Re: Definition of "user-friendly"?

Subject: Re: Definition of "user-friendly"?
From: Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 11:04:55 -0700 (PDT)


Right. And to be more concrete: User-friendly is
documentation that minimizes the reader having to
perform skips and jump-to's to get the info that
he/she needs.

This can only mean documentation designed to consists
of loosely coupled and highly cohesive modules. And
this requires analysis techniques that result in such
designs.

Tony Markos

--- Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > User-friendly documentation is documentation that
> allows users to get
> > the information they need, when they need it....





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