Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition
May 22, 2013 » 4 Replies
I had a conversation with a developer the other day about help material. He said that when he sees static pages, he assumes the content is out of date. He prefers forum threads because he can see the dates, and because forums contain real information from people using the product. He likes wikis because he Continue Reading »
Most users think help content is useless. It’s an almost universal perception that help content will be, for the most part, unhelpful. It’s a last resort measure, when you can’t figure it out from the interface, when no colleagues are standing by to assist, when you’ve reached a certain level of frustration and have nothing else to try — only then do you bring yourself to begrudgingly click the help button.