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was best to record one single take as opposed to multiple takes for the same video.

This reduced some of the technical and environmental issues I discussed.

Figure 4.13 Feedback from our school librarian J. Kingston after a think aloud

session – highlighting poor audio issue, January 12, 2018

Figure 4.14 Screenshot of a reshoot to correct poor audio and camera angles issues
as communicated via email from Jane Kingston, our school librarian

Creating a user-friendly multimedia resource required user-testing and I found the

think-aloud sessions ideal for this task. I wanted the ‘Parent Learning Zone’ to

contain only what was necessary to communicate the purpose of the resource (Figure
4.15). I used aspects of the minimalist approach to my design, a philosophy that

focuses on the idea that you must design around the content and include only what is
completely necessary. I wanted to build just enough user interface around the main

content, the reading videos, that would allow the user to navigate the resource with
ease. As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, “Perfection is achieved, not when

there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” (Saint-

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