40 Best Practices for Adobe Captivate 2019

By Wayne Pascall

Use these best practices to increase your productivity, efficiency and quality in Captivate projects. These 40 tips are divided into 5 categories:

1. Achieving Consistency - Tips for achieving consistency in the look of buttons, images, fonts and the placement of objects in the project
2. Limiting Rework - Why reinvent the wheel? Learn ways to reduce your work load and make life easier for you in your Captivate projects
3. Time-Saving Tips - These tips will save your hours of development time. Accomplish more in less time
4. Preventing Costly Blunders - These best practices will help you avoid blunders that can give you more rework or ruin a project
5. Achieving High Quality - Achieve the highest quality possible in Captivate projects by following these best practices

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wayne Pascall
• Release date: Jul 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223648413

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40 Best Practices for Adobe Captivate 2019

Wayne Pascall

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Contents

1.Achieving Consistency

2.Limiting Rework

3.Time-Saving Tips

4.Preventing Costly Blunders

5.Achieving High Quality

Chapter one

Achieving Consistency

#1 – Use Templates

Having a style guide or template is essential for consistency in your project. Templates give all elements of your project a consistent and professional appearance, automates the design of new elements in your project, saving you lots of time and money from less rework. Templates will create standardized placeholders for different elements on your screens. Later, you can substitute those placeholders with your content. I highly recommend that your first step should be establishing how you want your project to look (size, color of elements, fonts, media etc.) then building templates around those specifications and have every designer in your project build their work from the templates.

Templates are especially important for very complex projects with several designers on a team, some of whom may be working remotely. When working on eLearning projects with many teams or with a huge design team, it is critical to balance creativity with consistency. Even if you are working alone on an eLearning project, with the flexibility to be creative, you should first decide on the details of how you want the course to look, and then build a template around those specifications. This template will be your style guide throughout the entire project. Since styles and tastes are subjective, if you leave it up to each designer in a team to choose what they want, you could end with an eLearning