New Flickr Screencast

VisualLounge points to a great screencast from the Flickr folks about the new Flickr page design.

Some thoughts:

• Screencasts like this make-up an excellent training/teaching tool - that we don't need to produce (only index and make available/searchable by our community).
• Good example of best practices in screencasting - including length and how much some music helps.

Comments

[Barbara Knauff]

Best practices - I agree that brevity and pacing are a virtue; but I personally find the music less than helpful - it doesn't help me learn at all, it distracts and annoys! Learners are different! Given that, I think it's important to not make choices for them that they can't undo (such as adding an obligatory music track) - which is a general principle of good design.