::Visually Captivated::
If you wanted to know how to save time and money on your projects and get some tips on how to effectively communicate using visuals, you should have attended the learning session on the 23rd of April, 2005 at Savvion India Ltd.
This time around there were two speakers - Kaustubh Shejwalkar from Savvion India Ltd. and Ravee Panjwani from GE.
You must have often found yourself asking the following questions:
* While working on documents I am always worried about the increasing file size as I add more and more images. What can I do to make my documents smaller in size?
* My manager wants me to reduce the number of pages - especially those that have images - so that the company can save on printing costs. How do I decide which images to keep and which to discard?
* I am always wondering how to make user guides more useful for the users. I have heard senior technical communicators saying that a document rich in visuals is more useful. How true is this?
Kaustubh answered the above questions as he spoke on “Visuals in User Documentation”. His presentation also included types of visuals and pros and cons of different image formats and points to consider while taking screen captures.
This time around there were two speakers - Kaustubh Shejwalkar from Savvion India Ltd. and Ravee Panjwani from GE.
You must have often found yourself asking the following questions:
* While working on documents I am always worried about the increasing file size as I add more and more images. What can I do to make my documents smaller in size?
* My manager wants me to reduce the number of pages - especially those that have images - so that the company can save on printing costs. How do I decide which images to keep and which to discard?
* I am always wondering how to make user guides more useful for the users. I have heard senior technical communicators saying that a document rich in visuals is more useful. How true is this?
Kaustubh answered the above questions as he spoke on “Visuals in User Documentation”. His presentation also included types of visuals and pros and cons of different image formats and points to consider while taking screen captures.
Kaustubh
In the second half of the session, Ravee captivated the audience as he demonstrated the use of the software ‘Macromedia Captivate’ to create recorded simulations and demos. Can you imagine that a software simulation - of about five minutes – that earlier took two days to create by two people (one writer and one graphic artist) can now be created by one person in less than an hour and that too without any coding? Imagine the cost saving for your company as you save time. Now you can do more than 10 five-minute simulations/demos in two days and that too alone. Ravee’s presentation also included best practices while creating simulations and was rich with a number of case studies.
Ravee
In between the presentations, the participants discussed points to consider when using images in documentation for the visually impaired persons and the need to be culturally sensitive while using colors for audience from different cultural/ethnic backgrounds. Towards the end of the presentations the participants recalled the old adage, “a picture speaks thousand words” and went home equipped with information to save thousands of bucks.
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