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Re: Best New Thing in User Documentation?

Subject: Re: Best New Thing in User Documentation?
From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:34:49 -0400

On 06/13/2011 04:57 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:

... I often find videos to be a disappointment

I've glanced at a few horrors that were supposed to be touting some nifty FOSS, and consisted of the Camtasiac flitting the cursor over various jump-in, jump-out screens.

Here's an invented scenario that's kind of an amalgam of the worst:

"As you can see here, we just click on this, and a couple more clicks over on this other screen to set up the profile, you might need to do a little more with some of those parameters to make it the way you want it, and we're done."

1. I can't see where "this" is because you went too fast and didn't name the item of interest.

2. You know where your cursor is heading. I can't even catch where it is at all.

3. Something just changed on your screen, but I have no idea what it was.

4. The "other screen" came from some mystical but unrevealed place. Lemme guess, in your spare time, you're a gamer, right?
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