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With increasing demand for technical products, the technical communication field has grown. What used to be the strict discipline of creating and editing policies and manuals has now exploded into a rich field of communicating in many media as well as performing user analysis, applying usability methods, creating e-learning, and much more.
Technical communicators have become an asset to many companies with their understanding of technical processes, as well as their ability to communicate information in a clear and usable way to different groups, from consumers to end users. Technical communicators have the crucial job to plan, design, organize, write, edit, and test information. That information may be safety critical, keeping consumers and employees from harming themselves and others by unintentionally misusing products. That information may also be what makes consumers and employees productive and happy by showing them how to perform their tasks quickly and easily.
Some examples of people within the technical communication field are: content developers, documentation specialists, indexers, information architects, information designers, instructional designers, researchers, teachers, technical illustrators, technical writers and editors, translators, usability and human factors professionals, visual designers, and Web designers and developers.