Re: A documetation suggestion (was Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem)

FROM : Julius Guzy
DATE : Fri May 23 23:29:06 2008

On 23 May 2008, at 14:14, Steve Weller wrote:

>
> On May 23, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Julius Guzy wrote:

>>
>> I have done no analysis of what my learning problems were because 
>> I failed to keep a log. All I have to go on so far are vague 
>> memories of frustration with Interface Builder primarily but that 
>> is no basis upon which to specify an application.
>> I have started to keep such a log now and would willingly 
>> contribute to any endeavour which aimed to make getting into the 
>> system easier than it had been for me.
>>
>> I would be happy to collate a list of the types of difficulties 
>> people encountered if they were to send them to me. These would 
>> contribute to the analysis. It was this which was my primary 
>> motive for suggesting an FAQ approach because it would provide 
>> exactly this sort of information. The advantage of the FAQ over 
>> the manually compiled list would be that it does not rely on 
>> "impresions" of difficulties but actually documents them as they 
>> occur. So one question perhaps is how to adapt this FAQ to Jon's 
>> suggestion. But I am not wedded to the FAQ idea, it is simply that 
>> I think none of us has much time to contribute and therefore given 
>> the uncertainties of how effective any given approach might be, we 
>> would be wise to  choose an approach both easy to implement and 
>> easy to modify as our understanding increases. With regard to 
>> analysis one could ofcourse do a sweep of the problems reported on 
>> this list but given that it takes me a long time to read through 
>> its daily output it is a task I would balk at tackling alone - I 
>> think even a team of ten would find it hard.
>>

>
> Better than a log: put it in blog form. That way you will gather 
> momentum as others find you and contribute. It also means you can 
> include screen shots etc.
>

Thank you.
Thought of it. Rejected it. Thought of it etc.
Now. Definately
Thank you
but have to wait till i get back
Thanks again for the encouragement
Julius

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