David Farbey wrote a semi-existentialist post on the challenges for technical communicators yesterday. I’d like to look at the issue in a different way, by looking at the big questions in technical communication today. The answers to these questions (which may be decided by people outside of the profession) are likely to affect the future… Read more »
Category: Technical Communicators
Design-led technical documentation
Peter J. Bogaards posted a link on Twitter yesterday to an article and a press release on how IBM is adopting a design-led approach to software design. “IBM Design Thinking is a broad, ambitious new approach to re-imagining how we design our products and solutions … Quite simply, our goal — on a scale unmatched… Read more »
How technical communicators can become better conference presenters
Here are four short videos that offer great advice on how to create engaging presentations: Nancy Duarte on the structure of presentations:
Technical Communicators and their Websites
I’ve just written a new post for the STC’s Notebook blog on Technical Communicators and their Websites. We look at some of the challenges and decisions technical communicators face when designing a website for their business. To help illustrate this, I included some examples of technical communication companies’ websites, including our own.
The end of two-faced product documentation?
At some stage or another, a technical communicator is likely to have seen this image from Kathy Sierra: