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RE: What do you call wordless technical procedures?
Subject:RE: What do you call wordless technical procedures? From:"Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)" <MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:36:41 -0500
Wendy put this together with just a screwdriver and a hammer:
>John McWade, from the magazine "Before&After" calls this
>"visual instructions". I call it "Ikea-style"
This reminds me: this weekend, after our 894th trip to Ikea (my SO just
bought a house), I was moved to laugh out loud at the fact that they
have a wastepaper can with the name, "Dokument."
I think they're saying something here, possibly about where our words
belong.
Sincerely,
Madelyn "It's Swedish for Circular File" Boudreaux
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