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 […]
Talking to Ellis Pratt about Conversation and Community
I spoke with Ellis Pratt with Cherryleaf in London from my home in Austin for a video interview last week, and the shortened version is available online now. He had many good questions, ones that I enjoy discussing all the time, such as the future of our profession. One good one was “What will user […]
Levels of difficulty and stress in a technical writer job
I have been thinking lately about how to measure the level of stress and difficulty you could expect from a particular technical writing job. Would it be the type of content you write? The output requirements? The deadlines? This post is a result of some ideas my coworkers and I discussed over lunch the other […]