Responsive Design – Say Yeah! https://sayyeah.com Digital management consulting that shapes more effective organizations. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:08:06 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4 https://insights.sayyeah.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-apple-touch-icon-32x32.png Responsive Design – Say Yeah! https://sayyeah.com 32 32 Introducing Rise & Shine, an automated and immersive voice add-on for Rise courses https://sayyeah.com/digital-insights/introducing-shine-for-rise-courses/ Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:13:26 +0000 https://sayyeah.com/?p=17220 For all those course creators out there, we’re excited to share a new tool with you that will help make your Articulate Rise courses even more immersive, accessible, interactive, and engaging. Say Yeah developed Rise & Shine to magically bring courses to life with immersive audio and add flexibility for learners and course managers. The […]

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]]> For all those course creators out there, we’re excited to share a new tool with you that will help make your Articulate Rise courses even more immersive, accessible, interactive, and engaging. Say Yeah developed Rise & Shine to magically bring courses to life with immersive audio and add flexibility for learners and course managers.

The Articulate Rise web-based authoring tool has been a boon to course creators looking to build interactive, mobile-friendly online courses without deep technical skills.

Rise already does so many things well—from allowing for responsive design to incorporating interactive content blocks—but there are clear opportunities to improve accessibility, flexibility, and engagement. We’ve taken Rise to the next level by creating an add-on that lets users listen to the content immersively as they engage with media and interactive content, while allowing course managers to easily update content on an ongoing basis.

This screenshot of the Shine website header says Magically bring your Rise courses to life. Followed by, Shine is a read-along narration add-on for Articulate Rise courses that seamlessly engages with interactive content, creating an automated and immersive learning experience. And play button labelled, See it in action.

Trust us, it’s cool. Get a feel for Rise & Shine.

Let’s explore what Shine is and how it can provide a better user experience for your learners.

Shine makes every Rise course more engaging and accessible

No question, Rise is a great tool for course creators, but there are a number of out-of-the-box constraints for learners. The model of Rise courses is a slide-show style standard that’s augmented by an overreliance on animation that isn’t as immersive, flexible, or comfortable for every learner as it should be.

To address this, we created an immersive read-along narration that works with all standard Rise elements across a course. Easy to setup and seamless to update, courses become more immersive, flexible, and accessible for every learner.

Here’s how it works.

Automatic integration into existing content

Shine automatically syncs its narration—not only with text-based content, but with interactive Rise blocks too—as learners are guided through the course. This includes headings, quotes, images, lists, and more. The add-on requires no additional technical set-up—making enhancing existing courses quick and simple, and easy to update if you need to make any changes to course content.

Customization options

Learners have different preferences as to how they engage with course content. Shine empowers every learner to choose the path that best suits them. Each learner can control and adjust the speed of spoken content, while automatically scrolling through the text to create an immersive, hands-free learner experience.

You get to choose from multiple voices to match the tone of the course and adjust settings for more accessible text sizes, voice integration, and animations.

Enhanced interactivity

Shine makes spoken playback more engaging by automatically incorporating visual elements like tabs, accordions, and flash cards provided by standard Rise blocks.

Learners can also follow the narrated content while simultaneously interacting with multimedia elements, such as videos, quizzes, and clickable scenarios.

And audio prompts remind learners when their input is needed for assessments or other types of engagements, ensuring everyone gets to experience the full, expanded, and immersive learning experience of Rise & Shine.

A Rise Course interface showing the audio controls enabled by Shine

Try out the latest demo at https://shine.sayyeah.courses

Compatibility

Shine is compatible across all devices and platforms. Whether learners access a course on a desktop, tablet, or mobile device, the narration will function smoothly, providing a consistent and seamless learning experience. Simply put: Shine works where Rise works, augmenting your Rise courses wherever they’re accessed.

Get Shine today and open up access and engagement to your Rise courses

Get in touch for a custom demo See Shine in action

Let’s highlight Shine’s benefits for learners

Improved accessibility

Shine makes Rise courses even more accessible by allowing learners with visual impairments, reading difficulties, or other specific learning needs more options for how they access and engage with the course content.

Increased engagement

Shine not only adds greater interactivity to courses, it also creates a multi-sensory experience that can help clarify complex ideas and reinforce key points.

A more flexible learning experience

Shine makes it easy for learners to access their online courses on any device, whether at home, work, class, or on a commute, while tailoring the learning experience to their preferences.

