The document provides an overview of the core principles of minimalism in technical communication and documentation. It discusses four main principles: (1) taking an action-oriented approach focused on tasks, (2) anchoring the documentation in the tasks being performed by the users, (3) supporting error recognition and recovery, and (4) organizing content so users can easily find and read information to complete tasks, study concepts, and locate references. Examples are given to illustrate what minimalist documentation following these principles looks like compared to more traditional styles of documentation. Tips are also provided on how to start applying minimalism when reworking existing source content.
This is a short powerpoint deck I wrote on how to write powerpoint decks. My staff had a wide range of experience in presenting and the results were often disastrous. This is a simple baseline briefing about guidelines for creating powerpoint presentations. Or not.
Five people at one computer? How can that possibly be productive?
While this seems like a reasonable question, it's not easily answered - until we begin to understand the power of flow.
Mob Programming grew from the quest of one team to learn how to work well together. Once we started We almost immediately noticed that working this way provided better results in a variety of ways:
We were getting more done, and they were the more important thing
The quality of our work was increasing dramatically
Our Knowledge, skills, and capabilities were improving rapidly
And all while we were having a lot of fun as well!
While we noticed these benefits and more, and it was clear this was in a large part due to working well together throughout the day - we didn't have an understanding of why this was working so wonderfully for us.
A hint came early on when we recognized we were achieving a one-piece flow - but we didn't realize the importance of this until we started exploring the meaning and power of "flow".
In this presentation, we'll share the results of that exploration, and see if we can get a better understanding of Mob Programming and the power of flow.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8275/mob-programming-and-the-power-of-flow
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Software design as a cooperative game with EventStormingAlberto Brandolini
You got the stickies and the paper roll, and possibly already run a large Big Picture workshop to highlight where the problem is. Now you're in a room with business, software and UX experts hungry for a solution.
How do you make the magic happen?
In this talk, we'll explore some strategies about how to deliver with collaborative modeling, and how to narrow the gap between stickies and working code.
JDD2014: Game of Throneware, or how not to get killed when a developer become...PROIDEA
You are a good developer, each year you learn more, each year you earn more. You become senior, you become architect, chief architect, chief principal officer architect, and, one day, you are at the top-payroll level, and there is no place to go. You are happy with what you do, but your wife/husband/bank keeps asking for more. What do you do? You go to middle management.
What happens, when you become a manager? How do you organize teams, workspace? How do you help people? How do you deal with politics, communication? What has the position of your desk to do with the architecture of your systems? How do you make decisions?
Learning Solutions 2011 #LS2011 presentation on Learner Experience Design. Address what instructional design can learn from Ux (User Experience Design).
This is a short powerpoint deck I wrote on how to write powerpoint decks. My staff had a wide range of experience in presenting and the results were often disastrous. This is a simple baseline briefing about guidelines for creating powerpoint presentations. Or not.
Five people at one computer? How can that possibly be productive?
While this seems like a reasonable question, it's not easily answered - until we begin to understand the power of flow.
Mob Programming grew from the quest of one team to learn how to work well together. Once we started We almost immediately noticed that working this way provided better results in a variety of ways:
We were getting more done, and they were the more important thing
The quality of our work was increasing dramatically
Our Knowledge, skills, and capabilities were improving rapidly
And all while we were having a lot of fun as well!
While we noticed these benefits and more, and it was clear this was in a large part due to working well together throughout the day - we didn't have an understanding of why this was working so wonderfully for us.
A hint came early on when we recognized we were achieving a one-piece flow - but we didn't realize the importance of this until we started exploring the meaning and power of "flow".
In this presentation, we'll share the results of that exploration, and see if we can get a better understanding of Mob Programming and the power of flow.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8275/mob-programming-and-the-power-of-flow
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Software design as a cooperative game with EventStormingAlberto Brandolini
You got the stickies and the paper roll, and possibly already run a large Big Picture workshop to highlight where the problem is. Now you're in a room with business, software and UX experts hungry for a solution.
How do you make the magic happen?
In this talk, we'll explore some strategies about how to deliver with collaborative modeling, and how to narrow the gap between stickies and working code.
JDD2014: Game of Throneware, or how not to get killed when a developer become...PROIDEA
You are a good developer, each year you learn more, each year you earn more. You become senior, you become architect, chief architect, chief principal officer architect, and, one day, you are at the top-payroll level, and there is no place to go. You are happy with what you do, but your wife/husband/bank keeps asking for more. What do you do? You go to middle management.
What happens, when you become a manager? How do you organize teams, workspace? How do you help people? How do you deal with politics, communication? What has the position of your desk to do with the architecture of your systems? How do you make decisions?
Learning Solutions 2011 #LS2011 presentation on Learner Experience Design. Address what instructional design can learn from Ux (User Experience Design).
Boring presentations by whatzyourpoint incLMI Academy
What research tells us about the making of better business presentations.
