Coursekit is now Lore
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Coursekit is now Lore
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Re: Coursekit is now Lore
#2Rebranding a college-course websites at the end of the school semester is not a smart idea. :P
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#3It 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.
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#4The page communicated the process/reasoning really well.
Goodluck to the team
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#5Ehhhhhh, am I the only one that hates both the name and the presentation?
The name is so highly associated with 'folklore' which is so highly associated with stories that are legendary and part of culture, but clearly factually incorrect (thinking Paul Bunyon etc.). Inspiring fiction.
This is not what Coursekit is.
The presentation is hardly readable: extremely light grey type on a white background with spinny animations going on in the background...nuff said.
Not only that, their old logo kicked ass, and the new one is...meh.
Re: Coursekit is now Lore
#6Ehhhhhh, am I the only one that hates both the name and the presentation? The name is so highly associated with 'folklore' which is so highly associated with stories that are legendary and part of culture, but clearly factually incorrect (thinking Paul Bunyon etc.). Inspiring fiction. This is not what Coursekit is. The presentation is hardly readable: extremely light grey type on a white background with spinny animat…
Glad you like it!
Re: Coursekit is now Lore
#7Ehhhhhh, am I the only one that hates both the name and the presentation? The name is so highly associated with 'folklore' which is so highly associated with stories that are legendary and part of culture, but clearly factually incorrect (thinking Paul Bunyon etc.). Inspiring fiction. This is not what Coursekit is. The presentation is hardly readable: extremely light grey type on a white background with spinny animat…
Glad you like it!
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Re: Coursekit is now Lore
#8Ehhhhhh, am I the only one that hates both the name and the presentation? The name is so highly associated with 'folklore' which is so highly associated with stories that are legendary and part of culture, but clearly factually incorrect (thinking Paul Bunyon etc.). Inspiring fiction. This is not what Coursekit is. The presentation is hardly readable: extremely light grey type on a white background with spinny animat…
Yeah, I can barely read the type! I thought there must've been some mistake, but I guess it was a specific choice that they made. If I were Lore, I would change the type to dark grey or black right away.
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#9The 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 process. The fancy design brief feels like energy that could be best spent explaining what Lore is and how it will be useful.
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#10Nice domain name!