{"id":1869,"date":"2015-02-16T01:21:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2015-01-27T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:28:40","slug":"us-as-the-user-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/02\/us-as-the-user-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Us as the User Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t look to the provider&#8217;s user manual; look to the rest of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why it has taken me so long to write about this topic. Almost everyone already knows this, but for the record&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I ran into this situation again this week. I was learning how to use a large, complex piece of software (or as everyone calls them these days, &#8220;an app.&#8221;). The person showing me the app reminded me of a simple technique,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For help, Google the topic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course. If you are using any app that has more than a thousand users, go to Google (or Bing or Yahoo or your favorite search engine).<\/p>\n<p>We could go to the provider&#8217;s online help, but relatively few people at the provider actually use the app, so they have limited knowledge of how real users use the app and the questions we have.<\/p>\n<p>We have the answers. We put the answers on the Internet. When in doubt, go to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Don&#8217;t look to the provider&#8217;s user manual; look to the rest of us. I don&#8217;t know why it has taken me so long to write about this topic. Almost everyone already knows this, but for the record&#8230; I ran into this situation again this week. I was learning how to use a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,107,90,43,84,106,20],"tags":[154,221,207,165,201,220,142],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-consulting","category-education","category-ideas","category-internet","category-knowledge","category-learning","tag-communication","tag-consulting","tag-education","tag-ideas","tag-internet","tag-knowledge","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}