1993 - NeXT Style Guide

NeXT Style guide

STC Merit award

One day Steve Jobs interrupted our Documentation team meeting and announced that he wanted all the NeXT manuals to read “like two guys talking.” I ran with it and have been trying to write documentation like that ever since.

NeXT Style guide

This guide was a lot of fun to write and I still hold to pretty much all these premises today. It even won an award at the STC, and has many silly chapter introductions.

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