Re-grading the Fusion Learning Curve

[chris]

On Sunday I spent some frustrating time wrestling with Fusion's basics.

The errors were mine in so far as I was trying to do somthing impossible and dumb.

Guilty as charged.

But my point here, and often, is that the learning curve is what we all have to climb to move from from idiocy to expertise.

The STEEPNESS of that learning curve is determined almost netirely by the design of the user interface.
I feel Fusion is recognised for it sophisticated features but also for it's treaterous learning curve.

It's very hard to get productive with it.

So, if Fusion wants many more paying & staying clients, then taming this learning curve seems to need to be a central pillar of the strategy.

These videos shoiw me being an idiot - not realising that you can't change the parameters I was trying to change without moving the points I'd locked. But the bigger point is that Fusion just sat there, being entirely unhelpful, in a way that was entirely avoidable.

I suggest that fixing THIS is more financially important than adding fantastic new features that few will use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8QWGrnGyJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv5PwSfypHE

I wonder if Autodesk has a histogram showing - of all those who use Fusion 360 - how the expertise distributes?
Are the bulk of us experts? Beginners? Or what? I'd love to see that analysis.

[matt.pooley]

Hi Chris,

It doesn't provide a histogram across all users (that I've found), but you might be interested in this Fusion Add-in that compares your product usage to others in a range of domains. 

Regards,

Matt

[chris]

Thanks for your suggesiton Matt, but this is far from what I was interested in.

In my view, Autodesk would do far better investing its resources in making the F360 UI into a self-training space.

For sure, the company will have some data on their customers' aggregate profile, though they may not ewant to share it with the public, which is of course, understandable.

Matt, does Autodesk maintian a public list of bugs, fixes and schedules?
Does it run a forum for customer to influence priorities i nhow F360 resources are invested?

Thanks
Chris