Storyline Design Challenge

Hey David!

I'm up for the challenge! Do you have a deadline you wish to impose? I'm tied up until Friday so let's say by next Monday allowing the weekend?

Well, since it is the middle of the week, I say we give everyone the rest of this week and next week as well. I actually started a new project with this design, but I am not sure it's the best design for the course. So I may just try to replicate the website itself. 

Sounds fun! Hope you get some good participation David

What a great example, David! I love the simplicity in that timeline. I can totally use this example for this week's challenge.

Kevin, your comment reminded me of something I need to clarify better on the challenge posts. The "weekly"  in Weekly Challenge isn't meant to suggest that there are deadlines to the challenges.

We see the weekly challenges as ways for designers to practice their skills while sharing demos and ideas. Hopefully it helps new users build up their skills and elearning portfolios while encouraging more experienced designers to share their expertise.

So the bottom line: Anyone can post their work to any challenge any time they want. Tom will also write highlight posts on specific challenges to give you guys even more exposure.

Personally, if I were still consulting, I'd try to get one sample in on every challenge just to keep my name out there. Of course I know that's not always possible. But since you can go back and add examples, it might work to knock out a few examples in between projects.

David - I can use your suggestion for this week's post. I love that you shared the challenge here in the forums. I have to believe that a lot of users have ideas that they'd like to see in the challenges so hopefully you've just kicked off a new trend

If you do create a sample, please start a new thread so you can increase your engagement with other users. The blog post comments is mostly used to curate all the samples you guys create. It's probably best to post your samples in the forums or even on your own blogs so you increase your visibility.

Can't thank you enough for this suggestion, David!

Wow...what a great website! I love it. This is indeed a challenge

I'm up for it and working on it!!

This is a great challenge!

I think this will be our first challenge where everyone is working from the same starting point. I'm interested in seeing how everyone approaches this one.

Hey David,

Perhaps re-brand it as "Monthly Challenge" and post it the first Monday of the month. That'll give everyone a month to submit and see other's work for inspiration. With it always open to submit to any Monthly challenge thereafter, yet a new one each month.

I like this one. Hope I get some time to take a crack at it.

That would certainly free up 75% of my time each month

Hey everyone,

this would be a great challenge. I think I got some ideas to start with.

I can feel the lack of sleep coming on. Great design what fun making that work in Storyline I'm into it too.

Brilliant idea, and David I do like the idea of having a baseline starting point for some of the challenges

Thanks for that feedback, Brian. I've heard that now from several people so I'll factor that in going forward. If you have other ideas for challenge topics, please send 'em over. 

What are the rules for the challenge?  Does it all have to be default Storyline functionality?  I've never participated in a challenge before but I think I'm going to give this one a go...

Good questions, Brian.

The challenges are mostly tool agnostic. Even PowerPoint could be used in all but one of the challenges. 

I really liked the challenges Jerson put together a few months back. We saw some amazing entries, but those were bigger challenges that spanned a month or more. For the weeklies, I wanted quick-hit activities that anyone (regardless of skill level) could build in about an hour. Admittedly, I think some folks are putting more time into their demos but that's cool, too

David... perhaps it could be every other week instead of each week. Two challenges a month!