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Communities starting with D

Does Your Career Need A Usability Evaluation?

Janel Anderson, originally presented 13 November 2012

Does your career path conform to the best practices of usability and design? Is your career flowing by design or by accident? For most of us, the answer is some of each. In this webinar, Janel Anderson weaves together usability best practices and principles of design with career planning and strategy. You will apply several design heuristics to your work experience, networking efforts, and overall career. You will come away with new insights on your career to date and concrete action steps for creating a forward-thinking career design for the next decade and beyond.

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Developing for the Unknown

Neil Perlin, originally presented 24 July 2012

Today, we create content for output as online help and PDF. But what about tomorrow? Because we don’t know, it’s increasingly important to create content that’s technically clean, consistent, and maintainable or future-proofed. That requires the correct design philosophy and the correct use of control mechanisms—the subject of this webinar.

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Designing Visual Texts for Print and Digital Publications

Kenneth Price, originally presented 6 March 2012

Effectively laying out technical information goes far beyond using bulleted lists and choosing an attractive font. In designing a page, you should create visuals patterns that help your readers to find, understand, and remember information. This webinar will introduce the principles of visual language, information architecture, and page design. These principles, based entirely upon research on how people learn, will help you to design effective electronic and print publications to make technical information more accessible.

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Designing Quick Reference Guides

Tom Johnson, originally presented 25 January 2012

Condensing a manual into an attractive quick reference guide requires a poet’s precision with language, but it also requires you to exercise skill with visual design and page layout. These short guides blend marketing with instruction, allowing you to combine text with images to pull readers into the content. Long manuals are outdated, ineffective ways to teach people software. The quick reference guide (usually 2 to 6 pages), with strong visuals and a magazine-like layout, is something that end-users, project managers, and just about everyone absolutely loves. Quick reference guides should be a standard deliverable that technical communicators emphasize and prioritize in their work.

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