The Design And Research Of The Tutorial Attaching To 3D Design Software

With the rapid development of design Industry in recent years, more and more 3D design softwares have come into the horizon and working environment of designers. Those softwares supply powerful technical support for the process of design creation, greatly augmenting the efficiency of design work. So they have become indispensible assistants of designers. However, It is because of the elevating performance of those softwares that learning how to use them becomes increasingly hard. It seems that those tools put huge obstacles on the way of their learners, which, of course, reduces the factual popularity of the 3D design softwares.This research begins with the investigation on how to improve the learnability of 3D design softwares, overall studying the design principle and the user needs of the tutorial attaching to the 3D design softwares, systematically articulating the design philosophy and the methods of creation, successfully implementing the interactive prototype design and user interface design, and finally testing and improving the design outcome with the method of user testing. The final fruit fulfills all preliminary objectives, and will be presented in the form of graphical user interface and simulating animation.This article describes the whole contents, design process, research fruits and experience in detail, and it elucidates the meaning, methods and harvest of this research in the order of objective determination, user research, plan designing and user testing. The article covers the following contents: (1) the methods and contents of user research; (2) the determination of user's existing and latent needs; (3) the analysis of user's behavior of using 3D softwares; (4) the analysis of psychology of user's learning; (5) the division of the hierarchy of teaching information; (6) the determination of functions of interface; (7) the usability testing of interface; (8) the generalization of design experience of tutorial design.