I had a great talk the other night with a classmate of mine from graduate school, who focused on usability and now works on a web application development team as their user experience designer. He’s Tim Keirnan, and I asked him to explain some of his interview techniques that he uses for his Design Critique […]
Hurdles and Hardships using Wikis for Technical Documentation
After a Q&A on the Facebook discussion page for my book, Sarah Maddox and I had an additional email exchange talking about the difficulties people face when using wikis for documentation. I believe that many wikis are in the range of “content management systems” or moving in that direction. But there are many difficulties in […]
Social media, conversation, and writing style
What are some pointers for developing a style guide for writing on the social web or for certain social mediums? I discuss style guidance at length in chapter 7 in my book, which is titled Finding Your Voice. In fact, I read from chapter 7 for my book reading at South By Southwest Interactive last […]