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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 11:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
The latter part isn't limited to developers.
Developers speak their own language, in the same way graphic artists,
project managers and (whatever gods you believe in help you) management
has its own internal language.
Technical writers translate this. What guides us? Making the experience
of using the product clear to the user.
--- Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Developers are very poor at taking the initiative to ask questions
> at other than the bit and bite level. ( At that level they feel
> secure.) My God this is soooooo common: The project is in disarray,
> at the end of a project telecon where nothing of any real
> significance was discussed, management asks "Any questions?"
> Result: Some ity-bitty-level questions that do not address anything
> significant.
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