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Subject:RE: Toggle on/off or Turns on and off From:"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 21 May 2004 12:24:49 -0400
>Edit the gui? I am not so powerful.
My question has nothing to do with anything except wanting an answer and
maybe a discussion.
One of the tasks of my department is to make suggestions for button,
fields, and screen names, labels, colors, and wordings and while the
suggestions aren't followed blindly, product engineering has to justify
why they aren't going to accept any of the suggestions. Yesterday I
submitted a 12 page document to the application product manager with
suggested changes to about 30 screens, dialogs, button names, and
message displays.
I already mentioned yesterday that we are to come up with the design of
the new buttons in the application. We also provide the wording for any
text blocks in windows and dialogs.
Granted, this responsibility is relatively new to me as most of my
career has been for internal documentation, but to me, this seems
natural. It leads to a more coherent look-and-feel between the
application and its documentation.
Is this that unusual?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Isogon Corporation http://www.isogon.com
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