[Bf-docboard] (feedback) Fw: Blender tutorial .blend files available?

[Matt Ebb]

Here's some feedback from a user regarding hotkeys in documentation. This
applies to the 2.0 Guide, rather than the docboard's work, but I thought I
might as well pass it on anyway.

Cheers

Matt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Preston @ RemodelPlus" <jpreston@remodelplus.com>
To: "Ton Roosendaal" <ton@blender.org>
Cc: <matt@mke3.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:53 AM
Subject: RE: Blender tutorial .blend files available?


> Thanks Ton and Matt.  You may want to consider adding a little explanation
> to the /product_info.php?products_id=29 page below that makes it clear
there
> are tutorials on the CD.  I looked in the Downloads section, which is
rather
> intuitive.  It really isn't possible for busy people to remember that this
> link exists when they are first exploring the site, buying the download,
and
> then maybe days or weeks later actually getting into the evaluation of the
> program.  The process needs to be more intuitive.
>
> Along with the intuitive concept of software UI design, it would be really
> nice if the manuals and tutorials would suggest the buttons to push, not
> just the hotkeys.  Hotkeys are fine if this program is the center of your
> computing world but I use some 40 programs at any particular time in life
> and it is impossible to remember them.  The buttons are there for a
reason,
> they make the UI more intuitive, easier to quickly learn, and easier for
> many, if not most, people to operate the programs.  The use of hotkeys can
> be learned later if the user decides to become more productive.  Adobe
> tutorials are terrible this way and one of the main reasons I limit my use
> of Adobe products.  Macromedia does some of the most intuitive interface
> design and tutorials in the history of computing.  Hotkeys in tutorials
are
> arrogant.  Their use states that the author is such a great expert that
> he/she knows the keys and that the program will be so useful to you that
you
> need to know them now.
>
> Not true, especially when evaluating several programs all with very
> different UI's.  Right now I have Blender, Strata 3D, and trueSpace all
> dumping their hotkeys on me.  Just try to remember which is which the next
> morning.  Only a few places in their tutorials do they specify the
buttons.
>
> - jim
> Santa Clara, California