“Interesting” idea
Thursday, December 15th, 2005Kathy Sierra has a great blog (Creating Passionate Users). I’ve only been following it for a couple weeks, but I’m really impressed. She writes about (predictably) making people passionate about your subject matter. In her case, that’s computer - and more specifically programming language - documentation and training. As luck would have it, that’s one of my interests.
Her latest post is about keeping your writing interesting. Here’s a quote, but I encourage you to go read the whole thing:
So, how do you make things interesting?
If you were a brain, and you’d been evolving for a very, very long time… what would you find interesting?
* Surprise, novelty, the unexpected
* Beauty
* Stories
* Conversation
* Emotionally touching (the whole kids and puppies thing)
* Counterintuitive failures or mistakes
* Fun, playfulness, humor
* Varying visuals
* Faces of people, especially with strong expressions
* Sounds, music
* Shock, creepy things
and of course…
* Sexiness
One fairly straightforward way to make documentation/training/articles interesting is to crank up four sliders Conversation, Variety, Visuals, and Story.
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