Re: The coming predominance of user experience and technicalcommunications

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I agree, and even more, I see it less as an ordered series of steps
than as a reference used in the heat of the moment. Most interfaces are
similar these days. We need to explain the specifics, and get out of
these old and tired formats.

--- Wendy Loreti <wloreti -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> I don't believe documentation will go away, but I do firmly believe
> that the
> existing format is dead.  I see it becoming much more embedded in
> applications, as an extension of the application itself, rather than
> a
> separate file invoked from the application interface.


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