Visit our website (www.whatzyourpoint.com) and Facebook page to learn more about this valuable skill.
The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "Brainstorming" and will show you how to use group thinking to get more and better ideas.
Witness wednesdays informing agile software development with continuous user...Rebecca Destello
In the startup world speed to market is everything.
This talk covers how it is possible to embed user insights into a rapid software development cycle by conducting usability studies that break the stereotype that "research takes too long."
Justin Marx and Rebecca Destello illustrate how to plan, conduct, analyze and inform development sprints in just one week with what famously became known as "Witness Wednesdays."
Justin Marx, Product Designer and Rebecca Destello, Manager, Research & Insights - both with Atlas Informatics.
Put the key stakeholders in the same room with an unlimited modelling surface, and some tricks, and you'll end up not only with a viable model, but also with skeleton for continuous improvement.
You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most user experience professionals. In this deck, I share my techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
I also share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
Brainstorming is the set of techniques of generating ideas. All techniques have much in common, but you can pick the best way of brainstorming taking into account conditions, materials, time, and a client.
Presented at Agile Bath & Bristol (21st March 2017)
If software development is a co-operative game, as Alistair Cockburn observed, then what kind of game is Scrum? Lots of people are playing it — or say they are — but there seems to be some disagreement about what the point of the game is, how to play it and even, in many cases, what the rules are. This talk looks at Scrum and other agile approaches through the lens of nomic games, hypothesis-driven development and fun.
As individual contributors and non-senior management, we're always trying to figure out how to get leaders to see and implement DevOps. But what if I told you, you didn't need management to implement DevOps? This talk will give several practical tips that anyone in the technical organization can do to help implement a DevOps type culture.
Write less. Write better. It’s not just about doing away with words, but instead, improving the user experience by presenting the right information, at the right time, in the right format, to the right audience, and allowing them to make the right decision to stop reading content and start doing what they need to do. From search tools to airlines to the use of clear images, tables, or words, the goal of this session is to help you understand the right things to do to spend less time writing, and more time helping your company, your clients, and your readers reduce headaches and increase profits. See samples, join the discussion, and keep your words to a minimum.
Ideal slides (and live presentation) if you are looking to:
Develop video for use online:
Find out how to create and upload video to help users "get the picture." Get people to like your product and then buy it, which makes you money.
Create better content in Word: Find out how to best use styles to effectively manage content within your portfolio.
Reduce the amount to time spent manually adjusting content over and over and over and over again. That saves time. Time is money. Save money.
Share and collaborate with others:
Find out how to use the cloud to work together and increase productivity. Fewer back and forth conversations makes it faster to get to market. That saves money. And it makes money.
Publish content to the most popular formats: Find out how to convert your content to online formats with minimal effort, for maximum result.Single source publishing to multiple channels means spending less money, earning more money, and a smarter investment of money.
See and do. That's a powerful combination. During the lecture and demo, we showed you the benefits of the tools and processes, and now you can review all the slides in detail!
"A scenario is a description of a person’s interaction with a system.
Scenarios help focus design efforts on the user’s requirements, which are distinct from technical or business requirements.
Scenarios may be related to ‘use cases’, which describe interactions at a technical level. Unlike use cases, however, scenarios can be understood by people who do not have any technical background. They are therefore suitable for use during participatory design activities." http://infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/scenarios/
Applying an intersectionality lens in data scienceData Con LA
Data Con LA 2020
Description
Data analytics is all about asking good questions and seeking informed answers that address a real need. But how do you decide which questions to ask, and whose needs are prioritized? Intersectionality, or overlapping race, gender, and other identity groupings that can result in discrimination, is a powerful framework to guide the design and execution of data science projects across industries and subject areas. An intersectionality framework challenges us to look more deeply at the structural and systemic underpinnings of the data and unpack assumptions around how the data is collected, analyzed, and presented in its context. At every stage of the data science project lifecycle, an intersectionality lens supports equitable results because it accounts for all identities within the scope of the project. In the definition and design phase, this requires attention to sources of subjectivity around the question or experiment to mitigate possible bias. During data collection, where and how data is collected determines whether the experiment is an accurate reflection of the environment and whether the representation of identities present leaves a population of people behind. Throughout the analysis, structuring and classifying data in traditional ways may not recognize the various groups that do not fall under "traditional" categories, opening the door to preconceived notions that can manifest as bias. Finally, this framework raises critical questions during the presentation and delivery phase: how is data from the experiment being framed? When presenting findings, are you subconsciously omitting negative outcomes?
*What is intersectionality?
*Opportunities for Bias in Data Science Projects
*Action Items
Speakers
Daphne Cheung, Disney, Data Scientist
Rachel Whaley, LA Tech4Good
Boring presentations by whatzyourpoint incLMI Academy
What research tells us about the making of better business presentations.
Visit our website (www.whatzyourpoint.com) and Facebook page to learn more about this valuable skill.
