If you haven’t seen the video “Twitter in Plain English” yet check it out:
http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter
What I really want to post here though is how cool I think Common Craft is. This is one of those “why didn’t I think of that?” sites for me. First of all it’s a two person husband and wife team which is super neat. Second of all it’s a totally unique and straight-forward substitute to boring manuals or documentation. You can scream “RTFM” at the top of your lungs but the fact is no one reads. No one even reads good books these days so how can you expect them to read about your boring site or app documentation? However watching a 2 minute video on how to use your site or app is much easier, more fun and gets the job done better imo.
Obviously these videos are simple explanations and wouldn’t work as well for something like say… Photoshop or another complicated program. However I’m pretty impressed with Common Craft’s work. My favorite is when they use fishing line to animate things like emails being sent. Classic low tech goodness!
Oh and this is just genius:
