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Subject:RE: my bad displays habit From:Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:<techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:09:52 -0500
I know we have had this discussion before, but...Yes. Some of my users ;^)
And my parents.
>
> I wrote user docs like that 25 years ago when half my readers were likely to be people who were staring at the first GUI they'd ever seen, but is there anyone left today who's surprised when clicking on something brings up a window, or even contemplates the possibility that they've gotten the wrong one?
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> Gene Kim-Eng
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> On 2/26/2010 10:45 PM Kat Kuvinka wrote:
> >Nice approach! I think many of us have that info
> >mapping philosophy for writing instructions, each
> >step is an action and result so folks know they
> >did the right thing.
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