The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "Brainstorming" and will show you how to use group thinking to get more and better ideas.
Witness wednesdays informing agile software development with continuous user...Rebecca Destello
In the startup world speed to market is everything.
This talk covers how it is possible to embed user insights into a rapid software development cycle by conducting usability studies that break the stereotype that "research takes too long."
Justin Marx and Rebecca Destello illustrate how to plan, conduct, analyze and inform development sprints in just one week with what famously became known as "Witness Wednesdays."
Justin Marx, Product Designer and Rebecca Destello, Manager, Research & Insights - both with Atlas Informatics.
Put the key stakeholders in the same room with an unlimited modelling surface, and some tricks, and you'll end up not only with a viable model, but also with skeleton for continuous improvement.
You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most user experience professionals. In this deck, I share my techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
I also share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
Brainstorming is the set of techniques of generating ideas. All techniques have much in common, but you can pick the best way of brainstorming taking into account conditions, materials, time, and a client.
Presented at Agile Bath & Bristol (21st March 2017)
If software development is a co-operative game, as Alistair Cockburn observed, then what kind of game is Scrum? Lots of people are playing it — or say they are — but there seems to be some disagreement about what the point of the game is, how to play it and even, in many cases, what the rules are. This talk looks at Scrum and other agile approaches through the lens of nomic games, hypothesis-driven development and fun.
As individual contributors and non-senior management, we're always trying to figure out how to get leaders to see and implement DevOps. But what if I told you, you didn't need management to implement DevOps? This talk will give several practical tips that anyone in the technical organization can do to help implement a DevOps type culture.
Write less. Write better. It’s not just about doing away with words, but instead, improving the user experience by presenting the right information, at the right time, in the right format, to the right audience, and allowing them to make the right decision to stop reading content and start doing what they need to do. From search tools to airlines to the use of clear images, tables, or words, the goal of this session is to help you understand the right things to do to spend less time writing, and more time helping your company, your clients, and your readers reduce headaches and increase profits. See samples, join the discussion, and keep your words to a minimum.
Ideal slides (and live presentation) if you are looking to:
Develop video for use online:
Find out how to create and upload video to help users "get the picture." Get people to like your product and then buy it, which makes you money.
Create better content in Word: Find out how to best use styles to effectively manage content within your portfolio.
Reduce the amount to time spent manually adjusting content over and over and over and over again. That saves time. Time is money. Save money.
Share and collaborate with others:
Find out how to use the cloud to work together and increase productivity. Fewer back and forth conversations makes it faster to get to market. That saves money. And it makes money.
Publish content to the most popular formats: Find out how to convert your content to online formats with minimal effort, for maximum result.Single source publishing to multiple channels means spending less money, earning more money, and a smarter investment of money.
See and do. That's a powerful combination. During the lecture and demo, we showed you the benefits of the tools and processes, and now you can review all the slides in detail!
"A scenario is a description of a person’s interaction with a system.
Scenarios help focus design efforts on the user’s requirements, which are distinct from technical or business requirements.
Scenarios may be related to ‘use cases’, which describe interactions at a technical level. Unlike use cases, however, scenarios can be understood by people who do not have any technical background. They are therefore suitable for use during participatory design activities." http://infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/scenarios/
Applying an intersectionality lens in data scienceData Con LA
Data Con LA 2020
Description
Data analytics is all about asking good questions and seeking informed answers that address a real need. But how do you decide which questions to ask, and whose needs are prioritized? Intersectionality, or overlapping race, gender, and other identity groupings that can result in discrimination, is a powerful framework to guide the design and execution of data science projects across industries and subject areas. An intersectionality framework challenges us to look more deeply at the structural and systemic underpinnings of the data and unpack assumptions around how the data is collected, analyzed, and presented in its context. At every stage of the data science project lifecycle, an intersectionality lens supports equitable results because it accounts for all identities within the scope of the project. In the definition and design phase, this requires attention to sources of subjectivity around the question or experiment to mitigate possible bias. During data collection, where and how data is collected determines whether the experiment is an accurate reflection of the environment and whether the representation of identities present leaves a population of people behind. Throughout the analysis, structuring and classifying data in traditional ways may not recognize the various groups that do not fall under "traditional" categories, opening the door to preconceived notions that can manifest as bias. Finally, this framework raises critical questions during the presentation and delivery phase: how is data from the experiment being framed? When presenting findings, are you subconsciously omitting negative outcomes?
*What is intersectionality?
*Opportunities for Bias in Data Science Projects
*Action Items
Speakers
Daphne Cheung, Disney, Data Scientist
Rachel Whaley, LA Tech4Good
Field Research at the Speed of BusinessPaul Sherman
Field research: to many it's the gold standard of user-centered design. Want to learn more about how your current or prospective customers think, work, live and play? Go observe them.
