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If you're building a product tour, consider making an animated GIF screencast to demo your use case. Yesterday I wrote a tutorial on how to easily create one o
by dergachev 14y ago
If you're building a product tour, consider making an animated GIF screencast to demo your use case.
Yesterday I wrote a tutorial on how to easily create one on OS X using just free tools: Quicktime Player, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.
https://gist.github.com/4627207 https://gist.github.com/4627207
(Animated GIFs might also be useful for bug reports).
- vineet 14y agoFor our company we experimented with using about a dozen animated GIFs - but found them to be a little hard to deal with. We replaced them with 2-3 short videos and were happier. Now these product tours might be a good thing to add.
- dergachev 14y agoIMHO a 45-90 second video done right might the ideal medium for a product overview. But most are way longer, and suck, so I never click on them. GIFs auto play, and so might be good medium to force a user to see a 7-15 second clip of how a feature works. Obviously you should ensure that only 1 is ever showed at a time. I also find there's something hypnotic about a silently looping sped-up clip, though I don't know if this can be used to increase conversions. ;)
- vineet 14y agoYeah, we did not like the autoplay part and the hypnotic effects.