Re: Software documentation that uses effective visual metaphors?

[Lois Patterson <loisrpatterson -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Of course simply explaining the product never, ever occurred to me :).

The reason I am asking is that we are documenting highly complex software
that is not intuitively obvious, at least at first. A team member has
developed some graphics that represent a visual metaphor to explain some of
the inner workings, and I was trying to find examples of other software
packages that have done the same.

Lois




On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Lynne Wright <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- tiburoninc -dot- com>
wrote:

>
> By "visual" metaphor, do you mean a graphic? Or a written metaphor that
> evokes a visual image?
>
> And why would you use a metaphor to describe what a product does... why
> wouldn't you just ... um... explain what it does?
>
>
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> Does anyone know of software documentation that uses effective visual
> metaphors to describe the processes that the software performs? Clearly,
> lots of software documentation is visually attractive. But I am looking
> specifically for visual metaphors and analogies.
>
>
> Lois
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