If you're early or even mid-career, organising, carrying out and analysing the results of field research can seem daunting and time-consuming. This tutorial will provide you with information and resources you can use immediately to start conducting insightful and effective field research.
Presented at UX in the City Oxford 2017, April 2017, Oxford UK.
This is a presentation for a book discussion I'm leading. The presentation covers Don Norman's book The Design of Everyday Things. This useful book provides a framework product design that focuses on solving the right problem, and doing so in a way that meets human needs and capabilities.
Tools and Resources for Transition from Libraries to Wider Community Use Cent...CILIP
Leon Cruickshank's (Professor of Design and Creative Exchange, Lancaster University) presentation to the CILIP 2017 Conference in Manchester #CILIPConf17
This is an interactive session to introduce a collection of freely available tools and resources enabling the transition from libraries into wider community use centres. These tools were co-designed by a group of 20 librarians in Lancashire this co-design process brought together expertise from junior staff to Julie Bell, the head of libraries for Lancashire. They worked in close collaboration with design researchers from Lancaster University, funded by the Leapfrog project (www.Leapfrog.tools). Leapfrog is a £1.2million project that seeks to transform public engagement by design.
WORKSHOP: Making the World Easier with Interaction DesignCheryl Platz
An updated version of an Intro to Interaction Design workshop I've taught intermittently since 2012. Intended age level is middle to high school age students, but is also appropriate for adults curious about the field.
The first portion (excluding the optional heuristic review) can be taught, though tight, in approximately 90 minutes. With the optional second portion, allocate a minimum of 2 hours. More time allows for better discussion and perhaps expansion of the sketching into some flows. See the back of the deck for additional instructor notes.
Recommended materials:
Printer paper (~5 sheets per student minimum)
Pencils and erasers
I have delivered this workshop to over 500 students:
Amazon GirlsWhoCode Camp - 2015
Microsoft DigiGirlz Camp (Redmond) - 2012, 2013, 2014
UW's Dawgbytes Camp - 2012
For a blog post about the pilot sessions in 2012, as well as some examples from student sketches, see http://blog.cherylplatz.com/?p=181
To inquire about booking me to teach this workshop in your environment, email cheryl@cherylplatz.com.
User Experience as an Organizational Development ToolDonovan Chandler
Developers sometimes begin a project by racing to the specification document and an ERD. Wait! Even if you're developing iteratively, there's a huge amount of potential being missed in most projects.
I propose that your projects will be more successful and valuable to your clients if you think of yourself not just as a database developer but as a process consultant. This presentation outlines a few concepts for addressing the human and political aspects of database system development and concludes with an example scenario.
This was presented at a FileMaker training session and is my first public presentation. Thank you for looking!
A Design Thinking Workshop for the MSIS CoreCarl M. Briggs Ph..docxblondellchancy
A Design Thinking Workshop for the MSIS Core
Carl M. Briggs Ph.D.
Fettig/Whirlpool Faculty Fellow
Co-Director, Business Operations Consulting Workshop
Fall 2019
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Outline
Welcome & Introductions
What is Design Thinking?
About the class
Exercises:
Conditioning Exercise
Show Don’t Tell
Welcome & Introductions
Introductions…
Professor Carl M. Briggs Ph.D.
26 years of experience leading, and managing projects, and teaching the principles of effective project management to undergraduates, MBA’s and executives in the United States, Europe and Asia. Academic appointments in the United States (IU) , the Europe (Berlin) and Asia (Seoul).
Married to Annette Hill Briggs and father to Mariah, Ben and Emily.
Academia
Industries
Companies
Consulting
Mfg.
Healthcare Life Sciences
Supply Chain & Strategic Sourcing
Regions
NASA
Toyota
Samsung
FedEx
WalMart
Samsung
US DOD
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Why we’re here…
?
?
?
What kind of problems have you solved?
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MY STORY
YOUR WORLD…
MY WORLD…
What is Design Thinking?
BAD DESIGN MAY NOT BE IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS
BUT OVER TIME THE TRUTH BEGINS TO SHOW
UNTIL IT IS ALL THAT IS LEFT, AND ALL
THAT YOUR CUSTOMERS REMEMBER
Bad design is all around us…
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Design is not everything, but it somehow gets into everything.
Ralph Caplan, By Design
Design Thinking is …
… human-centered, collaborative, possibility-driven, options-focused, and iterative.
… the confidence that new, better things are possible and that you can make them happen.
Ralph Caplan, born January 4, 1925 is a design consultant, writer and public speaker. After serving in the Marines in WWII, he graduated from Earlham College and then went on to Indiana University for his Masters Degree. He later taught at Wabash College before moving to NYC where he became editor of Industrial Design.
He is the author of By Design: Why There are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons.
He is considered a founding father of modern design thinking.
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Roots of Design Thinking…
Developed/Made famous by Tim Brown at IDEO, taught at the Stanford School of Design.
