Re: Wordless manuals

Subject: Re: Wordless manuals
From: Sunil Gokhale <sunilg -at- PUNE -dot- TCS -dot- CO -dot- IN>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:10:03 +0530

Mary,

The Wordless manual sounds like the movies or plays which use just miming,
where the actions of the actor speak for themselves.
It could also be compared to the Indian dance styles or ballets, where
the story is enacted without a *word*.
In all these wordless artfroms the thing that is common is proper usage of
action - proper meaning not only in coordination but also in assigning a
language to those actions.

For the wordless manual I would suggest -
i. Define the various activities which revolve around the product.
ii. Identify the specific actions and assign some - character, caricature
to those actions.
iii. Evolve the activity through these caricatures.

Sunil Gokhale, Technical Writer
Tata Consultancy Services
sunilg -at- pune -dot- tcs -dot- co -dot- in

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