Top 5 App UX Design Tools for Newbie Designers

As a new designer when you decide to work on the UX it was the decision when you take steps to the world of technology which offer you immense opportunity. User experience (UX) design has become a massive part of working in the design sector. UX designers are all about providing the imagination on the screen. UX design is displayed with the information they’re looking for in the easiest, cleanest, and most intuitive way possible – whether that be a […]

Publishing Content – Items not displaying correctly

Hi, My project is a non-responsive type. Attached is my settings.  Now, in prior projects I’ve published, there were no issues.  For some reason, in this project, there are a bunch of slides, that have issues with text appearing on slides, the animations are delayed, and narration text boxes not changing.  So, I’m not sure if I’m missing something. Any feedback would great be appreciated.

Audio not playing on one slide

I have a Captivate project where the first slide has audio to introduce the project.  Then it proceeds to the next slide where students click on various buttons to learn more about a particular topic.  There is also audio on the slides with each topic, but no audio on the slide they click on.  For some reason, the audio does not play on the first slide.  It proceeds to the next slide, then when the buttons are clicked it plays […]

My first Captivate Project!

My first Captivate Project! I don’t feel I have a lot to contribute – most of the blogs featured here are written by eLearning professionals or Adobe Evangelists whereas I am a total beginner. The following is my first experience using Captivate:- I didn’t have a clue where to start but I had a deadline – approximately 3 weeks and no prior knowledge (not even PowerPoint)! Pre-production I created a storyboard for the workshop including all the elements and the […]

Adobe Captivate 2017: Creating Responsive Simulations

Learn how to create responsive simulations using Adobe Captivate 2017 including all three modes and they are:
Demo
Training
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Unusual Use of Shared Actions

Even if you are a frequent user of shared actions, you may be unaware of the use cases described in this blog post. It can help you save time.

Responsive eLearning with Captivate 2017 – Part 9: Using responsive text

In this 14-part blog series, so far we’ve learned how to create a responsive project, rescale it, add Fluid Boxes to the slides, add objects to the Fluid Boxes, apply background fill, and modify the properties of the Fluid Boxes. We also learned how to convert Fluid Boxes to Static Fluid Boxes and mark some of the objects or Fluid Boxes as optional. Now let’s learn how to work with text in responsive projects. When you add text to Fluid […]

Water and Fire? Fluid Box with Rollovers

In a non-responsive project with HTML output you can add rollover items. For a non-responsive project with Fluid Boxes that is impossible. This post offers two suggestions to mimick a rollover, which will only appear when using a mouse on desktop/laptop screens, not on mobile devices (not even with a stylus).

Tip to Keep Audio from Replaying When Navigating Back to a Menu Slide

Some projects may require the use of a menu slide. This slide also may contain audio and buttons that allows the user to jump from the menu slide to another section and back. Issue: The user navigates back to the menu slide and the audio replays.  If you do not want the audio replay on return, below is a tip that may resolve this issue. In Advanced Actions Variables Create a new User variable (Example: audioOneplay) with a Value of […]

(re)New to Captivate

So I’m not exactly NEW to Captivate; I used Captivate 6/7 for some projects in graduate school and on my first (part-time) job as an instructional designer after graduation, but haven’t really had an opportunity to work with it since then. I’m hoping to get back in the saddle and re-learn the latest version, however. I’m currently the Digital Learning Specialist in the Center for Teaching Excellence at a small college in Lawrenceville, GA, where I work as a faculty […]

Responsive eLearning with Captivate 2017 – Part 8: Using Optional Fluid Boxes

In the first seven parts of this blog-series, we’ve learned how to create a responsive project, rescale it (if required), add Fluid Boxes to the slides, add objects to the Fluid Boxes, apply background fill, and modify the flow, wrap, and alignment properties of the Fluid Boxes. We also learned how to convert Fluid Boxes to Static Fluid Boxes. Now let’s learn about the workflow to mark some of the objects or Fluid Boxes as optional. If you are planning […]

Force Clicking Hotspots: Comparison 2 Workflows

Compares two workflows to use hotspots for extra information, and tracking the clicking to show a Next button when all spots have been tapped or clicked. The old workflow with Show/Hide objects, and the newer workflow using one Multistate object.