RE: Usability Professionals and Technical Communicators

Subject: RE: Usability Professionals and Technical Communicators
From: "Karen L. Zorn" <k -dot- zorn -at- zorntech -dot- com>
To: "'Bill Swallow'" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'Dan Goldstein'" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:49:47 -0700

Yet each have some key points of insight into each other's profession
(albeit very, very limited on either side).

On Nov 12, 2007 4:22 PM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
wrote:
> Being an expert on usability doesn't mean you know how to write. Being a
> skilled writer about, say, pharmaceutical research doesn't mean you know
> anything about usability.


On a project a few years back I worked with a usability professional. Our
skill sets complimented each other very well, I caught things of him, he
caught things of mine, and we were a team when marketing or engineering
wanted to make things absolutely impossible for the end user.

There's a place for both skill sets in life.

Karen L. Zorn
Zorn Technologies, Inc.
Mesa, AZ


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Follow-Ups:

References:
Usability Professionals and Technical Communicators: From: Cardimon, Craig
RE: Usability Professionals and Technical Communicators: From: Dan Goldstein
Re: Usability Professionals and Technical Communicators: From: Bill Swallow

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