Very influential in design circles, but becoming more influential in business
DEFINITION:
“A making-based problem solving process that is rooted in human empathy, done iteratively in collaborative multi-disciplinary teams.”
The Thought Leaders…
Tim Brown (IDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAinLaT42xY
When did Design Thinking Become Small?
“Instead of starting with technology, the team started with people and culture…”
Design vs. Design Thinking
Design became small when it became the tool of consumerism
“Instead of starting with technology, the team started with people and culture…”
Design Thinking is about collaborative human creativity applied using a specific mindset and process framework focused on solving a wicked problem
Collaborative
Human
Creativity
Mindset
The Design Thin ...
Similar to Minimalism (Presented to STC WDC and InfoDevDC) (20)
Automating DITA Publishing: How Gulfstream Publishes Style-rich, Interactive ...Publishing Smarter
If you have watched a TV show or movie in which characters travel the world in a Gulfstream, you have seen a company that elevates aviation to an art form. Sleek lines, luxurious cabins, and an ongoing pursuit of excellence are what we see onscreen.
Behind the scenes, there is DITA. Flight manuals, operators manuals, handbooks, and other content is sourced from one set of DITA materials. Gulfstream then publishes it in a system to PDF that is as functional, professional, and sharp looking as the airplanes they support.
How Gulfstream is doing this, though, is another story. It includes highs and lows of discovery, challenge, and success from open communications between partners. The experience of delivering the best looking and the best functioning documentation in the industry means months of effort to create a push-button approach to convert a DITA map to a finished digital PDF that provides a complete solution to online documentation for the cockpit.
This story is a continuing exploration of the boundaries of automation, compliance, design, and a desire to enhance the usability (and the re-usability) of content from creation to the final delivery. See how it works and what DITA can do to change the way we fly.
Convince Management to Invest in a CCMS (Lessons learned)Publishing Smarter
You are keenly aware of the benefits of a Component Content Management System (CCMS). Next steps; develop a business case to present to management. Answering their questions about an important investment decision means prepping for their key questions. This webinar presents you with questions management may ask, information on researching answers, and guidance on how to make your case. Learn through stories of companies and people who have a CCMS. Hear what they did to convince their management teams to make the long term investments that pay dividends for years to come.
Develop key components of a content strategy
Connect the implementation of the strategy with
Improved workflows for creating, managing, and publishing content
Reduction of risk in lack of compliance, inconsistency, missing information
Generation of revenue through effective multi-channel content delivery
Ask (and answer) questions related to tool selection
Hands-on with FrameMaker and DITA to create topics
Publish PDF and HTML5 formats
Implement an Adobe Experience Manager-based solution to ingest, manage, and publish content
DITA: From “Do I?” to “Done It!”: An Automotive Case Study that can apply to ...Publishing Smarter
This session showcases how documentation for one of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world was to migrated to DITA allowing for publishing of hundreds of manuals in over a dozen languages.
Vehicle documentation (owner’s manuals, user guides, quick reference guides, etc) are as crucial to a car as the brakes, engine, or chassis. Without these a car is not finished, and cannot be shipped and sold. Documentation failure can cost over $100,000 per MINUTE if it results in a line being shut down.
Learn about the journey and discovery of concerns, project scope definition and change, trials and tribulations of getting tools to do what was needed, and the net results. Along the way a component content management system, author tools, review processes, and much more had to be planned, tested, implemented, and supported.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is the accepted industry standard for creating structured content. A Unified Content Strategy is the methodical and purposeful management of your information assets across all divisions of your enterprise, in a way that breaks down silos and makes information easy to find and use.
Brakes, engine, or chassis is mission-critical for a car. Equally important is all the documentation (owner’s manuals, user guides, quick reference guides, etc). Without these, a car is not finished, and cannot be shipped or sold. When supporting one of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world meant migrating to DITA, a solution that supported publishing had to work right. It had to work the first time, and every time.
Learn about the journey and discovery of concerns, project scope definition and change, trials and tribulations of getting tools to do what was needed, and the net results. Along the way, a component content management system, authoring tools, review processes, and much more had to be planned, tested, implemented, and supported.
Takeaways:
• Attendees should be able to clearly see what worked, what didn’t, learn why, and avoid similar pitfalls in their path to structured content.
• Identify how a tight time frame, expectations vs reality, last minute changes, and many late nights culminated into results that showcase the best and worst of tech comm and related tools and processes.
• Discover an automated publishing solution, where one source of content is transformed to multiple channels and uploaded to a CCMS.
Make the move from basic documents to structured documentsPublishing Smarter
Word is great when you have content that is managed by SharePoint, or based on standard and highly-enforced templates, or you have a team of developers to support your team of writers. However, there are too many ways for too many people to cause too many problems. Style overrides, manual formats, or just incorrect use of a template can haunt good content. You spend time and effort to make content great; now put a little bit more time into getting to know a tool that isn’t created for everyone. It’s created for those of us who work in technical communication. It’s time for Adobe FrameMaker.
