boxes in Storyline, because they've imported as pictures, well, the time may not be a lot different.
Hi David,
Along with industry trends, competitor analysis, and other factors that contribute to our feature roadmap decisions - the number of users impacted is an aggregate of 360 users involved in an E-Learning Heroes post like this one, as well as all individual Feature Requests submitted to www.articulate.com/fr.
I am sorry you do not see the need for morph. Your competition, iSpring, allows me to retain all of my morph transitions when creating courses in PPT thru their tool. I understand adding morph to Storyline could be difficult, but I do not understand how adding morph to Articulate 360 (presenter) would be hard. I have purchased iSpring just so I have access to Morph. With the recent release of iSpring Page (basically iSpring’s version of Articulate Rise), now when I compare iSpring to Articulate… the differentiator for me is morph. We rely primarily on Articulate 360 or RISE to create our courses, so losing access to Storyline does not hurt me at this point. I prefer to stay with Articulate… but the morph feature is a ‘must have” in my world and iSpring offers me that. So for now, unfortunately, I am switching to iSpring and will not be renewing with Articulate. If you have morph by the time my renewal date comes back around, I am hopeful to return.
https://www.ispringsolutions.com/blog/ispring-supports-the-amazing-morph-transition
https://www.ispringsolutions.com/ispring-pageI can understand where you're coming from on the "metrics" side of things...but the other considerations to take is that a far more inferior product to Articulate is offering a feature that many of us use. It is us minorities that will drive and inspire the majority. So I would like the Articulate team to be encouraged that it would be a very helpful feature AND that if more people knew about this feature being available in Articulate they'd probably NOT use 3rd party for it.
@bjorgensen Good to hear some motivation about choices made on the development roadmap Bret. To improve visibility and clarity of the development product roadmap i would suggest creating a viewable list for all users here on the forum where all can see what is top priority and if ideas and things they request are already on that list...and possibly vote directly on items.
