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Re: Red Button - O MY! (end of that story - for now) - and NEW question
Subject:Re: Red Button - O MY! (end of that story - for now) - and NEW question From:"Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:51:36 -0600
On Tuesday, July 28, 2009, Deborah Hemstreet wrote:
> Major success: All text is being passed through me to make consistent
> for capitalization, expression, terminology, and embedded help in the
> GUI is also going to be passed through me!
Do your engineers have a GUI doc that they follow? (essentially a style guide) If not, I think it
would be in everyone's best interest to work with Engineering to develop one (perhaps you
develop, and they provide input/approval). Otherwise, this "major success" is going to be
terribly inefficient.
Engineers are pretty good at following rules if they have them laid out beforehand :)
2 cents,
Dana W.
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