In this session, you will learn how to
» Evaluate a Word document for content quality
» Rework content for a topic-based model
» Import a Word file to Adobe FrameMaker
» Create a structured workflow
» Migrate legacy content to a structured format
» Move your content to a CCMS
» Publish single sourced content to multiple channels, formats & devices
Give in to the power of the Dark Side: Tech Comm and Marketing are ConvergingPublishing Smarter
Video: https://youtu.be/AXPG_d-XiZk
We’ve come to think of it like this: content is content. Marketing and technical communications are generated for the same end users at different points in the product adoption life-cycle. The distinction between marketing communications and technical communications is far less pronounced than it once was. Managers sometimes see little difference in skill-sets and often put content creators together in one role or department – and maybe they’re right. During our careers we’re often dealing with a lot of technical content but also creating marketing communications; we’re in a good position to see how very little difference there might be between them. They’re both an always-on dialogue with the user, just at different points in the product adoption life-cycle. We’ll explore the audiences who consume content, ideas related to a seamless content experience, how both training and support factor into this, and talk about implementation ideas.
Make It All About Your Audience (Deliver What They Want, How They Want, When ...Publishing Smarter
It’s all about the audience and we hear that all the time. Know your audience. Articles and discussions abound about the informed consumer, audience metrics, and personas. How do you actually organize and create content geared to multiple audiences?
Learn tips and techniques for planning, writing, and publishing which help you deliver the right information, to the right audience, in the right format, at the right time, and let them make the right decisions.
DITA can help both marketing and technical communications teams connect with customers. In a non-technical way, this slide deck (and the associated presentation) shows how and why it matters to connect with your customer using all the tools at your command.
Text-rich, illustration-heavy, table-filled, overly-hyphenated manuals and docs sit on the shelf and never get read.
Today, we read information in the format we want, on whatever device we want, and with just enough information to support what we need to do.
Learn more about topic-based writing, what it is and what it can do for your approach to documentation.
Any device, any time, any format.
Information on business models in Canada, and some background on considerations when starting a business in Alberta. Focus is on general ideas, but details about one tech comm business addressed specifically in the session.
When creating technical documentation it's good to know how long it will take. This presentation (delivered to the STC in Calgary Alberta) explores estimating such projects as well as an overview of the estimating process.
Metrics that matter Making the business case that documentation has valuePublishing Smarter
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Metrics that matter: Making the business case that documentation has valuePublishing Smarter
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Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
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A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
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Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
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Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
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Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
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3. Tech Comm 101: Know your audience
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Here because nothing else you had planned looked
good?
Here because the topic is something you
Have a basic interest in?
Have a lot of interest in?
Love more than almost anything else on earth?
Already generally familiar with this topic?
4. Housekeeping and note taking
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Not all slides or topics are
equally weighted
Use some, discard others
Slides speed varies
(reference)
Questions? Ask along the
way!
I’d love to claim
errors/typos is on
purpose… they isn’t,
weren’t never, and ain’t; I’ll
fix ‘em as I can…
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5. About your speaker
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Publishing Smarter:
President
Content strategist,
publishing technologies
expert, author, and geek-
enough
Certified Technical Trainer
DITA
Content management
Topic-based writing
Society for Technical
Communications
Vice President
STC Associate Fellow
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6. Standard disclaimer
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In the interest of brevity I
will make some blanket
statements to keep it
simple
It’s not all 100% “the
truth”, but I’ll stay close
Purists may complain
And they are wrong!
(except when they are
right)
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7. The irony is that I need 150 slides
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Core principles of minimalism
8. Ideals of minimalism
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To the largest extent possible, a product should
document itself and do so
Explicitly, or
By being intuitive through good design
We have to ensure documentation and product
design fit together to let the user make the right
decision on use, because we provide
the right information
at the right time
in the right format
to the right audience
9. History of minimalism
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Developed for graphical user interfaces (GUI) and
grew out of a need for great usability
Minimalism can be applied to tech writing as well
(standards like Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA), or more casually)
Similar theory: less is more
11. Core principles of minimalism
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1. Focus on an action-oriented approach
Tasks are core to what people are doing, so let them do it!
2. Anchor the tool in the task domain
Ensure you understand the users’ world
3. Support error recognition and recovery
Recognize the importance of troubleshooting information
4. Support reading to do, study, and locate
Ensure that users can find the information they need
• Carroll, J. “Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel”
12. My suggestion: Also factor in today’s
audience
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Today’s audience is
More engaged Interactive
Eager Easily bored/misled/lost
Today’s audience engages/interacts
Not by being interested in what you write, deliver, or say
Not by talking to you (or your people) very often
Is engaged and interacts with present and
future audiences, and can impact perception
What you do now is noticed
What you did then is found
What you do in the future depends on both
13. 1. Action oriented approach
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Provide an immediate opportunity to act
Ensure tasks are front and center, and that they start with the first steps,
NOT with a lot of extra content. People want to DO things.
