Learning from a 4th Grader

Incremental Blogger: "I understand why she uses Google. But why PowerPoint? Yeah, I'm sure the teacher told her too, but I think it's because of all the Office products it gives her the nicest looking output the fastest with the greatest amount of flexibility. Pictures, text, sound, movies, animations, sequences, etc are all fairly manageable to do in a short amount of time. Word is way too restrictive in layout. OneNote does presentation poorly (although outlining text is passable). And alternatives like Publisher are document oriented. She's not authoring an article to be printed. She's sharing a story--an interactive dialog. So how about Flash? Way too complicated. PowerPoint wins."

A great reminder that anyone currently developing products is probably totally out of touch with tomorrow's market.

[via Scoble]

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shaurz, December 27, 2004

When I was a lot younger I had a lot of fun making quite complicated animations and pseudo-3D pictures in PowerPoint 97. Not your usual boring business slideshow! It wasn't ideal but it was the nearest thing to what I wanted.
I personally find there's big gaps in some areas of software which practically every software company misses.