RE: Documenting the user interface

[Peter Sturgeon <prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I'm a convert, too.

The first UI I documented, in the early '80s, was for people who were
still using paper forms.

So we worked hard to explain every key on the keyboard and every field
on the screen.

I wrote a whole paragraph on cursor keys.

But so many users today have computers, and so many applications behave
similarly--even down to keystrokes for common functions, that documents
can be light and more focused.

Advances in usability have also reduced the need to explain obtuse and
cumbersome UIs.


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> I've undergone the same conversion Gordon mentions. 
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