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Responsive design in Storyline 360
Hi all, I have read this thread with interest. I work for a company with approx 5000 workers and 80% of them have access to a mobile phone ONLY to access the eLearning we create. As much as I agree with many of the comments on here that eLearning is not a great experience on a mobile phone, we have to cater for an audience consuming learning content on a phone. No-one is going to order a few thousand laptops/PCs any time soon.
Calling a spade a spade, we know that Articulate Storyline as a tool does not help to build truly repsonsive content. Yes the player is 'responsive' but when the perfectly-legible text that appears on your PC screen needs viewing with a magnifying glass on your phone screen, you know that we are not really talking about responsive design, here.
However, Articulate Storyline is still a versatile tool and bunny-hops many of the limitations of the templated Rise alternative. Stopping short of looking for a different course authoring tool that creates content purely for phones (yes, that's a thing and we are considering it!), I'd love to know some design tips for using Storyline across multiple devices. A few of the comments on this thread allude to 'it's a design thing' so please share. Like Dumbo, I'm all ears.
If most of your users access courses via a phone, you could design the courses to optimize that format.
- Use larger type, with less text per slide.
- Make all clickable items bigger.
- You could even customize the slide size so it's vertical instead of horizontal.
Such a course would still work fine for those who do use a laptop or desktop. (Well, they might think a vertical course is a bit strange. But they'll still be able to use it.)
