Screencast tutorials

Since bandwidth availability has improved, the last few years have seen more videos and screencam/screencast tutorials on websites, for both marketing and training purposes. They're getting easier to make and deliver, with more sophisticated purpose built software, some of which is cheap or even free.
Tutorials featuring a video capture of screen activity, have been a stock elearning item in the

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50 Ways to experience the web - Designing for ALL possibilities

There may be 50 ways to leave your lover and 100 ways to skin a cat, but what web designers are worried about these days is the perpetually increasing number of ways in which users might be viewing their sites...From computer ubergeeks to "12:00 Flashers" (every appliance in their house flashes 12:00*), users are coming at websites in a growing variety of ways. They may be using a screen reader

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Data -> Information -> Knowledge -> Wisdom

Understanding the difference between data, information, knowledge and even wisdom, and how a designer can participate in the transformation from one to the other, is a critical part of creating learning experiences.Allow me to coin a phrase (originally invented by my endocrinologist, Dr. John O'Dae) -- we're now living in a society characterized by data-rich ignorance. Have you ever spent hours

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Adobe Captivate - job opp

Adobe Captivate (previously Macromedia) is a handy no-programming-required training development tool for creating subtitled/narrated tutorials, simulations and demonstrations. We've used it for simple, try-it-yourself software training tutorials and how-to's to help students use our LMS, CMS and wiki.Here's a contract job opportunity in Sydney for a developer with Captivate experience. This was

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Design Essentials: HCI, User Experience and Usability

HCI, User Expereince, User-centred Design, Usability, Information Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Accessibility and Univesral Design...it gets hard to know where one starts and the other ends. The usability of all this termenology is sorely lacking in good information design. There seems to be so much overlap, and redundancy and is there really difference among them? If so

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