Double messages? (was RE: Documenting the user interface)

["Gordon McLean" <Gordon -dot- McLean -at- GrahamTechnology -dot- com>]

Anyone else getting a lot of emails twice from the list? Or is it just me?

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Sturgeon [mailto:prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com]

I'm a convert, too.

The first UI I documented, in the early '80s, was for people who were
still using paper forms.

So we worked hard to explain every key on the keyboard and every field
on the screen.

I wrote a whole paragraph on cursor keys.

But so many users today have computers, and so many applications behave
similarly--even down to keystrokes for common functions, that documents
can be light and more focused.

Advances in usability have also reduced the need to explain obtuse and
cumbersome UIs.


--- Jessica Weissman <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com> wrote:

> I've undergone the same conversion Gordon mentions. 



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