About/Marketing page

Started working on the marketing site for Kinopio,
I have some super rough copy, and I’ve updated https://help.kinopio.club to make room for an /about page (on dev)

WIP: this is not what it’ll look like when it’s done

This screenshot is just for posterity. Everything is super incomplete right now, and I think this project will also involve a redesign of the help site in general.

I’ve already started noodling around with fonts and aesthetic directions in https://kinopio.club/help-site-redesign-w-fonts-La3P2hMCw_4s6PGvuv-R_

Goals

  • Provide confidence for people that prefer to read/understand the basics before diving in. Meeting those people closer to their existing comfort zone.
  • An explanation/resource you can send to more conservative friends/teams
  • May give me the headroom to simplify/reduce the welcome space

How I expect people to end up here

https://kinopio.club will always take you to the app as it does now, but under a couple conditions you’ll see an attention grabbing notification bubble with a link to the about page. The notification will be user dismissible though, once dismissed it won’t show up again.

  • if you’re a signed out user in your welcome space
  • if you’re a signed out user on any space
  • from an ‘about’ link in the app About dialog
  • you find yourself on the help site and click ‘about’ in the header

Things I want to have/answer on this page

  • what kinopio is
  • show how it’s different
  • what you can use it for (maybe with links to templates)
  • pricing
  • Mentions mind-mapping more prominently, but doesn’t come off as Only for mind-mapping

Any things you think are missing?

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I’m really excited about this project, especially for this goal. It’s always a bit of a challenge to introduce others to the tool because it is different, so I’m hoping this page will help that :slight_smile:

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an upfront list of example/recommended use-cases:

these will probably link to existing templates, are there specific usecases i should include here

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Two big use cases for me personally are note-taking and planning. I know note-taking is a very broad category. In particular, I use Kinopio a lot for presentation/lecture/sermon notes. This is a mode where I am listening to a speaker and writing notes I want to capture. The structure of the talk is unfolding in real-time, so the nice thing about Kinopio is that I can easily adjust placement of notes to reflect the outline as it’s being revealed.

And by planning, I am thinking of all the spec spaces you have (@pirijan), or spaces I’ve made for my team to see what features/tasks we have for an upcoming release, or where folks are planning out blog posts. Oh, and I regularly use Kinopio to outline/plan academic papers. I don’t think of these items as “mind-mapping”, but maybe others might?

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maybe i should replace ‘meeting notes’ with a more general ‘note taking’

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Yeah, I think it depends on how it’s presented. I think it’s really helpful to have targeted examples/templates so people have something concrete they can try Kinopio out with. But I wouldn’t want people’s perceptions of Kinopio to be that it’s limited to these use cases. At the same time, listing out all the use cases might be overwhelming and suggest that the app is unfocused (even if it’s not). I suppose if, for each use case, you had concrete examples (videos, templates, tutorials), that would defend against that.

clicking on each of the examples above would take you to a template space for each, this is something I want to be lightweight and maintainable

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old progress update:

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Love the font choice on the ‘Spatial Thinking’ headline :heart:

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A little feature of the new /about page is that it will automatically draw things along side you.

To do this, I wrote some code that would record my paint strokes and then set those strokes to play them back to with the same timing I used when drawing them.

I’ll trigger these pre-recorded strokes to draw when certain elements are in view, or maybe if you click on stuff.

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it’s pretty fun to draw next to the computer

(spark any ideas for implementing drawing in kinopio? :wink: )

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that’s why i originally built the help site persistent drawing feature, as a protoype

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I know this is work in progress, but the paint doesn’t resize, so if you resize the window, it gets misaligned:

I may or may not fix the resizing issue , resizing the page may not be common enough to be worth the high extra scope to fix

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alrighty, the site is now released at https://help.kinopio.club/about/

What do you think? Let me know if you find any bugs or issues

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Looks like clicking “Lots More” just loads a grey space:

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whoops thx, just fixed that link

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Typo:
image

Fix:

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This feels really great and clean :slight_smile:

The drawing interaction on mobile is really fun to fiddle with!

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