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Posted by Chris Skinner
Chris Skinner
3,807 Points

treehouse site improvements / suggestions

Hi Guys,

Joined a week ago and loving the videos - however, I've a couple of suggestions.

  1. When searching for a course, or subject. The search field is, to be fair, pretty useless. If I type ' animation' because I'd like to learn about CSS3 animations. Nothing comes up. This would make me think you guys don't do a course on that. Which you do, but I had to spend about 10 minutes digging around to find it. (if I was on a no-pay site, you know I would have left due to frustration within the first 12 seconds...)

**This search needs to be better, get it to search the sections of courses and / or better still an option to search in the video titles.

  1. Next, I like the way a couple of your authors deliver the lessons / videos and thought you'd have some way of showing all the courses they have made. However again, this is not the case. Instead, when clicking on their profile, you show me all the badges they have.. excuse me if I sound a bit harsh, but I don't care about this and lets hope they DO already have the knowledge to attain these badges else we're all in trouble.... :S

  2. Finally, when viewing a course list, then opening up a sections panel (say the animation section on the CSS Foundations course). When selecting a video, any chance to keep that section part of the course open when clicking back from the video. Currently all sections are closed and I have to scroll down, open the section again.

Apart from the above, love the way the site looks and feels. Hope you like my UX feedback! Chris

4 Answers

Chris Akers
Chris Akers
2,527 Points
Chris Akers
Chris Akers
2,527 Points

Tagging some designers: Chris Michel, Tyson Rosage, Daniel Lewis, Matt Spiel

Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points
Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points

I would like to see better and more useful feedback when you get a challenge question wrong, something that gives me a bit more of a hint as to where I'm going wrong.

Regarding the the quiz questions, on more than one occasion i have got a question wrong just because i have used the proper spelling , opps, i mean the British spelling ;) it would be nice if things were a little less stringent in certain areas.

Thanks

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

For programming properties like color or grey in CSS there is only one right way to spell them, the way the browser redenering engine recognizes them.

Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points

Hi James, I know what you mean, and i except i have to spell code as it should be, i was referring to spelling outside of code.

I can't actually remember what they were now, but i think one example might have been: realise and realize.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Chris Skinner - It seems to me that the mental model Treehouse uses is different than video tutorial sites found across the web. It's more like a class with a syallbus rather than youtube-style playlist of related tutorials. My 2 cents, is to follow along with a track rather than jump to a badge that's in the middle of a course.

I don't work for Treehouse, that's just my 2 cents as a user of the site.

Tyson Rosage
Tyson Rosage
1,896 Points
Tyson Rosage
Tyson Rosage
1,896 Points

Thanks for the feedback Chris. Library search is an area we all agree and are aware needs improvement. Having other means of searching than just topic and title is something we have planned for the near future. Allowing for you to search by teacher as well is in the cards for the future. As for opening and closing steps for stages that's something where we can have that last state saved so it remembers if you last opened or closed it.

Chris Skinner
Chris Skinner
3,807 Points

Thanks Tyson, sounds good! :)