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The painful reality of users
A recent discussion at Reddit features stories about watching uninformed coworkers inefficiently complete computer tasks. For example, one describes a coworker printing a spreadsheet and using it to re-enter the data in sorted order.
While the tone of the stories is harsh, they're enough to make anyone who has written a user manual cry.
Posted: June 26, 2011 link to this item, Tweet this item, respond to this item