Encourage and support exploration and innovation
Don’t feed users every action. If it’s obvious, move on. If the task is
simple and the audience known, don’t include it, or summarize it.
Respect the integrity of the user’s activities
Keep the relevant info nearby, but don’t link them to a bunch of random
seeming places; instead support them in completing the task
In content, prioritize ‘how to’ (tasks) early
Use other content (concepts and references) to support tasks
In tools, let people do what they intend to do
Don’t put up roadblocks and obstacles. Ever. For any reason.
14. I presented in Edmonton, Alberta 1 day…
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15. … the text didn’t do what I thought it
should…
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From 114 words to 675 ~40% reduction
Message is cleaner, easier to understand
Translation costs decrease
Message changes to taking away blame
16. …and this is what the airline did the NEXT
day
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17. Is this respect for the integrity of the user’s action
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19. “Provide an immediate opportunity to act”
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Tasks are
front and
center!
20. “Encourage & support exploration and
innovation”
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Access to help,
but no painful
step-by-step
21. “Respect the integrity of the user’s activities”
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Focused links,
support the
goals
22. Recap: Action oriented approach
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Provide an immediate opportunity to act
Ensure tasks are front and center, and that they start with the
first steps, NOT with a lot of extra content. People want to DO
things.
Encourage and support exploration and innovation
Don’t feed users every action. If it’s obvious, move on. If the
task is simple and the audience known, don’t include it, or
summarize it.
Respect the integrity of the user’s activities
Keep the relevant info nearby, but don’t link them to a bunch of
random seeming places; instead support them in completing
the task
23. 2. Anchor tool in the task domain
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Select or design instructional activities that are real
tasks
If you document something, do so from the perspective of
doing something, not just documenting for the sake of features
Components of the instruction should reflect the task
structure
Organize the content so that it follows a natural progression
based on the tasks users actually perform
24. Good and bad of real tasks
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25. 3. Error recognition and recovery
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Prevent mistakes whenever possible
Provide error information when actions are error
prone or when correction is difficult
Provide error information that supports detection,
diagnosis, and recovery
Provide on-the-spot error information
28. More good error recognition/recovery
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29. 4. Read to do, study, and locate
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Be brief, don’t spell out everything
Users don’t need every bit of information about every bit of
functionality PLUS the entire backstory
Be consistent
Write things the same way in files, across publications
Don’t bury important content
If it matters THAT much, make it stand out; if it doesn’t matter,
don’t bother writing it
Provide closure in tasks
Where needed, let people know it’s done if there isn’t a natural
way to know they are finished
30. Be brief, don’t spell out everything
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Rather than text
The breather is located on
top of the pump and is
usually capped in black.
Consider this instead:
Rather than text
The butterfly valve is
located between the main
tank and the exhaust pipe.
Consider this instead:
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31. Being brief can include better organization
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Supported formats include:
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group (common on the
web)
AI: Adobe Illustrator (A vector format for line drawings, but can
be converted to other formats as well)
Extensio
n
Type Notes
jpeg Joint Photographic Experts
Group
Common web format
ai Adobe Illustrator Vector format for line
drawings
32. Being brief means different information types
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A comparison of sizes tells you that whales are big:
The average US male is 5’9”
The average US female is 5’4”
The average Beluga whale is 18” long
The average Blue whale is 98” long
A table can tell you the same thing
Mammal Length/height
Human being 5”7
Beluga whale 18”
Blue whale 98”
34. Be consistent in writing
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Don’t “mix it up”
Select File > New
Choose File > New
Click File > New
On the File menu, select/choose/click New
This will NOT help your users
36. Don’t bury information
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Learning’s complex
enough
People clutter docs with:
Screen shots
Unneeded images
Useless text
Readers don’t have time
They want to just do the
job
Stop telling them
everything you (or the
SME) knows
Stop nesting (burying)
tasks
1. Select File > Save As
The Save dialog
appears.
2. Select a location
3. If required, create a
folder
a) Click New Folder
A new folder is created
b) Type a name for the
folder
c) Press Enter
37. Deliver what is relevant. The end.
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No Yes
38. Provide closure in tasks
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This sample is horrible
1. Select File > Open
The Open dialog
appears
2. Choose a location
Available files display
3. Select a file
The file is highlighted
4. Click Open
The file opens and
displays onscreen
Drop useless results
1. Select File > Open
2. Select a location and
file
3. Click Open
Provide closure when it’s
not totally obvious.
ONLY.
