By Tina M. Kister Everyone who creates content engages in design, either incidentally or intentionally. Incidental design leads to information that is ambiguous, difficult to process, and unappealing. Science-based content design provides you with practical, evidence-based guidelines for...
By Jeff Johnson Reading is a complex, taxing process, particularly for unskilled readers. While speaking and understanding spoken language is a...
By Riccardo Mazza Visualizing information allows us to convey complex ideas quickly and easily. With a deeper understanding of how people decode and...
By Yulia Goldenberg and Noam Tractinsky Research shows that intuition, idiosyncratic knowledge, and even practical, reasoned judgment are...
By Xin Sun We need to learn to recognize, question, and verify the underlying beliefs that influence how we develop instructional and technical...
By Michelle Corbin | STC Fellow While all kinds of editing are important and necessary, the scope and substance of an edit can vary dramatically...
By Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilaror For about three years, I’ve been studying how to improve the technical communication between humanitarian organizations...
By Sean Scheibe I was recently assigned a class project to edit a manual for a “Beavertail” hitch-pull trailer, named for the sloped extension on its...
By Kirsty Taylor | STC President For Kirsty’s inaugural column, we are reprinting her address from the Annual Business Meeting, held in June 2021...
By Julia Southwick | STC Member An STC mentorship project with Bethany Aguad gave me this insight: Dungeons and Dragons is similar to technical communication...
