Comments on: Screen Beans: You Had Me At Goodbye

By: LearningTimes Green Room » Blog Archive » LTGR Ep. #98: “Find a Job”

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:29:13 +0000

[...] Develop your eye. It’s a skill…work at it. Need to know what a screen bean is? Read http://www.equixotic.com/2008/01/26/screen-beans-you-had-me-at-goodbye/ and http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/why-looks-matter-in-e-learning-courses/ [...]

By: ak

ak — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:29:26 +0000

oh come-on you cannot suggest retiring something because it has been used again and again! Screen beans are simple and fun. Simple because all the other clip arts are far too distracting with stuff like shading colors etc; if I want that much info I would post a reasonable sized picture. They are fun because they add a playfulness, makes things a bit light.

The other day I saw a Prof’s webpage about presentation also chiding the use of ’screen beans’! I can understand problems with small fonts, pale colors etc but looking for the “Next Page” just because of ’screen beans’ is clearly unfair.

By the way, do you know what else has been used again and again? presentations are really old “let’s move on”, hey alphabets of English language are really really old “let’s move on”.

To quote your own words ……………. “If I see a jeans on this author in this, the year 2008, what the wearer is clearly telling me, the viewer, is this:“I got nuthin’.”

By: James

James — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:02:30 +0000

Screen beans are timeless [2]!
you said:

[...] Use the same style of clip art to maintain consistency. It will make your content look like it all belongs together [...] –> what better to do that than gudold Screen Beans?

(btw, you should giveaway your collection of ScrBeens cliparts… the rest of the world wold thank you.)

By: Deirdre

Deirdre — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:49:54 +0000

Screen beans are timeless and can be used for all sorts of purposes and to illustrate all sorts of concepts. People in professional e-learning environments don’t use them for proprietary courses anyway – I know this, I’ve worked in e-learning for years. Companies have their own libraries of graphics. For internal company presentations, particularly those explaining concepts, screen beans can be very useful and – if used properly – inject a playfulness to PowerPoint presentations that they often lack.
So I don’t agree with your point. People like screen beans for a reason, and if they’re misused or used lazily, then that’s the fault of the user.

By: Paul McKelvey

Paul McKelvey — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:44:40 +0000

Ronita —
Try http://www.astd.org They are are organization of trainers, so training content is their thing.
There is also the Society for Technical Communication at http://www.stc.org

By: Paul McKelvey

Paul McKelvey — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:43:49 +0000

Ronita —
Try http://www.astd.org They are are organization of trainers, so training content is their thing.
There is also the Society for Technical Communication at http://www.stc.org

By: Think Like a Graphic Designer & Make Your E-Learning Courses Pleasing the to Eye - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:39:49 +0000

[...] It will make your content look like it all belongs together. Also, once and for all, throw away the screen beans (unless of course you’re doing a course for [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:53:19 +0000

Hey Ronita, sorry, I don’t have any substantive info on content providers for you.

Chris

By: Ronita

Ronita — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:09:47 +0000

Hi,

I work for an elearning firm in Bangalore, India. We are looking at building a database of off the shelf content providers for different industry verticals. Would you know any content providers who have domain related content on retail / manufacturing / healthcare? Would be a great hekp if you could let me know. As mentioned we are not looking at custom course development, only off the shelf providers.

Thanks
Ronita

ronita.dutta@24×7learning.com