The products were generally disorganized, confusing and unfocused. What these products fail to recognize is that interactive multimedia is an entirely new medium with its own unique possibilities and limitations. The old content must be redesigned to work well in the new medium. Rather than simply dumping the text onto a CD-ROM with a few multimedia elements sprinkled in, I wanted to create a brand new multimedia experience that taught typing with the same pedagogy of the text. To accomplish this I needed a strong central theme to serve as a foundation upon which I could build the entire user experience.
Students typically regard typing as one of the most boring subjects available.
They traditionally associate typing with secretarial duties. I needed a theme to vault over these traditional hurdles. We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing every aspect of our lives. Computers are quickly becoming everyday tools, but it goes deeper than that. An entirely new world is being created in cyberspace on the Internet.