Book Commentary 34 A tour through each contributorg perspective on minimalist documentation. Fifteen Ways of Looking at Minimalism James Dubinsky Dept. of English Virginia Tech (VPI and SU) Blacksburh, VA 24061 dubinsky@vt.edu In Wallace Stevens' enigmatic poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," the blackbird becomes an intimate, and inextricable, part of the equation of life: 'A man and a woman/Are one./A man and a woman and a blackbird / Are one." Reading Carroll's Minimalism Beyond the NurnbergFunnel, a collection of fifteen essays generated from a weekend conference held at Vtrginia Tech in 1995, a reader will walk away with a feeling about users similar to the one Stevens creates about the blackbird. That feeling might best be stated by paraphrasing Stevens: 'A designer and her documentation / Are one. / A designer and her documentation and a user / Are one." When all is said and done about minimalism (and there is quite a bit worth saying and doing), the essential principle of life for a good documentation designer must be anchored to the user and her needs. John M. Carroll's minimalism Beyond the NurnbergFunnel is an important book for document designers, providing a wide-ranging look
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Fifteen ways of looking at minimalism
Dubinsky, James
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 23 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – May 1, 1999
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