Posts by Sacha
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Emma, I like any instructive writer who uses the word "you".
I managed (every now and then, not all the time) to persuade development teams that I could help free them from support work later if they let me have a hand in the interface. None of them liked support or maintenance work much, funnily enough. And too many were only fluent in geek. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Do them worms have any link with our colleagues' failure to write understandable instructions (or these days, design knowable interfaces)?
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These also seem to be very generic and long-standing words:
change, hope, climate, trust, issues. -
Thought maybe there was some connection that wasn't obvious to me, is all. I'll be fine if you don't want to address it.
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I love his effortless conflation of current earnings and future wellbeing.
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every time they say "Great Southern Stand" does anyone else think of Icehouse?
Yep.
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I've never been a tech writer, but I have done some in the past.
A recovering tech writer, prehaps?
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You have to think like a novice is what i mean?
Yes, but not by being a novice. Understanding audiences and being quite conscious about the language conventions and other assumed knowledge are definitely part of it. Balancing that deliberateness against telling more experienced readers how to suck lemons is the art.
I found it very much like PAT tests - the reward was internal satisfaction rather than as Jack said anyone actually reading the work. Combining it with support and design roles meant actually seeing more impact. However, there are roles like parent or teacher that have more effect on the world every day. Funny they don't pay was well..
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Iran vs Iraq, I mean. Just hit reload and found all the intervening stuff but my questions sitll stands.
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Iran? What am I missing here?
Yeah. Craig, care to explain that sidestep?
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