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Subject:Re: What *is* user-friendly... From:Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:44:43 -0800
Larry Kunz writes:
>I wonder if a generational factor is at work here.
I doubt it. Japanese companies have been using cutesy-wutesy cartoons
in their manuals for ages. Not only in end-user-manuals aimed at
foreign morons, but in their domestic technical manuals aimed at
professionals.
They can reach Barney-like levels of ersatz cuteness, too.
-- Robert
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