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The zen of minimalism: designing a top-of-class manual for beginners and advanced users

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ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communication archive
Proceedings of the 16th annual international conference on Computer documentation table of contents

Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Pages: 103 - 112

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-004-X

Author

Carl Stieren

Simware, Inc., 2 Gurdwara Rd., Ottawa, Ontario K2E 1A2 Canada

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SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	John M. Carroll, The Nurnberg funnel: designing minimalist instruction for practical computer skill, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990
	2	Carroll, John M, Editor, Minimalism beyond the Nurnberg Funnel, Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 1998
	3	Draper, Stephen, "Practical problems and proposed solutions in designing action-centered documentation", http://medusa.psy.gla.ac.uk/-steve/MinMan2.ht ml
	4	Joseph F. Dumas , Janice C. Redish, A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., Westport, CT, 1993
	5	Pirsig, Robert. (1984). The Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, USA: Bantam Books.
	6	Jeffrey Rubin , Theresa Hudson, Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1994
	7	Nicole Ummelen, Declarative information in software manuals: what's the use?, Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Computer documentation, p.283-296, October 19-22, 1997, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States [doi>10.1145/263367.263403]
	8	van der Meij, Hans, "Catching the user in the act", Paper presented at the Conference Quality of Technical Documentation, Enschede, the Netherlands, 19947, http ://~.to.utwente.nl/ist/ontwerpv/194519/ar tikel/catchiag.htm

CITED BY

Ben Shneiderman, Promoting universal usability with multi-layer interface design, ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.7 Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement
Subjects: Documentation

Additional Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
K.6.2 Installation Management
Subjects: Performance and usage measurement

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Measurement, Performance

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