The importance of having some fun
July 6th, 2009 by Anita Filed Under Faculte
The last three weeks I have been working on creating video tutorials for our broadcast studio. I am also working on building a written help section and embed the tutorials in it.
Instruction manuals might be, in my point of view, the most boring thing ever created. I’ve got a t-shirt that says “when everything else fail, try the instructions” – and that is definitely how I do it! Actually, there is only one manual I’ve ever bothered reading properly, and it came with an external harddisk. It was a very thin manual, and it said in (for anyone who has read The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) large, friendly letters : “This won’t take long!” I fell in love with it instantly.
So, how in the world have I survived the last couple of weeks, not drying up and suffocating from all the instructions? The answer is quite simple, and it was the same one Miki gave me when I tried to figure out how to do the tutorials: “Fun is good”
Who says instructions needs to be dry and boring? After getting Mikis statement that fun is allowed working with Faculte, creating a ton of broadcasts was hard work – but, exactly, fun! I loved to be able to add stupid jokes like the annotation pen attacking me, drawing lipstick on a cow and, when demonstrating recording from webcam, having to fix my hair before clicking Record. I realize that a whole lot of these jokes may not make anybody laugh – but it made the work fun. And, if I have succeeded, it will make watching the tutorials both informative AND fun!
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