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Re: Follow order of widget on screen, or logical order for procedures?
Subject:Re: Follow order of widget on screen, or logical order for procedures? From:"Anthony Markatos" <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:thetechwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:51:16 PST
Daviid Castro asks:
So, which is better? Put the procedure in the order of widgets on the
screen? Or put the steps in a logical order, and have the user bouncing
around on the screen looking for the corresponding widgets?
Tony Markatos responds:
It depends upon how much political clout you have. If you put the steps in
logical order, the resulting documentation will make poor design decisions
more glaringly apparent. Designers don't like this. If you don't have
enough political clout, you might be severly attacked.
If you do have enough political clout, then what will happen is that you
will be providing the primary input to a significant product redesign
effort.
Tony Markatos
(tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com)
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