Hi and welcome to softwaremenumaps.com. We provide complete software menu mapping for many of the most popular software titles in use today.

The main objective of any set of Menu Maps is to make learning new software programs a much easier and much faster and much more enjoyable past time than it currently is.

It's definitely no secret that learning new software has always been a big problem and getting bigger all the time because software gets bigger with every new release. To be fair, many have tried to minimise the frustration through developing tutorials, training DVD's, books and all manner of other products designed to help you learn and master a whole range of software titles.

But it's not enough, something is still missing, or the problem wouldn't still exist!

We decided to find out why, in spite of all the help currently available, learning new software is still such a difficult and frustrating task and hopefully go a lot further towards solving the problem.. and we're pretty sure we have...

During our research it quickly became evident that the reason learning new software is such a 'pain' is because, in short...., you can't 'see' it!.. By that we mean you can't ever get a bird's eye view of the whole program all at once, so you can build up a mental picture in your minds eye of exactly what it is your dealing with!

It's almost all 'hidden behind your screen' and bit's of it appear and dissappear on and off your computer screen with every mouse click!

Software these days is getting big...in fact some applications are getting huge. This is making it more and more difficult for new users to climb onboard and get up to speed using the same methods others used when these programs were less than a tenth of the size they are today.

Truth is, the old trial and error methods used then were used cause there was nothing better.

Software is a control panel. You adjust and tweak controls that are sometimes buried deep in the program menu structure in order to get the desired output or effect you want.

An airplane cockpit is also a control panel. If the cockpit designer decided it would be a good idea to hide almost all of the controls from the pilot - would that be a good or a bad idea? Would it be easier or more difficult for the pilot to learn how to fly the new plane using the new 'hidden cockpit control panel', or would the pilot prefer to have all the controls laid out neatly and logically in front of him, at arms length?

That's what's called a 'no-brainer!'

We have come to the conclusion that if you want to make something difficult or frustrating to learn, then only let the 'learner' see a fraction of it at a time. Drip feed her little bits of disjointed information.. a little at a time. Hide the rest. Hide 99% of whatever it is she is trying to learn. Make her have to search for it. Eventually, when she finds it, make her have to find out for herself, by having to search somewhere else, what it's for and what it does and how to use it. Oh,.. and give her a four inch thick manual... to 'help' her out!... sound familiar?

 

On no account make things easy by giving her a map of the complete program, a map that visually shows her whats in the program,.. and visually shows her excactly where everything is in the program and also has short, brief, to-the-point explanations of what everything does in the program... with step by step procedures on how to use all the tools in the tool box,... ALL on the map.  -  now that would be making it far too easy,...

 

...so that's exactly what we do,... and we do it with Menu Maps!

Software desperately needs better visibility of all of it's controls, but it can't be done via your computer screen simply because of the limited space. So we solve the problem by providing 100% program visibility on a full set of Menu Maps.

Menu Maps are your software cockpit. They give you the full 100% visibility of all your controls and show you how they are all positioned relative to each other, as well as tell you what everything is and what everything does!

Using Menu Maps our customers get familiar with the whole program much faster and a lot easier. Having acquired familiarity from the Menu Maps they then switch on their computers and find themselves already way high up on the learning curve. From then on everything else is down to experience and developing your own preferable work flow.

We strongly believe that Menu Maps are a major advantage for new users trying to get up to speed with new software programs.

We're committed to making software as easy as possible for you to learn by providing Menu Maps for a growing number of the most popularly used programs in use today. We're producing more Menu Map sets all the time, so please, check back often.

Our Menu Maps, now make learning new software doable, easy, fast and believe it or not......enjoyable!

Please enjoy the site, and bookmark us so you can check back soon.

Yours sincerely,

Jeff Brown

Managing Director

Software Menu Maps Ltd.