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Re: 2014 version of 1980s "quick reference card" ?
Subject:Re: 2014 version of 1980s "quick reference card" ? From:Gregory P Sweet <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us> To:Alison Wyld <alison -dot- wyld -at- wyld-home -dot- net> Date:Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:30:47 -0500
The quick reference card is still a very, very valid and well received
medium. There are companies like Custom Guide that do lots of QRCs and
sites such as Refcardz still doing quite well.
What is your product? Is it web based? If so and you want to do something
QRC-like, but more like a tutorial, look at joyride.js which allows you to
embed procedure walk throughs in your product, and is free for commercial
use.
techwr-l-bounces+gps03=health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on
01/16/2014 05:46:23 AM:
> From: Alison Wyld <alison -dot- wyld -at- wyld-home -dot- net>
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com,
> Date: 01/16/2014 08:45 AM
> Subject: 2014 version of 1980s "quick reference card" ?
> Sent by: techwr-l-bounces+gps03=health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>
>
> Back when I started in the late 80s, I'd probably have been looking into
> doing some sort of laminated quick reference card. But I'm thinking that
> things must have moved on since then, and that its just me that is out of
> date. We're thinking perhaps of some kind of animated tutorial for new
> users, but I still think they might need ongoing support...
>
> If anyone can provide any pointers to anything interesting along those
> lines, that would be great ! (Oh yes, we're a small company, we don't
have
> much budget to invest in tools for this, obviously.)
>
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