Re: Tech writers still necessary, but performing poorly

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I just had this discussion on a nonprofessional basis with my
wife.  We're shopping for appliances for our new home and
she keeps showing me brochures of wall ovens with controls
that seem better suited to the starship Enterprise.  I keep
telling her I want an oven with a dial that goes from off to
the maximum temperature, a button to turn the light on and 
off and some simple way of activating the self-clean cycle
(I used to have just such an oven in my kitchen in the 80's).
It seems that such ovens are no longer even made.

Also, I'm still on the lookout for a washer and dryer that
has controls with some sort of "stupid husband mode" 
that I can just set for whites, darks and colors and be 
done with it.  Also seems to have gone the way of the 
manual oven.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Borokowski" <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> Any time I see a cell phone or digital camera that comes with 250 page
> manual, I want to scream. This is normal people we're talking about
> using this product. Not all of them are going to take the time to read
> about what should be mostly an intuitive, known interface (camera) and
> a small portion new changes to that existing framework.

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