On Jul 23, 2006, at 6:32 AM, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > > --- Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >> Before the BetterDesktop studies, other studies had >> also found that people confuse screenshots with the actual >> interface. >> <http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Ab7nx7LLa3EJ: >> www.infomanagementcenter.com/enewsletter/200411/ >> secondary.htm+%22even+fairly+sophisticated+users+were+clicking+the+gra >> phic%22> >> >> More about avoiding screenshots: >> <http://g2meyer.com/usablehelp/singles/263.html> >> >> When screenshots really are necessary, I suggest: >> * crop them to only the relevant control or window area >> * reduce them to 75% or so (as mentioned in the thread) >> * make them fade out on each side, so they look even less like a >> real window >> * make them short looping animations (about 1 fps), when >> appropriate for illustrating a process. > ... > I'm away right now -- could someone copy the salient > points and links of the above to a new bug, so we > don't forget -- file against either the Doc Handbook > or the Style Guide, I forget which one talks about > screenshots.
Done. <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348495> >> An even better approach would be to add to yelp and GTK the ability >> to walk you through the real interface without screenshots. For >> example, in a "How do I send customized letters?" help page >> for Abiword, clicking a "Guide Me" button might highlight the >> "Tools" menu, then highlight the "Mail Merge…" item in the menu once >> you opened it, then wait for you to choose a file before describing >> the next step, and so on. > > That's probably for even beyond Mallard... Perhaps. -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
