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Re: The coming predominance of user experience and technicalcommunications
Subject:Re: The coming predominance of user experience and technicalcommunications From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:10:20 -0700 (PDT)
What I hear you saying is that maintaining a strong question-asking focus is not a particuarly valuable skill (i.e., it is something that a four year old can do). If that is true, then the vast majority of developers are functioning at a one-month-old level: There is a tremendous need for the questions to be asked, and yet none of them are doing it.
From what I have observed there are two basic types of TWs: Those who realize that essential input procedure to getting a job done is often not documented or is very poorly documented and requires alot of initiative to ask alot of questions to gather it, and cube-bound professional word processors.
Richard Lewis
John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>Why do you think that technical communicators/writers have
>any more insight into what makes a better user interface than
>the people who design them now?.......
They don't
> Richard Lewis responds:
> Speaking for myself, the main value that I bring to the table is that I am a
> professional question asker. I ask lots of questions.
So does a four year old.
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