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Recently there was one red question on Red Canary that had me thinking. The question was, what advice would you give to a young graduate starting a tech career. More specifically though, I was intrigued by some of the answers. I’m in no position to give advice but I could use it. One answer that [...]

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Oh, perhaps this is just stating the obvious for you.
As a technical writer suddenly writing web content, I had no idea.
My brain so efficiently crunches data and spits it out in list format, complete with headings and summarized with concise sentence structure, that I have a hard time writing anything else.
Oh I’m great at brainstorming, [...]

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When I first mentioned buying The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, I knew it was a well-respected classic for those in user experience design. Amber - a friend who designs Technical Poet - pointed out she did not enjoy it, in fact, because the examples related to engineering physical products such as tables, [...]

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Looks like Delicious has rolled out their new look, along with forwarding their “del.icio.us” URL to the more recognizable “delicious.com”. So far I think it looks much sharper and more professional.
By the way, you can see my Delicious links while you’re there if you like.

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At the moment I am learning more about technical writing and copywriting, and have offered to write the user documentation for Pencil - a Firefox extension for prototyping and wireframing. Otherwise I’ve offered to do a simple introduction to Ajax and JavaScript frameworks for a local group, which is rather nerve-wracking yet also an excellent [...]

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What strikes me as I cruise job sites is that many software developers want designers, yet I don’t as often see web developers who realize the importance of good web interface design. As the line between application and web blurs, what elements are carried across? How does usability change when we compare a piece of [...]

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Eventually I hope to implement a blogging system on this site to make updating it easier, however, as yet I haven’t found one I truly like. I will probably need to just put a simple one together using a framework like Cake or CodeIgniter. That said, we have been hit with a serious heatwave here [...]

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I just had a poor user experience that I wanted to share. I was on the website of a college which has a technical writing program, including several courses online. There were two courses I was interested in - both introductory level and prerequisites for all other courses. Course X had a listed [...]

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