UI/UX for technical communicators is the theme for TC Summer Camp 2017

I sit on the TC Camp board and am sponsoring the Structured Authoring workshop at TC Summer Camp in DC on September 9th.Every year, we ask what topic people want for the morning workshops. So far only one topic has…

• Key Concepts: collaboration, community, training and mentoring, usability and user experience
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues: TC Camp

Teaching Martians to make a sandwich–How Technical Writers can improve patient safety

There's a well-known exercise to experienced technical writers: How do you teach a Martian to make a sandwich. It's so well known that we talk about it as an exercise in best practices for user experience and modern instructional design….

• Key Concepts: best practices, regulated industries, usability and user experience
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues:

Will I see you this month? It’s Conference Season 2017!

Conference season 2017 started last month and we're on the road! In fact, I'm two conferences down with two more to go.  I love to meet people in person and hear their stories. The last couple of years I've started to prefer…

• Key Concepts: news
• Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
• Venues: AIIP, STC

Adepters – What is it and how do I find it?

Are you an Arbortext user? Have you heard the word Adepters and wonder what it means? Adepters is the name of the original Arbortext user mailing list which was launched in 1996. At that time there the web was still new, so…

• Key Concepts: basics, community
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues: PTC Arbortext User

Do you treat your career like a profession?

b Post Summary There's only you to hold you accountable, to make sure you meet your business and revenue goals. You can apply the same skills business owners, consultants, and executives use to advance their business to advance your career….

• Key Concepts: best practices, jobs and careers, soft-skills
• Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
• Venues:

Review: Adobe Technical Communications Suite 2017, UI, UX, and Techcomm

Updated: 29 November 2017 Last month I wrote about an article by Linn Vizard that I saw on the Adobe Creative Cloud blog about the Evolution of Buttons in UX Design. While I thoroughly enjoyed the article for personal reasons,…

• Key Concepts: framemaker, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues:

Top Authors and Books from My 2016 Reading Challenge

In 2016, I wrote 3 books and read 237. I haven’t decided whether reading that many books in one year is good or bad. There are some that I don’t really remember reading. I look at the titles or read…

• Key Concepts: collaboration, community, training and mentoring, usability and user experience
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues: TC Camp

Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?

Technical writers are paying more attention to UI/UX because documentation is part of the user experience. Technical writers, who explain user interface elements and design how-to documents for user tasks and procedures, know when a design choice will have repercussions. We…

• Key Concepts: usability and user experience
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues: