Engage | Spotlight on Tabs Interaction

This is Part 4 of an 11-part series on Engage Interaction Types – More Than Meets the Eye.

Got content? Want to organize it into an intuitive and polished Flash-based format before you deliver it to your learners?

Enter the Engage Tabs interaction: It provides the framework for organizing your related items, and you provide the content — be it text, audio, images, .SWF or .FLV video, or links to external sources.

From the most simple use — such as outlining the various offerings your organization provides to its customers — to a more complex use — a video introduction from your sales VP followed by an overview of your new products — the Tabs interaction can be leveraged to convey just about any similar grouping of content to your users.

I created this sample Tabs interaction in about 20 minutes or so by pulling together content on a single topic: Implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done:

To get the creative juices flowing, here are some other ideas about the types of content you can group together with Tabs:

• Comparison among several products within a product line

• Members of an executive team with bios and photos
• Features of a product or service
• Definition of an acronym with each tab being a letter
• Software applications you’ll use in your job (Word, Outlook, etc.)
• Symptoms of an illness
• Cities included in your team’s new sales territory
• Outline of material to review as a supplement to your e-learning course (books with links to purchase, PDFs to download, software to install, etc.)
• Internal points of contact for escalation work flow
• Steps in a process

An 11-Part Series: Engage Interaction Types – More Than Meets the Eye

1. Engage Interaction Types – More Than Meets the Eye

2. Engage | Spotlight on Process Interaction
3. Engage | Spotlight on Labeled Graphic
4. Engage | Spotlight on Tabs Interaction
5. Engage | Spotlight on Circle Interaction
6. Engage | Spotlight on Timeline Interaction
7. Engage | Spotlight on Media Tour
8. Engage | Spotlight on FAQ Interaction
9. Engage | Spotlight on Pyramid Interaction
10. Engage | Spotlight on Guided Image
11. Engage | Spotlight on Glossary