A newbie putting it out there — enjoy my first Captivate project! What do you think I could add or change to improve?
Drumroll please… my first Adobe Captivate project!
For this project, I created a call center training for a fictional women’s wellness company. I initially created the project as a responsive project but made the decision halfway through to focus on a desktop-sized output to constrain the variables in my learning.
Soon, I will be posting an article soon summarizing all I learned (and wish I had known) stumbling my way through this first endeavor.
I’d to get constructive feedback and input as this is my first project. What do you think I could do to make this better?
All the best,
Cynthia
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Congratulations with your first project. I appreciate that you did not use a default playbar since it is clearly a project with branching, where the default playbar is not working well at all. The custom navigation consists mainly of a ‘home’ button, which looks like a next button. Maybe you could have chosen a less confusing icon for the Home button, even add a tooltip or an audio explanation about using the course? You could have used even the logo as button (see further).
Contrast between characters and background is great. You may disagree, but I find it tiring for my eyes to have to look at a bright white background. That may be due to the fact that I spend too much time on screens (even this portal has such a bright background. You could have published the file as Scalable HTML, so that it fills my big screen, but I know you’ll answer that images and font can get blurry. Personally I would have preferred bigger font size, and maybe sans serif instead of serif fonts. Some studies claim it is easier to read on screens, whereas on paper it is the contrary.
I appreciate that you added some audio clips, not easy with the QSP slides because they didn’t provide a way to replace a slide audio clip. It is a first step, audio has good quality, but …. why not use more audio? I learned from my students that once audio is added, written text becomes less important, but learners will expect audio all over the course (more work). For some slides where it is not distracting you could use music, doesn’t need to be always VO.
You offer the freedom to revisit slides, well done! Maybe in some months try to limit forced listening to the first visit? That is a bit related with the first comment about navigation: provide more than only a home button. I am talking here about the nicely animated slide with audio.
From your other blog I know you are a Photoshop fan (my first Adobe love as well, did teach PS for 20 years). However for the logo, which looks like a drawing, did you use a SVG instead of a bitmap image? Hope so.
Hi Lieve! Thanks so much for your feedback – so very appreciated!
I’m still playing around with navigation and branching. I think, perhaps, where I steered myself off course was combining slides from a few asset projects, all with different masters. When I’d add a button to one master, it wouldn’t be on another master, etc.
I like the idea of including audio to explain navigation features too – thanks!
Good idea, too, on the scalable HTML. I published this as a responsive project and do not see the checkbox for “scalable HTML” the way I do when publishing non-responsive projects. I wonder why?
I agree, too, about using more audio. I thought perhaps the user may be impatient sitting through audio, but I think I may just be an impatient person and non-representative of the greater population LOL.
I did use SVGs for images, exporting them from Photoshop as SVGs rather raster. At some point, sometime, I’ll learn Illustrator and all will be well. In the meantime I’m holding it together with digital bandaids.
Thanks again for your feedback. So very appreciated!!!
Great shout out for your attitude, Cynthia!!
Your use of QSP slides (and same for some of my trainees) , combined with my (rather deep?) understanding of themes have inspired me already to write a couple of blogs, at this moment only in the community here (but I will have them soon in my personal blog as well). I will post the links in a separate comment.
Personally I am also a Photoshop fan, but the new SVG feature of 11.5 has pushed me at re-learning Illustrator which I have left alone since a while. Also have blogged already, and you may expect more simple tutorials for using AI to create assets for Captivate.
I have posted some links in another comment, but it is waiting for moderation. Sighing…. as if I ever posted spam!
Here are the links to using QSP slides, at this moment only for non-responsive projects. Fluid Boxes tips are prepared in another blog. It is a common misunderstanding of newbies that they need to create responsive project for deployment on all devices, which is not true. May examples on my blog ar rescalable non-responsive projects. Not ideal for all situations, but that is the same for Flujid Boxes, they are also not suited for every project.
https://elearning.adobe.com/2019/09/source-destination-theme-qsp-slides/
https://elearning.adobe.com/2019/09/branding-inserted-qsp-slide-tips/
Thanks for sharing your first Captivate project! Great to see you have different kind of slides type as part of your first project!
Sure, took advantage in a great way of the new opportunity to use QSP-slides from the Assets panel.
Thanks! Yes, I’m building out my ID portfolio and wanted to showcase a variety of “see what I can do!” things. The QSP was great for seeing options of what I could include.
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