Thursday, February 05, 2004

Why technical writers should love Microsoft's Inductive User Interface

Back-dating this one to the day we talked about it at work. It's actually just commentary on an MS study and test case, but is better written. I have this theory that processes split into single task steps could actually be made faster for advanced as well as new users by providing proper key commands. Each step would be clearly explained, you would never lose your place, and at the end you'd just hit Enter. Ideally data could be entered entirely with the keyboard, or entirely with the mouse (in the case of existing previous entries similar to the current one).

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