High-Context Storyline Course Example

Hi Stephanie,

Yeah, the course was kind of a Frankenstein's monster, with newer design elements built over the top of an older Storyline template. The buttons are pretty consistently square and flat except where we re-used elements from our older course template--mainly in the "boilerplate" stuff: the start slide, the slides at the start and end of modules, and some of the front-matter. Once you get into the course proper, things are a bit more consistent. But I take your point: the course would benefit from a careful UI consistency polish.

Like you, we realized we should ditch the border around each slide and have done so on subsequent courses we've developed.

As always, there are a lot of layers to the onion and one has to prioritize sometimes.  As you move to this kind of context-rich, custom interaction style of course, you also end up with the responsibility to create more of the UI. I agree with you that the more consistent the UI is, the less likely it is to distract the learner by inadvertently calling attention to itself.