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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 14:41:10 -0700 (PDT)
That's one reason to love this job: we get the strategic level view,
since we're thinking in terms of user function over the life of product
development, where everyone else gets pigeonholed more efficiently.
--- Eric Dunn <dunn -dot- eric -dot- l -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> By the time that a decent techwriter reaches the last question, they
> usually have an "if I were God" scenario plotted out as to how the
> exact same function could be implemented eliminating possible
> confusion and error, streamlining the process, and eliminating the
> need for complex explanation to the user.
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