Archive for September, 2008

Re-use story

30Sep08

I can’t recall what prompted this memory to surface, but I thought it would make a nice diversion from my stated theme. It’s about re-use, so it’s somewhat relevant; I’ll leave it to you to judge whether there’s anything valuable to learn from it…
A number of years ago, I was the sole tech pubs contributor [...]


I asserted here that in my enterprise software experience, technical documentation often supplements the design and build process to address gaps that would be prohibitively expensive to address directly. The dominant human factors paradigm is that application user interfaces, or GUIs progress toward an ideal of flawlessly communicating the scope of the application, accurately modeling [...]