Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Twist in the tale of Robin Hood
Robin Hood as a baddy and the Sheriff of Nottingham as the goody? Only in Hollywood!
Whatever next?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7460634.stm
There are some conventions that it just doesn't work to play with, something that designers of every kind - and including elearning developers - need to remember.
A recent newsletter from usability guru Jakob Nielsen talked about do you put the OK button first and then Cancel? Or Cancel and then OK? The answer is that you follow the convention, which happens to be different for Macs and PCs. Unless you really do want to make things difficult for users and stop them in their tracks, conventions should be flouted at your peril.
How annoying is it that when you save a Microsoft Word document in some other format it asks you do you really want to do that? and the default is No! Microsoft of course wants you to keep files in their format, but it's highly irritating.Labels: elearning, film, learning design, media, usuability
posted by Helen Whitehead 8:46 AM
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