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Subject:Re: Username or user name (generalized) From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:39:56 -0700 (PDT)
> > This isn't a vote thing...the product manager is the one to make
> > the decision.
>
> Actually, Steve's post sounds as if he actually is in a "vote
> thing."
Wrong choice of words...This shouldn't be a "voting situation"
thing...this should be a "Product Manager Decision" thing.
My last gig, the Communications department, to which I belonged, has
all final decisions on the wordings in the Interface, menues, and
dialogs. We got this reponsibility by continually pointing out the
errors in the software, till they handed the responsibility to us. I
even had the UI resource file in XML form in which we made the
changes...we didn't even have to filter them through development. We
made the changes, handed over the files, and they appeared in the
application with the next build. Of course, along with this went the
input of development if we weren't sure of what was meant, but it
wasn't mandatory.
> There may be product manager or a tech pubs manager, but if
> he/she/they aren't stepping up to the plate to make the decisions,
> then they might as well not be there.
> This sounds to me like one of those occaisions where documenting
> the UI as-is bolding all the SW dialog names might be a good
> idea... :)
and circle the element in the IU picture, then wait for someone to
notice that what is circled isn't what is called out in the text.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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