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Re: The coming predominance of user experience and technicalcommunications
Subject:Re: The coming predominance of user experience and technicalcommunications From:John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com> To:jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:43:21 -0400
True. They are, however, attributable to a team of designers,
programmers, and writers that collaborated to produce something that was
easy to use, well programmed, and easy to explain. That's the Holy Grail
of application development.
My 2¢,
John Garison
Candidate for STC Region 1 Director
jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com said the following on 7/25/2007 11:33 AM:
> And yet, those successful interfaces cannot be attributed to?Technical Writers.
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> Jim Shaeffer
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> Chris Borokowski wrote:
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> Technical writers look at software from the user perspective, not a
> specialized technical skill (development, QA, PM) that manages aspects
> of the software. We're the only ones who look at the whole in terms of
> who is actually using it.
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> And as much as I detest admitting it, the success of both Apple and
> Windows shows us how powerful refined interfaces can be in making
> people happier, more productive and less grumbly
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