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Show HN: Open Source website to learn anything with maps

1 points by nikivi 9y ago

Hey everyone. Today we released a new update to our website where we completely redesigned the website from scratch and now anyone can come in and add resources and links of their own. The goal of the website is to visually present the most efficient paths for learning any topic on Earth. Would really love to hear your thoughts and feedback. It's also Open Source (https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything) so if you know a little React, we would love to get any help we can get. Thank you. The website can be seen live here: https://learn-anything.xyz/ https://learn-anything.xyz/

niwolive 9y ago
Wow, great concept! Here's some feedback :) For the landing page − I like how uncluttered the design is, and how it serves one specific purpose. I very intuitively went to the big input box and started typing things I wanted to learn about, expecting to be presented a list of resources. On the down side, perhaps the hamburger menu is not intuitive enough, and makes some essential information from the « About » page too hard to access? More on this below... Regarding the Presentation of results / the map − I felt a mixture of enthusiasm and overwhelm when I was presented the map. I was sure what the connections between the map items meant and similarly confused about the « + / - » next to each of the resources and some of the icons (didn't find the legend immediately). Also, here's a bug: right after clicking one of the suggestions when typing « elm » on the landing page, the list of suggestions was still appearing over the map when it loaded. Here's a picture demonstrating it: https://i.imgur.com/KJkssYx.png https://i.imgur.com/KJkssYx.png When I found my way to the well hidden « about » page, I could gradually learn more about how the map was constructed and how to interact with it. To avoid the initial confusion, it would have been helpful to be introduced to the map with a 3-4 steps tutorial made of a few sequential tooltips explaining me how it is laid out and how I can interact with it. Each tooltip could have a « Got it! » button to go to the next tip / explaination, and probably a « skip tutorial » link for the returning visitors who cleared their cookies. Overall I think this is a very usefull website, with a user-friendly workflow to search and add resources, that could be better introduced to with the aforementioned interactive tutorial. If you want more feedback, feel free to submit your site to Usability Testing Exchange, https://usability.testing.exchange https://usability.testing.exchange — that's a free people-help-each-other-with-feedback place I'm helping to get started.

1 points by nikivi 9y ago

niwolive 9y ago

Wow, great concept! Here's some feedback :) For the landing page − I like how uncluttered the design is, and how it serves one specific purpose. I very intuitively went to the big input box and started typing things I wanted to learn about, expecting to be presented a list of resources. On the down side, perhaps the hamburger menu is not intuitive enough, and makes some essential information from the « About » page too hard to access? More on this below... Regarding the Presentation of results / the map − I felt a mixture of enthusiasm and overwhelm when I was presented the map. I was sure what the connections between the map items meant and similarly confused about the « + / - » next to each of the resources and some of the icons (didn't find the legend immediately). Also, here's a bug: right after clicking one of the suggestions when typing « elm » on the landing page, the list of suggestions was still appearing over the map when it loaded. Here's a picture demonstrating it: https://i.imgur.com/KJkssYx.png https://i.imgur.com/KJkssYx.png When I found my way to the well hidden « about » page, I could gradually learn more about how the map was constructed and how to interact with it. To avoid the initial confusion, it would have been helpful to be introduced to the map with a 3-4 steps tutorial made of a few sequential tooltips explaining me how it is laid out and how I can interact with it. Each tooltip could have a « Got it! » button to go to the next tip / explaination, and probably a « skip tutorial » link for the returning visitors who cleared their cookies. Overall I think this is a very usefull website, with a user-friendly workflow to search and add resources, that could be better introduced to with the aforementioned interactive tutorial. If you want more feedback, feel free to submit your site to Usability Testing Exchange, https://usability.testing.exchange https://usability.testing.exchange — that's a free people-help-each-other-with-feedback place I'm helping to get started.