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Re: The coming predominance of user experience andtechnicalcommunications
Subject:Re: The coming predominance of user experience andtechnicalcommunications From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:'techwr-l' <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:56:31 -0700 (PDT)
At my grocery store, at the You-Do-The-Work scanner, I have to select the "Bakery" icon to scan a vegetable. Let me see some dumb old cow handle that one!
Richard Lewis
From: "Al Geist"
> This raises the question, if a cow can be trained to use an automatic milker
> without a fancy GUI, how come us technically oriented technical writers
> can't get the hang of a self-serve checkout machine at Home Depot?
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