Re: Documenting the user interface

[Maggie_Secara -at- capgroup -dot- com]

Who is your audience? What is the goal? When I "document a user interface"
I'm actually documenting the tasks an end user uses that interface to
perform. In that case, I don't just list every menu item and what it does,
I spend time pushing all the buttons to see what they do, identify tasks,
and write procedures for them. If you're cataloging the UI elements for
some other reason, you may want to go another way.



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"Kapoor, Shelly" <SKapoor -at- imf -dot- org> wrote on 01/10/2007 09:32:59 AM:

> I have to document a couple of user interfaces.  What do you thin is the
> best way to proceed? Could you please point me to some tips/ideas for
> documenting user interfaces.

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