Comments on: Usability, Interface Design and Technical Writing http://www.chrisblanc.org/blog/interaction-design/2007/12/17/usability-interface-design-and-technical-writing/ fiction and technology Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bolg - The Chris Blanc Weblog :: What is technical writing? http://www.chrisblanc.org/blog/interaction-design/2007/12/17/usability-interface-design-and-technical-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-907 Bolg - The Chris Blanc Weblog :: What is technical writing? Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:39:28 +0000 http://www.chrisblanc.org/blog/interaction-design/2007/12/17/usability-interface-design-and-technical-writing/#comment-907 [...] than copywriters, but we have the skills of both, as well as skills in technology, page layout, and interface design (now ponderously called “interaction [...] [...] than copywriters, but we have the skills of both, as well as skills in technology, page layout, and interface design (now ponderously called “interaction [...]

]]> By: YJ http://www.chrisblanc.org/blog/interaction-design/2007/12/17/usability-interface-design-and-technical-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-527 YJ Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:03:28 +0000 http://www.chrisblanc.org/blog/interaction-design/2007/12/17/usability-interface-design-and-technical-writing/#comment-527 Heinlein is a great writer; yet the "specialization is for insects" quote is fiction, even if Heinlein dresses it up as an aphorism written by character Lazarus Long. Statements in fiction can neither be correct, nor incorrect. Northrop Frye talks about this in _The Educated Imagination_ and in other works. To judge an author's opinion from those of his characters is non sequitur: why favour one character over another? And if memory serves, Heinlein states that Lazarus Long is not "Heinlein", in _Grumbles from the Grave_. Not quite like Flaubert and his famous "Mme Bovary, c'est moi." (Mrs. Bovary is who I am.) Cheers, Heinlein is a great writer; yet the “specialization is for insects” quote is fiction, even if Heinlein dresses it up as an aphorism written by character Lazarus Long. Statements in fiction can neither be correct, nor incorrect. Northrop Frye talks about this in _The Educated Imagination_ and in other works. To judge an author’s opinion from those of his characters is non sequitur: why favour one character over another? And if memory serves, Heinlein states that Lazarus Long is not “Heinlein”, in _Grumbles from the Grave_. Not quite like Flaubert and his famous “Mme Bovary, c’est moi.” (Mrs. Bovary is who I am.)

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