The Government Digital Service has published an interesting guide on writing copy for User Interfaces and transactional interfaces: Writing for user interfaces It provides some good advice, and it’s consistent with the advice provided by other organisations, such as Apple, Google and Microsoft.
Category: Technical Author
Starting a career as a Technical Author
In this podcast, we look at the job of a Technical Author/Technical Communicator, and how you can start your career.
Cherryleaf 2017 European technical communicators survey results – Part 3 Other Salaries
Here are some more findings from our recent survey of European technical communicators. These relate to non-UK salaries. We didn’t get enough data to draw many conclusions, so we’ve provided the responses in the table below. We converted all of the salaries to Euro, to make it easier to compare.
Cherryleaf 2017 European technical communicators survey results – Part 2 UK Salaries
Here are some more findings from our recent survey of European technical communicators. These relate to UK salaries. Most of the people who responded to our survey were based in the UK, so we are able to look at these in more detail than other countries. UK salaries We asked people to describe their seniority… Read more »
Example project – API documentation portal using MadCap Flare
Note: This post follows on from two previous posts on creating a unified API documentation portal: Creating an API documentation portal with MadCap Flare and Swagger/OpenAPI Example of API documentation portal using MadCap Flare We’ve just uploaded an example project of an API documentation portal created using MadCap Flare: API documentation portal home page Swagger… Read more »