I was one of the presenters at last week’s Technical Communication UK 2015 (TCUK) conference. TCUK is the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators’ (ISTC’s) annual conference for everyone involved in writing, editing, illustrating, delivering and publishing technical information. It’s an opportunity for Technical Communicators from the UK and mainland Europe to meet up and mingle,… Read more »
Tag: Technical Communication
The ContentHug interviews
I was asked to take part in the ContentHug series of interviews on technical communication and content strategy. .@ellispratt shares his thoughts on technical communication: http://t.co/pTZjRLm9PU #techcomm — Vinish Garg (@vingar) September 21, 2015 It was fun and challenging, going through the questions. ContentHug’s Vinish Garg is interviewing a number of consultants involved in technical communication… Read more »
Creating palaces of almost forgotten things
This weekend, we went to the Fabularium on London’s South Bank, where the programme highlighted The Museum of Almost Forgotten Things. It struck me that this concept could also be applied to technical communication. The impetus to write things down, to document policies and procedures and to write user documentation for software written in a… Read more »
Common sense isn’t always common
Here’s some examples from Munich of what might seem to obvious and common sense to the one audience, but not to others. Traffic lights that have four lights, with the symbols –, O, I and K: Pedestrian crossing lights that have two people instead of one: The second set of lights is still comprehendible (hold… Read more »
The decline of the gerund in technical documentation?
Louise Downe, who works at the UK’s Government Digital Service, wrote a blog post (Good services are verbs, bad services are nouns), where she stated: “After several rounds of user testing, the Home Office changed the name of ‘Immigration Health Surcharge’ to ‘check if you need to pay towards your health care in the UK’ –… Read more »