radical revamping of techpubs

[Technical Writer]

Again, that is a design progroblem, not a documentation problem. Good GUI design never, ever results in an interface that doesn't make sense. If it did, it wouldn't be good GUI design. On the typical large-scale project, GUI designers serve the dual function of designers and usability experts; if they crank out spiffy GUIs that fail, they won't be working very long. Business competition has a tendency to validate Darwin.http://www.tekwrytrs.com/Specializing in the Design, Development, and Production of:Technical Documentation - Online Content - Enterprise Websites> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:48:05 -0700> From: athloi at yahoo.com> Subject: RE: radical revamping of techpubs> To: tekwrytr at hotmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com> > A product can have good design, and good programming, and still be> inadequate for users.> > How can that be, you ask?> > Technically speaking, it may be doing what its creators think it> should, and it may be well-created. It may be disorganized, and it may> not address the user's needs, and that's where TWs come in.> > We are the only group who sees the application, from start to finish,> from a user perspective. Therefore we are able to offer sanity checks:> > - This interface doesn't make sense.> - Although the app is well-designed, in this context it becomes slow or> crashes, and in our view, users will come this way often.> - The task we're designing this for is too narrow/too broad.> > --- Technical Writer <tekwrytr at hotmail.com> wrote:> > > Exactly. And that is in the province of the developer, the> > programmers, and the GUI designers. Using TW to cover up poor design> > and inadequate programming is not particularly useful for> > anyone.> > http://technical-writing.dionysius.com/> technical writing | consulting | development> > __________________________________________________> Do You Yahoo!?> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com 
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