Storyline: To Button Set or Not To Button Set

We had a conversation the other day about Articulate Storyline's button sets.  I love button sets.  They give you the function of a radio button, but allow you to use whatever item you want:  buttons, shapes, images, whatever!  

Part of the discussion revolved around when you should use a button set. I like to use button sets when I need to display smaller amounts of information in 'chunks'.  When I say a 'smaller amount of information', I mean any content that requires less space than 1/2 of your slide.  It's a fun way to get rid of those bullet points, too.  Remember white space (or blank space) is your friend--so don't squish information into a button set shape that should be on a slide or a layer.

To learn how to create a button set, see Jeanette's most excellent tutorial.

Here's an example:

After inserting each character, a 'selected' state is created for each one.  Then the characters are all selected and grouped as a button set.  When you click on one character, it's 'selected' state shows; clicking on a second character 'selects' that character and 'unselects' the first character.  Easy, peasy.

Since ranching is a good chunk of my life, cattle hold a special place in my heart.  They're like part of the family.  So here's an example using our beef cattle:

 Clicking on each of the breed 'tabs' allows you to view that tab's 'selected' state which contains the breed information.  In the image above, the 'Hereford' tab is selected--just in case you're not a breed identification guru.


Storyline's button sets are easy to create and they're a pretty cool way to present course content.

How do you use button sets?