Re:How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily
by restruct on Sunday October 11, 2009 @02:21PM
(#875012)
"Instead of doing what’s easy for you, do what’s easy for your reader."
It is easier for the author to convert the PowerPoint into a PDF, but what is easier for the reader is if the information was in HTML/web format. The author should package the information so that it enters our heads as easily as possible.
This is why user-centered interfaces are better than programmer-centered interfaces. The point is to make it easier for the user, not easier for the programmer.
Re:How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily
by selven on Sunday October 11, 2009 @02:53PM
(#875069)
Indeed. You're taking the effort of making it once, but the collective readers are taking the effort of reading it tens, hundreds or thousands of times.
It is easier for the author to convert the PowerPoint into a PDF, but what is easier for the reader is if the information was in HTML/web format. The author should package the information so that it enters our heads as easily as possible.
This is why user-centered interfaces are better than programmer-centered interfaces. The point is to make it easier for the user, not easier for the programmer.