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Subject:Re: Online Help Usability From:"Nancy S. Burns" <nburns -at- NOAO -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 12 Apr 1994 10:44:45 -0825
>*
>* Do you think any of the following terms would be *help*ful for renaming
>* the on-line help:
>*
>* Medicine
>* Rx
>* Remedy
>* 1-800
>*
>* Just curious,
>*
>* Julie Jensen
>* CIRT Publications
>*
>Hey, how about "911"?
>-- Jim Walsh jimw -at- tennessee -dot- sc -dot- ti -dot- com
How about 1-800-YOU-WISH?
Nancy S. Burns
National Solar Observatory
Tucson, Arizona
e-mail: nburns -at- noao -dot- edu
"Unlike most legal writing, and unlike specifications, the paramount goal
of user documentation is not to be unambiguous; it is to be helpful." from
"The Sachertorte Algorithm" by John Shore
