Re: Software documentation that uses effective visual metaphors?

Subject: Re: Software documentation that uses effective visual metaphors?
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:32:55 -0700

Not everything has a UI. I used metaphorical diagrams to explain a
complex versioning model in an object-oriented DBMS that had no UI,
only command-line admin and SQL clients, a C API, and bindings for
Java, C++, and various other languages.

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:23 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> [no-help-at-all 'response' follows]
>
> So, what you are saying is that the designers and developers of the software have stopped short of making an excellent UI, and you-and-your gang are now tasked with bridging the gap by documenting?

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Software documentation that uses effective visual metaphors?: From: Lois Patterson
RE: Software documentation that uses effective visual metaphors?: From: Lynne Wright
Re: Software documentation that uses effective visual metaphors?: From: Lois Patterson
RE: Software documentation that uses effective visual metaphors?: From: McLauchlan, Kevin

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