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If this helps, the reason my bosses liked a consistent flow
direction was that often, the part of the flow that users
are looking for is how it starts or how it ends...not so
much what happens in the middle of the flow.
By having a consistent direction, it makes it easier and
subject to less error if they know that they always start on
the left or top, or on the right or bottom.
It also makes it easier to merge multiple flows in larger
flows. You remember me discussing several months ago my
7foot by 10foot flow? This was made by combining 35+
pre-existing individual flows. There's no way I could have
done it if each of the flows had been inconsistent.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
writer[at]tdandw.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:50 AM
Subject: RE: Flowchart direction
>
> Thanks to Dick, John, Geoff, and Andrea (off-list). Guess
I'll have to
> convince them on the basis of (gasp) common sense. The
default in English
> should be top-to-bottom, left-to-right, with allowances
made for the
> situations described in your replies.
>
> Dan Goldstein
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Goldstein, Dan
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:53 AM
> > To: TECHWR-L (E-mail)
> > Subject: Flowchart direction
> >
> > I am trying to convince someone of the importance of
> > flowchart direction. I have some good arguments but I
need a
> > little "official" backup...
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