kathy@wrcola.UUCP (Kathy Vincent) (01/26/88)
A diskette is lying on your desk. Maybe it arrived in the mail or
maybe a salesperson or trainer put it there or maybe it came with
something you just bought. Maybe it's a tutorial for a piece
of software. Maybe it's a simulation of some job you'll be performing.
Maybe it's a training diskette. Maybe it's just an info diskette -
an "electronic brochure." Or maybe it's a point-of-sale diskette
and you're sitting in front of a PC in a trade show, about to pop
the diskette into the PC and take a look at it.
You're the end user, the person for whom the diskette has been
prepared, the person by whom the diskette was intended to be USED.
We've all seen 'em, and we all have opinions about 'em.
What are yours? What do you like or not like about such presentations?
When do you think they are appropriate? Inappropriate? Useful?
Not useful?
I have some thoughts:
1. Cartoons are cute - but they get old fast. They are better
used in POS presentations where someone will see the diskette
once and that's it - rather than in, say, a training situation.
Graphics are important, though - a presentation can be visually
interesting without being too "cute."
2. Too much text on a screen is the pits - esp in small type.
Reading on a monitor is hard on the eyes, and if I'm going to be
doing a lot of reading, I'd rather have a book or a booklet or a
brochure - it's easier to use anyway.
3. If it's a simulation or a tutorial, I want to be able to use it
when no one else is around - back off in my own corner where I
can concentrate on it. But I probably don't think a company
can consider a sales presentation on a diskette a substitute
for personal contact.
Comments? Other thoughts?
Thanks.
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