The return of Clippy?

Are we seeing the the spiritual child of Clippy emerge? Truth Labs’s Stelios Constantinides has written an article on his experiments with conversational UIs. Conversational user interfaces (CUIs) are a spoken or written way of interacting with a device. CUIs aren’t completely new, but they’re becoming smarter, more natural, and — therefore — more useful. Here’s where CUIs come in:… Read more »

One to watch – Swagger2markup

Swagger2Markup promises to simplify the generation of REST API documentation by combining auto-generated API documentation produced by Swagger with manually written content. To include the programmatically generated snippets in your documentation, you’d use Asciidoc’s Include macro. The output would look like this:  

API documentation design patterns

One of the current developments in technical communication is the development of a common way to present API documentation. At present, there are a number of different design patterns that organisations are using, but, as with many things, there seems to be a desire to establish a de facto standard. One part of this has… Read more »

We’re moving training venues

After three happy years of using 50 Princes Gate in South Kensington as our training venue, from April 2016 we’ll be moving our courses to One Savoy Place, London WC2.   One Savoy Place is located between the Savoy Hotel and Waterloo Bridge. It has recently undergone a £30 million refurbishment, and it is easily accessible by… Read more »

Adapting to change in technical communication

Technical Authors work in a profession where they must be able to adapt to changes in the technology sector. Often, the changes relate to the outputs they need to create or the authoring tools they use, and most Technical Authors adapt quite easily to the new situations. However, sometimes there are also changes to writing styles or the… Read more »