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Coursekit is now Lore

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Re: Coursekit is now Lore

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Post by dfc »

dfc wrote: post #11
subpixel wrote: post #9

The Coursekit identity (including the name) is one of the strongest I've seen in recent history. So I'm kind of bummed at the change. The long-winded apologia re: the new name and logo suggests to me that the team is making the switch for reasons that trump design considerations altogether. But for some reason they've couched their explanation in design language. IMO: customers/users are interested in product, not pr…

I have never heard of them. What are they so well knoiwn for?

Why is it bad to ask? The linked page does not render well on mobile device.

Re: Coursekit is now Lore

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Post by MaysonL »

unalone wrote: post #3

It might just be me, but when I see announcements so overly-styled, without the styling having much semantic relevance to the content, I stop trusting the site that made the announcement. I want to place my faith in no-nonsense services, and an announcement like this is all-nonsense. Lore is an excellent name for a service, though.

I stopped reading during the second instance of floating circles - it's too much visual annoyance for too little payoff.

Re: Coursekit is now Lore

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Post by unalone »

headbiznatch wrote: post #16
unalone wrote: post #3

It might just be me, but when I see announcements so overly-styled, without the styling having much semantic relevance to the content, I stop trusting the site that made the announcement. I want to place my faith in no-nonsense services, and an announcement like this is all-nonsense. Lore is an excellent name for a service, though.

I thought the presentation metaphorically enforced the message they were trying to deliver. To me, that's actually useful and not "over-styled" or "all-nonsense" - it's a valid technique to communicate with more than just words and to encourage a viewer (well, a viewer that doesn't distrust animation and/or "styling") to watch the entire presentation.

If it had been done well, I would agree with you. But it was fluff – visually simplistic, yet too generically symbolic to convey anything actually meaningful. What's more, the break between sentences disrupted my actually reading their thoughts, and the animation further distracted from the message.

Text plays by its own rules. If you're using text to express thought rather than to evoke some kind of emotion, you want that text to be as clear and as direct as possible. There are tactics which can be used to enhance the delivery of a statement; this one does nothing but distract from the message.

Re: Coursekit is now Lore

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Post by headbiznatch »

unalone wrote: post #24
headbiznatch wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the presentation metaphorically enforced the message they were trying to deliver. To me, that's actually useful and not "over-styled" or "all-nonsense" - it's a valid technique to communicate with more than just words and to encourage a viewer (well, a viewer that doesn't distrust animation and/or "styling") to watch the entire presentation.

If it had been done well, I would agree with you. But it was fluff – visually simplistic, yet too generically symbolic to convey anything actually meaningful. What's more, the break between sentences disrupted my actually reading their thoughts, and the animation further distracted from the message. Text plays by its own rules. If you're using text to express thought rather than to evoke some kind of emotion, you wan…

I disagree. The circles represent people. The metaphor is skillfully used in conjunction with the words.

You don't want to dig deeper on this - fine. I get it. But there is a symbolism being successfully manipulated here and just because you don't like it does not mean it isn't "done well". It just means you don't like it.

Re: Coursekit is now Lore

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Post by unalone »

headbiznatch wrote: post #25
unalone wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it had been done well, I would agree with you. But it was fluff – visually simplistic, yet too generically symbolic to convey anything actually meaningful. What's more, the break between sentences disrupted my actually reading their thoughts, and the animation further distracted from the message. Text plays by its own rules. If you're using text to express thought rather than to evoke some kind of emotion, you wan…

I disagree. The circles represent people. The metaphor is skillfully used in conjunction with the words. You don't want to dig deeper on this - fine. I get it. But there is a symbolism being successfully manipulated here and just because you don't like it does not mean it isn't "done well". It just means you don't like it.

That's the sort of "skillful metaphor" a group of high school kids would put in a Social Studies PowerPoint. It's funny that you think what you gleaned from the circles involved any sort of deep digging: the symbolism is as blatant as it is pointless. It's a stylish flourish that adds an animation to thoughts so simple they needed no illustration.

Re: Coursekit is now Lore

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Post by headbiznatch »

unalone wrote: post #26
headbiznatch wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. The circles represent people. The metaphor is skillfully used in conjunction with the words. You don't want to dig deeper on this - fine. I get it. But there is a symbolism being successfully manipulated here and just because you don't like it does not mean it isn't "done well". It just means you don't like it.

That's the sort of "skillful metaphor" a group of high school kids would put in a Social Studies PowerPoint. It's funny that you think what you gleaned from the circles involved any sort of deep digging: the symbolism is as blatant as it is pointless. It's a stylish flourish that adds an animation to thoughts so simple they needed no illustration.

Heh - OK. Yeah, I like the 3 Stooges AND Spalding Gray, so you can get as arrogant as you want to about that.

Some of the other style/substance mavens here agree with you, but this one doesn't. That's all... I think you should be a little more gracious in your dialogue when you start it with "It might just be me...".

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