Thoughts on the manual
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Thoughts on the manual
this is a 1996 guide on how to help someone use a computer. it’s strikingly resonant with ‘how to be a parent’, or really ‘how to help anyone with anything’. a nice example of “the universal within the particular”
Another major source of needless words is instructions. The main thing you need to know about instructions is that no one is going to read them—at least not until after repeated attempts at “muddling through” have failed.
Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
The main thing you need to know about instructions is that no one is going to read them—at least not until after repeated attempts at “muddling through” have failed
Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
- Another major source of needless words is instructions. The main thing you need to know about instructions is that no one is going to read them —at least not until after repeated attempts at “muddling through” have failed.