RE: Documenting the user interface

["Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>]

>A LONG time ago, someone once suggested that one of the key aims of
>technical documentation was to make the Support staff redundant. I'd
>suggest
>these days that the job of the UI designer is to make US redundant!

Which is why I am always very encouraging when any of the UI developers
here come to me to name fields and write concise on-screen help text...

The job never ends.  It only changes.

Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author

exony

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