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I read manuals, back-to-back. Admittingly, I skip legalese disclaimers because they are intellectual noise. However, many manuals contain golden nuggets of info
by madez 8y ago
I read manuals, back-to-back. Admittingly, I skip legalese disclaimers because they are intellectual noise. However, many manuals contain golden nuggets of information revealing that most people misuse a certain product or don't use it the best possible way.
A well written manual can be a teaching lesson about the relevant stuff given by domain experts for regular users. Who'd say No to that?
- saiya-jin 8y agoWhat you describe makes complete sense and is very logical and I can't agree more. The problem is, most people don't behave very logically, are lazy, scared of any technical details or simply don't understand them and don't even try (it's some technical mumbo jumbo, just gimme remote and how do I turn it on). You can't reach those with a nice manual apart from maybe initial drawings on how to plug things
- carlivar 8y agoHacker News commenters seem to be a poor representation of the average population.