This Don Norman demonstration should not be used from the CD-ROM. Drag the folder ╥Don Norman folder╙ to your hard disk.
You should also install the Norman Fonts into your Fonts folder. QuickTime¬ and Sound Manager 3.0 should also be installed on your machine.
This demonstration only includes up to chapter 1 of The Design of Everyday Things. If you try to go to a page or section later in the book you will be told that it is not available.
Here is some help on using the program:
Important Tips
Ñ To go from page to page, press the right or left arrow on the keyboard.
Ñ To display the Tool Palette, which contains several navigational aids, click the red toolbox in the lower left of the screen. The toolbox is displayed once you are beyond the Table of Contents page.
Ñ To return to a page you visited recently, hold down the mouse over ╥Backtrack╙ (on the Tool Palette) and select the desired page. To go back to the page you just came from, click on Backtrack.
Ñ To play video segments, click film strip icon. (In most cases, you can just click the picture of Don Norman).
Ñ To play audio segments, click the audio icon. (In most cases, you can just click the picture of the tape recorder).
Ñ To make annotations and glossary links visible, move the mouse to the top of the screen and select ╥Annotations╙ from the Books menu. Words that are underlined with gray are linked to annotations or glossary definitions. To see the annotation or glossary definition, click the underlined word.
Ñ To hear Don explain how to navigate the CD, go to the ╥The Making of the CD-ROM: How it Works╙ section of the Introduction.
Ñ The book icon which is displayed on the Table of Contents page is a bookmark which ╥remembers╙ where you were the last time you used the CD. To go to the last page you were reading before you quit the program, click the bookmark.
Ñ Please read the other Help sections for more information on these and other topics.
About the Tool Palette
The Tool Palette contains several helpful navigational aids. You can display the Tool Palette in three ways:
Ñ Click the red toolbox in the lower left of the screen.
Ñ Click in the left margin.
Ñ In the Books menu, select ╥Tool Palette.╙
To display a map of the book, which shows your current location and allows you to select a section from a Table of Contents, click Map. To close the map, click Map again.
To go directly to a specific page, click Page and enter the desired page number.
To go to the next or previous page, click the right or left arrow beneath Page.
To find a word or phrase, click Find and enter the text you wish to search for. Select the sections of the text you wish to search, whether you wish to find display occurrences of the word in context, and click Find. For more information about the Find feature, see the help topic ╥Finding Words and Phrases.╙
To mark a page, click Mark. To go to the next or previous marked page, click the right or left arrow beneath Mark. To choose from a list of marked pages, hold down the mouse over Mark and select from the list. For more information, see the help topic ╥Marking Pages.╙
To highlight text, select the desired text and choose the desired color. For more information, see the help topic "Highlighting Text."
Navigating the Books
To turn pages, use the right or left arrows on the keyboard, or click the right or left arrows beneath Page on the Tool Palette.
To go directly to a specific page, click the page number on the screen or click Page on the Tool Palette. Then, enter the desired page number.
To go another chapter or section, hold down the mouse over the chapter heading at the top of the screen and select a chapter or section from the displayed list. Or, click Map on the Tool Palette and select the desired section.
To return to the page you visited most recently, click Backtrack on the Tool Palette. To choose from a list of pages you╒ve visited recently, hold down the mouse over Backtrack and select from the displayed list.
To see a visual representation of where you are in the books, move the mouse to the top of the screen and select ╥Progress Gauge╙ from the Books menu. To jump to another location in the book, click the desired location on the Progress Gauge.
Playing Audio and Video Segments
Video segments are denoted by a film icon, and are usually accompanied by a picture of Don Norman. Audio segments are denoted by an audio icon, and are usually accompanied by a picture of tape recorder.
To begin a clip, click the film strip icon or the audio icon. (If there is a picture of Don, or a picture of a tape recorder, you may click that instead.)
To display the transcript for that clip, hold down the mouse over the picture or video clip while it╒s playing and select ╥Show Movie Transcript.╙
To advance or rewind the clip, hold down the mouse over the picture or video clip and select the desired command.
Finding Words and Phrases
To search for a word that appears on the page, hold down the mouse over the word and select ╥All Occurrences╙ or ╥All in Context.╙ (This will search in all of the books. To narrow the search, see below.)
Searching for all occurrences will display only the page numbers on which the word occurred; searching for occurrences in context will display a few words on each side of the found word.
To go to a page on which the word was found, click the page number in the displayed window.
To search for a phrase, or for a word that doesn╒t appear on the current page, or to narrow a search to specific books, follow these steps:
1. On the Tool Palette, click Find.
2. Enter the text you wish to search for.
3. Select which books you wish to search. (The default is to search all of the books.)
4. Click Find.
The results will be displayed in a window showing the number of times the word was found in each section. To display the results for each section, click its title. To go to a page on which the word was found, click the page number in the window.
Taking Notes
To write notes in the margin of the text, follow these steps:
1. Position the mouse so that the cursor is just to the left of the text.
2. Press the mouse button and drag downward. A black line will appear along the side of the text.
3. Release the mouse. A window will be displayed, in which you can write your notes.
To find, print, or export notes that you╒ve written in the margin, hold down the mouse at the left of a column of text and select the desired option from the displayed list.
To delete a note, hold down the mouse over the black line, drag it away from the margin, and release the mouse.
Marking Pages
To mark the page you╒re on, click Mark on the Tool Palette, or click in the upper-right corner of the page. To unmark, click either location again.
To mark a page with a message, hold down the mouse over Mark on the Tool Palette, select ╥Mark this page with a message,╙ and enter a short note.
To find the next or previous marked page, click the arrows to the right or left of Mark.
To select from a list of marked pages, hold down mouse on Mark and select desired page.
Highlighting Text
To highlight a section of text, follow these steps:
1. Make sure the Tool Palette is displayed.
2. Use the mouse to select the desired text.
3. Click the desired text color.
To ╥name╙ a highlight color for future reference, follow these steps:
1. Hold down the mouse over the color you wish to name.
2. Select ╥Change color name.╙
3. Enter a name for that color. You can change the name at any time by following these steps again.
To find text that you╒ve highlighted, hold down the mouse over the color and select from the displayed list.
To clear the highlight from a section of text, select the text and click Clear.
To clear all the highlights from a page, click Clear when no text is selected.
