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The Future of Tech Docs?

This is not your father’s technical documentation anymore. Howtoons are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids how to build things. I particularly like their explanation of binary. Why leave restrict this to 5-to-15 year-olds? I’d enjoy assembling a bookshelf a lot more if the instructions came with mustachioed villains and buxom heroines.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 16th, 2004 at 11:16 am and is filed under Technical Writing. Tag Testing Project: No Tags. Photo by . You can skip to the end and leave a response, or trackback from your own site. If you don't see your comment within a day or so, drop me an email. Sometimes my comment spam filter gets overly zealous.

One Response to “The Future of Tech Docs?”

  1. Winston Smith Says:
    April 16th, 2004 at 1:38 pm

    I think it’s a great idea, but fraught with danger.

    There’s a [this was supposed to be a link to the Hall of Tech Doc Weirdness]really great website[end link] that points this out to us.

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