Thinking Visually
I want to use more illustrations and other graphics in our documentation. Graphics can help clarify ideas that are hard to understand from textual explanations, they can add useful redundancy to the communication, and they provide more learning channels. Plus they're often fun to look at.
The documentation I've worked on hasn't used graphics or art much, so I'm not used to thinking visually. That's not a Microsoft thing, it's more the style of the individual writers (like me) who generally think in words. In fact, Developer Division User Education has a designer/artist, Monique Bailey, who creates art for the docs (among her other design duties). To get a better understanding of this important area, I met with Monique to talk about how to turn concepts and ideas into pictures.
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