This is something that I've always felt Foundation needed.
I'm a side-project hacker, and as much as I love Twitter Bootstrap I always wanted something different. I used Foundation for a few projects but found myself gravitating back to Bootstrap because of the abundance of tutorials that have built up my familiarity.
The structure of these lessons is great - probably more useful than Bootstrap 'getting started' pages.
The use of JSFiddle style learning is awesome.
The only thing I don't like is that it requires email/password - however given it's not built by Zurb I can see why the makers have gone down that path. Perhaps a better method would have been to only ask for those details once a user wants to go beyond the first few lessons?
Thanks for the honest feedback, we tried to place a lot of emphasis on interactivity and problem-solving based learning.
Asking to create an account later makes sense, the lessons are open to try without creating an account here http://www.tryfoundation.io/learn/. We wanted users to create accounts in order for them to save progress and code especially for further bigger projects, thoughts?
I did not see that link initially, I think it would be worth a/b testing a version where the option to play without signing up button is visually as dominant as the signup.
Visitors that know that they don't know enough will always signup. I knew that I'd like to learn more Foundation, so immediately submitted my email address. But I would suggest that a decent slice of your users don't know what they don't know - ie. that there is a Bootstrap alternative that is just as flexible, powerful, and easy to learn. Getting those people three steps down the path before giving them a hurdle of signup would, in my opinion, result in a larger user count and greater project impact in the long run.
The structure of these lessons is great - probably more useful than Bootstrap 'getting started' pages. The use of JSFiddle style learning is awesome.
The only thing I don't like is that it requires email/password - however given it's not built by Zurb I can see why the makers have gone down that path. Perhaps a better method would have been to only ask for those details once a user wants to go beyond the first few lessons?