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Re: The coming predominance of user experience and technicalcommunications
Subject:Re: The coming predominance of user experience and technicalcommunications From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:19:33 -0700 (PDT)
Part of explaining is stripping away the stuff that is not directly
relevant to the task, and if you can remove it in the explanation, it
can often be simplified, complexity hidden, or removed in real life as
well.
--- John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com> wrote:
> The writer will think about making it easy to explain. And if it's
> easy
> to explain, it's easy to learn, and if it's easy to learn it's easy
> to use.
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