alt Hacker NewsYep. And ironically, the most complex software I use - IntelliJ and davinci resolve - don’t have any onboarding at all. They’re great! The makers of resolve have some excellent video tutorials on their website and a manual that is many hundreds of pages long. But it’s up to you to search that stuff out.
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sixeyes • today at 9:30 AM
agree with your points, but damn, resolve has some strange UI patterns / key combos etc compared to other software i've used.
maybe if you're a video editor coming from years within the field, the metaphors make sense? for me, having mostly done audio stuff, it was a bit of a journey.
i dont think an onboarding thing would be the solution, though
Yeah instead of making some crappy onboarding tour, the time is better spent improving usability/discoverability of features.
So many programs still don't have a feature where yoy can just search for the menu option you need rather than going through 10 menus.