Hi! -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:58:29 -0400 > Von: "Tom Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: dev@argouml.tigris.org > Betreff: Re: [argouml-dev] ArgoUML-users website
> As Andreas points out, improving the user experience may be a better > use of time in the short term than recruiting new users. Manuals and > wikis and other resources are great, but the closer the > documentation/help is to the point of use, the more effective it will > be for users. We've got tool tips in a lot of places, but context > sensitive help would be a very useful addition. Having the app > include a live link to the online manual or even including the manual > in the download would be a good interim measure. Online manual is already displayed within Argo here. :-) There are some minor issues left to resolve (ShortCut, Localize the menu item etc). I don't have much idea, what a help window should look like at the end. My current proposal might be a tabbed pane with tabs for: manual, cookbook, Wiki(?), users-website(?) I'm not sure, if a HTML manual is the best way to go in the long run. With some XML, we could add some meta information, that could be used to organize the help a bit. Like a separated index in a second pane (like OpenOffice does it as an example). Suggestions? > Doing a good demo involves a lot more than speaking English (or any > other language) well. If you've ever seen a really good demo and a > really bad demo, you know what a big difference there can be. A > screencast is basically just a recorded demo, so you need a good demo > and a good demoer to start with. Of course, you can use editing to > allow for multiple takes which can make things a little easier than > doing it live, but editing is more work too, so it's a tradeoff. I agree 100%... > For a great demo, which includes ArgoUML by the way, check out Sean > Kelly's "Getting Your Feet Wet With Plone" where he starts with a bare > operating system, then downloads, builds, and installs Python, Zope, > Plone, Archetypes, ArchGenXML, and ArgoUML, then uses those to build a > time tracker web application and deploys it all *live* in under 20 > minutes. > http://www.archive.org/details/SeanKellyGettingYourFeetWetwithPlone > (The ArgoUML part starts at about 11:15) This is actually great! But I have 2 very minor issues with it: - The resolution of the video is a bit too poor for my shortsighted eyes. I don't expect HDTV, but it would be great, if one could read the menus on the screen etc. - Sean is a bit too quick for me. If the presentation would take 25 or 30 mins (with the same content), I'd understand it a bit better (I'm too slow, I know). > The key thing about good demos is that they tell a story. The types of > people who are interested in reverse engineering may be the same as > people who are just learning UML or modeling, which implies multiple > demos to highlight different uses of the tool. Just going through > the various features one by one will be boring and make for a poor > demo. Of course! The demo shouldn't just demonstrate features, but what you can do with them... --<snip>-- Ciao, Andreas -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
