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

[Landis Fields]

Matt Ebb <matt@mke3.net> said:

> 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

WOW Matt! That is a good point...I feel pretty bad after having been guilty 
of this for my last tutorial...I wish that I could still change it...hmmmm.

Anyways, take care man.

Landis