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 Kinopio – Thinking Canvas
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
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
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?
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.
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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