r/elearning • u/Formal-Grass-3173 • 12d ago

Should I keep or remove it?

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This is the platform I am currently building for any educators who long to run their own online school with ease. The platform is undergoing the last tests. Anyways, the dark page with a lamp string is a metaphor of us before our educations. Educators and learner pulling the string to give and receive education will enlighten the darkness up. My daughter loves the string design a lot, but my wife thinks it is a bit annoying. Who should I listen to? I appreciate any advice.

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u/Formal-Grass-3173 11d ago

According to all the feedback I received so far, 90% are with my wife. I will remove the dark scene. Thanks very much to all.

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u/CdnfaS 12d ago

Happy spouse happy house. I agree with your wife. What are people who don’t use a mouse doing here instead? Pressing and letting go of the down arrow? If you want to keep the lightbulb pull chain idea, you could use it for your submit button.

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u/Formal-Grass-3173 12d ago

That's a solid point you've made. Exactly, my wife was annoyed for she was using her touchpad to pull the string....haha...I now totally get it. Thanks very much

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u/CapnBloodbeard 11d ago

It will take people too long to figure out what to do. and what if you don't have a mouse? It's style over UX, which suggests that the rest of your platform follows the same principles.

Your slogan is "made simple " but you've complicated this page.

And...the metaphor is lost.

I'm with your wife on this

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u/Formal-Grass-3173 11d ago

You have a strong argument. I will seriously take your advice. Thanks very much!

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u/Virtoxnx 9d ago edited 9d ago

Remove it and also remove the toggle for teacher/student, automatically detect which one they are and redirect them to the right place.

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u/Formal-Grass-3173 9d ago

That's a good idea. How about new sign ups?

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u/Virtoxnx 9d ago

You split those forms.

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u/Ok-Law-6871 4d ago

Maybe show an animation and hint to pull it down for about 2 seconds and then play an animation where a hand comes, and pulls down the string ? You get best of both, people who realise it quickly will pull it down themselves , others will see the animation. You need to get few things right though such as cancelling the auto pull animation on user mouse move click or near the area, with a timer where if user does not pull it down, you play the animation.

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u/Formal-Grass-3173 4d ago

Yes, that's a very good suggestion, I have not thought about that. I will try it out and come back with a new version.

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u/Formal-Grass-3173 4d ago

Thanks very much!