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I have to second Ken's comments as another who has been to Rochester and the UDC group. When I was put through the paces, I constantly went to the search function. After 4 or 5 times through scripts, they wanted me to find it with menus only. It was a struggle, as their perception of where something should be and mine were vastly different. I did get a few points across about putting all programming languages in the same tab and dragging the hardware options into the mix. John Brandt iStudio400.com -----Original Message----- From: Graap, Ken [mailto:keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 4:04 PM To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' Subject: RE: APIs: Where are the @#$% manuals? I have actually gone to Rochester as a customer and participated in User Design Center sessions with the InfoCenter development team... They presented me with a particular InfoCenter design and then ask me to find certain pieces information. As I struggled to find it, they took all kinds of notes and even video taped me! The designs I worked with were not very intuitive, as my struggling showed them. They once gave me a bunch of cards with topics on them, and asked me to build an InfoCenter structure.... That was interesting. It made me really understand what a challenge it is to organize this mountain of information into something easy to browse through. After these exercises, I always shared this thought with them... "It isn't as important how you organize the information in InfoCenter, as it is to provides a 1st class search engine to find what you want." Browsing through a hierarchical tree structure looking for information is way too confusing and time consuming. When a top notch search engine like "Google" or Copernic" is incorporated into InfoCenter, then it will become an information center we will all want to use. Kenneth -----Original Message----- From: Justin C. Haase [mailto:JHaase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:40 AM To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' Subject: RE: APIs: Where are the @#$% manuals? _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.514 / Virus Database: 312 - Release Date: 8/28/03 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/03
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