How does Rise & Shine work?

Unlocking these benefits couldn’t be easier.

You simply take your Rise course package, drop it into Shine, choose a voice, and let the magic happen. You then take your Shined Rise package, publish it as you usually do, and you’re done!

Need to make changes?

No trouble! Update your course content in Rise and drop the latest version back into Shine. Shine will automatically update all the audio based on the latest course content and you’ll get your latest Shined Rise package back.

Shine for Rise courses is available now!

Get in touch today to get started or for a personalized Shine demo.

Get in touch for a custom demo

See Shine in action

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]]> FITC Web Unleashed, October 24 -26, 2022 https://sayyeah.com/digital-insights/fitc-web-unleashed-october-2022/ Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:10:32 +0000 https://sayyeah.com/?p=15878 Web Unleashed is back for its annual edition on October 24 – 26, 2022. Web Unleashed is a three-day conference led by some of the most knowledgeable minds in front-end web development. With sessions from expert speakers, the conference will empower front-end developers with the latest tools, techniques, and technologies in the industry. Web Unleashed […]

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Web Unleashed is back for its annual edition on October 24 – 26, 2022.

Web Unleashed is a three-day conference led by some of the most knowledgeable minds in front-end web development. With sessions from expert speakers, the conference will empower front-end developers with the latest tools, techniques, and technologies in the industry. Web Unleashed will also feature discussions on end-to-end testing, responsive design, and improving web performance.

Talks We’re Excited About

Full program schedule

FITC Diversity Initiative

In partnership with the RBC Diversity Program,  FITC is offering 100 complimentary tickets for people who are part of underrepresented groups in tech.

While the deadline to apply for this upcoming event has passed, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to follow FITC’s diversity initiatives for upcoming scholarships and other opportunities.

Attend by yourself or with your whole team

Tickets start from $60 for students and $180 for individual professionals, with discounted group tickets available.

Grab your tickets

Ready to keep your audience engaged with a delightful web experience?

We provide inclusive website design solutions that welcome your audiences to engage with your content, products, and services. Bring the best of front-end development to your projects with our web standards based, usable, accessible, and inclusive work.

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]]> The Impact Of Responsive Designs https://sayyeah.com/digital-insights/the-impact-of-responsive-designs/ Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:58:00 +0000 http://sayyeah.com/sayYeah/sayYeahNewSite/wordpress/the-impact-of-responsive-designs/ We’ve just launched our brand spanking new, responsive website at sayyeah.com. Previously, we were fully reliant on Tumblr, with a single desktop template, and Tumblr’s default mobile template, which had about as much personality as you’d expect from grey text on a white background. Now with the new sayyeah.com, we’ve accounted for high resolution 20″ […]

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We’ve just launched our brand spanking new, responsive website at sayyeah.com. Previously, we were fully reliant on Tumblr, with a single desktop template, and Tumblr’s default mobile template, which had about as much personality as you’d expect from grey text on a white background.

Now with the new sayyeah.com, we’ve accounted for high resolution 20″ wide browser windows with some generally off-screen easter eggs, and addressed layout considerations across everything from 1024 pixel wide browser windows to landscape or portrait tablets, all the way down to smartphones. And we’ve designed different custom layouts for both the marketing site and our new Tumblr theme for the blog, including on mobile.

We’re excited to see how this move to responsive design captures the interest of visitors across the myriad devices that are out there.

In the meantime, Luke Wroblewski’s pulled together a handful of statistics based on responsive redesigns for Time Inc, O’Neill Clothing, and Skinny Ties.

Highlights

Time Inc has seen mobile views increase 26% while the mobile bounce rate has decreased by 26%. Together, that’s fantastic.

O’Neill has seen a 65.7% conversion rate increase on iPhone/iPod, accounting for 101.2% revenue growth.

And Skinny Ties has seen a 71.9% conversion rate increase on the iPhone, accounting for 377.6% revenue growth.

More details, including Android and non-mobile stats on Luke’s article.

This all looks promising, but Luke is quick to note that it’s only three sites:

If you’ve had success with a responsive design, my plea to you is to please share what you’ve learned. The more we can learn from each other, the better we can all get.

If you’ve got any numbers to share about your recent move to responsive site design, we’d love to hear from you at hello@sayyeah.com.

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