{"id":216,"date":"2016-02-10T10:24:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/?p=216"},"modified":"2023-02-15T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:57:40","slug":"navigating-the-learning-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/navigating-the-learning-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating The Learning Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tutorials-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-218\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/navigating-the-learning-curve\/tutorials-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tutorials-1.jpg?fit=800%2C1067&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,1067\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tutorials-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tutorials-1.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tutorials-1.jpg?fit=640%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tutorials-1.jpg?resize=640%2C853\" alt=\"tutorials-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tutorials-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tutorials-1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tutorials-1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(This is a post I previously composed and posted on LinkedIn)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a great pleasure catching up on new software tools for prototyping, creating 2D and 3D games and graphics. \u00a0The software sites that I&#8217;ve tutored myself with have excellent learning sections with HD narrated videos explaining the user interface and tutorials with step by step projects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/unity3d.com\/learn\/tutorials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unity<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; this 3D software is free (at the basic level) and deep with many features. \u00a0It is popular among VR, AR and 3D game developers. \u00a0If I were a competing 3D software company, I&#8217;d be changing into my brown pants. \u00a0Their site has excellent step-by-step how to tutorials and a vibrant community.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codeschool.com\/courses\/shaping-up-with-angular-js\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shaping up with Angular.js<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Code School takes web based instructional media to a higher level than most, complete with coding tasks with hints and scoring. \u00a0The videos are fun, and just about the right length for me. \u00a0I&#8217;ve found other product\u00a0intro videos that go well over 10 minutes to be far more than &#8220;intro&#8221; and often never complete them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.axure.com\/learn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axure<\/a> &#8211; The first six intro videos are short and introduce one concept at a time. \u00a0The effect places the user at ease that this software will be simple to learn. \u00a0There are more in depth videos and web-based tutorials that include UI assets making it easy to follow along.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sketchapp.com\/learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sketch<\/a> &#8211; This inexpensive vector drawing tool is so intuitive and easy to use, I didn&#8217;t need any video tutorials! \u00a0When you start up the app, the splash screen has links to helpful content.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/proto.io\/en\/learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proto.io<\/a> &#8211; an application prototyping platform, especially useful for mobile app prototyping. \u00a0The free trial period provides access to their web-based prototype authoring environment, with videos from beginner to advanced levels. \u00a0There is a spaces.proto.io gallery area where users share projects, so you can open them and see exactly how they were done.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisionapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inVision<\/a> &#8211; Web-based prototyping tool, similar to proto.io, and\u00a0seems to be easier to learn. \u00a0Maybe there are less features than proto.io, I just have not explored it as deeply. \u00a0It has a simple commenting mode for sharing prototypes amongst design teams for gathering reviews and feedback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, there are also many helpful software tutorials on YouTube and Vimeo. \u00a0The only thing they cannot teach you is how to prioritize\u00a0your time and attention with all these awesome new tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is a post I previously composed and posted on LinkedIn) It&#8217;s been a great pleasure catching up on new software tools for prototyping, creating 2D and 3D games and graphics. \u00a0The software sites that I&#8217;ve tutored myself with have excellent learning sections with HD narrated videos explaining the user interface and tutorials with step&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tutorials-1.jpg?fit=800%2C1067&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73ygx-3u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hankgrebe.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}