Re: The coming predominance of user experience andtechnicalcommunications

[John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

Well, I do spend pretty much an hour in class defining, explaining, and 
illustrating them. And part of our job is to make stuff comprehensible 
for others. My alternate list:

Get the big picture
Ask questions
Own the information
Order for explanation
Write it up

JG


Dori Green said the following on 7/26/2007 9:05 AM:
> ...and enough facility with the English language to understand what those mean!  At least three of those five terms would be incomprehensible to 95% of my readership
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