I’m curious about why you need to sign up to view the lessons?
Also, a quibble: some links (like the author’s name next to the course) aren’t actually HTML <a> elements, which both makes it impossible to e.g. right-click and open in a new tab, and is also bad for accessibility purposes.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think the design is particularly childish (as some others have opined). I see a similar style all the time in the creative/​tech/​start-up-ish world, and there it’s surely aimed at adults.
The reason why we ask for sign in is that it allows the user to track their progress through the course, one of our user’s favourite features. Learning about EA can at be an overwhelming sea of links, and we wanted to give users a clearer way to track their progress through it.
The other reason is that it’s on our backlog to consider, but didn’t get to it in time for launch.
This looks very cool!
I’m curious about why you need to sign up to view the lessons?
Also, a quibble: some links (like the author’s name next to the course) aren’t actually HTML
<a>elements, which both makes it impossible to e.g. right-click and open in a new tab, and is also bad for accessibility purposes.For what it’s worth, I don’t think the design is particularly childish (as some others have opined). I see a similar style all the time in the creative/​tech/​start-up-ish world, and there it’s surely aimed at adults.
+1 - I would be interested to know what the drop of rates of having the sign-in with Google are, if you’ve A/​B tested that at all.
I’d be curious too. We haven’t had enough traffic to A/​b test anything yet 😅
The reason why we ask for sign in is that it allows the user to track their progress through the course, one of our user’s favourite features. Learning about EA can at be an overwhelming sea of links, and we wanted to give users a clearer way to track their progress through it.
The other reason is that it’s on our backlog to consider, but didn’t get to it in time for launch.