Gary Schnabl wrote:
Our documents have way too many graphics. Why do we have screen captures for showing simple tasks? There's too much hand-holding. Our readers are capable of doing tasks without having to screen capture as many as we do. There should be a balance, and only screen capture those tasks that inform, instead of verifying them.
Unfortunately, many people do want, and need, lots of screen captures, while others do not want, or need, them. And those who need and want lots of pictures are among the people who would not cope with linked graphics.
Many people are very visual; they learn more, and retain more information, from pictures than from words. Removing pictures can seriously diminish the value of the books for those people. (And it has nothing to do with intelligence; there's a lot of literature on the topic of how people learn. I am among those who learn better with pictures, and I am also in a high intelligence range. In a similar way, some people learn better by being taught in a classroom situation, while others learn as well if not better from reading.)
People who don't need the graphics can skip them. People who do need graphics will be disadvantaged without them. There is no easy solution to that dilemma.
That said, certainly some of the graphics could go, or be cropped to better show the main point... as I mentioned in a note yesterday.
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