1. Press Ctrl+s
The asterisk by the
page number is cleared
Unsaved
Saved
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39. Recap: Read to do, study, and locate
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Be brief, don’t spell out everything
Users don’t need every bit of information about every bit of
functionality PLUS the entire backstory
Be consistent
Write things the same way in files, across publications
Don’t bury important content
If it matters THAT much, make it stand out; if it doesn’t matter,
don’t bother writing it
Provide closure in tasks
Where needed, let people know it’s done if there isn’t a natural
way to know they are finished
40. Tips to get you started on minimalism
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Reworking source content
41. Work with images: Source is text
heavy/mixed
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It has been said a picture is
worth 1000 words. If this is
true, it makes sense to use
images to show ideas,
visualize things, or to add
life to dry text. You can add
images to web pages as long
as they are in a supported
format.
To insert images first select
where you want in on your
web page. Then choose Insert
in the Image menu. There are
many image formats
supported (web formats),
and since pictures draw the
eye to a specific location, you
may want to add maps or
charts.
If maps or charts are used
they can visually explain ideas
that may take many pages to
write about. They can even
make content feel more alive,
so if it makes sense, add
them to reports to accentuate
an idea that matters.
Once you know the format
you need, select a file location
and click Map or Chart if
needed. We support jpg, gif,
png, svg (and we convert
Illustrator or Photoshop too!).
Click on a file, then Insert.
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42. Remember: Tasks come first
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It has been said a picture is
worth 1000 words. If this is
true, it makes sense to use
images to show ideas,
visualize things, or to add
life to dry text. You can add
images to web pages as long
as they are in a supported
format.
To insert images first select
where you want in on your
web page. Then choose Insert
in the Image menu. There are
many image formats
supported (web formats),
and since pictures draw the
eye to a specific location, you
may want to add maps or
charts.
If maps or charts are used
they can visually explain ideas
that may take many pages to
write about. They can even
make content feel more alive,
so if it makes sense, add
them to reports to accentuate
an idea that matters.
Once you know the format
you need, select a file location
and click Map or Chart if
needed. We support jpg, gif,
png, svg (and we convert
Illustrator or Photoshop too!).
Click on a file, then Insert.
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43. Repeat for concepts
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It has been said a picture is
worth 1000 words. If this is
true, it makes sense to use
images to show ideas,
visualize things, or to add
life to dry text. You can add
images to web pages as long
as they are in a supported
format.
To insert images first select
where you want in on your
web page. Then choose Insert
in the Image menu. There are
many image formats
supported (web formats),
and since pictures draw the
eye to a specific location, you
may want to add maps or
charts.
If maps or charts are used
they can visually explain ideas
that may take many pages to
write about. They can even
make content feel more alive,
so if it makes sense, add
them to reports to accentuate
an idea that matters.
Once you know the format
you need, select a file location
and click Map or Chart if
needed. We support jpg, gif,
png, svg (and we convert
Illustrator or Photoshop too!).
Click on a file, then Insert.
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44. And for references
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It has been said a picture is
worth 1000 words. If this is
true, it makes sense to use
images to show ideas,
visualize things, or to add
life to dry text. You can add
images to web pages as long
as they are in a supported
format.
To insert images first select
where you want in on your
web page. Then choose Insert
in the Image menu. There are
many image formats
supported (web formats),
and since pictures draw the
eye to a specific location, you
may want to add maps or
charts.
If maps or charts are used
they can visually explain ideas
that may take many pages to
write about. They can even
make content feel more alive,
so if it makes sense, add
them to reports to accentuate
an idea that matters.
Once you know the format
you need, select a file location
and click Map or Chart if
needed. We support jpg, gif,
png, svg (and we convert
Illustrator or Photoshop too!).
Click on a file, then Insert.
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46. Now, the task title reads: Import pictures
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Images, maps, and chats can be added
to web pages.
Prereq: Ensure graphics are in a
supported web-friendly file format.
1. Select the location to insert an image.
2. Select Image > Insert.
If inserting a Map or Chart, specify
this.
3. Select a folder location.
4. Select a file.
5. Click Insert.
6. Configure the image as needed.
47. Concept title: Reasons to use pictures
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It has been said a picture is worth
1000 words; use images to show
ideas, visualize complex ideas, or to
add life to dry text.
Pictures draw the eye to a specific
location. If maps or charts are used
they can graphically explain an idea
that may take many pages to write
about. They can even make content
feel more alive, so if it makes sense,
add them to reports to accentuate an
idea that matters.
48. Reference title: Supported image formats
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Graphic types, how they are used,
and background information.
Format Function Notes
.jpg Raster based
images
displayed online
(web).
Our conversion tools allow
multiple options, test for
best compatibility.
.gif
.png
.svg Vector based
images
displayed online
(web)
Our conversion tools allow
multiple options, test for
best compatibility.
.ps Adobe
Photoshop
Raster based source.
.ai Adobe Illustrator Vector based source.
49. Summing up the discussion,
and options to continue it.
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Conclusion and contact
50. About this session
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Basics of minimalism
1. Focus on an action-oriented approach
2. Anchor the tool in the task domain
3. Support error recognition and recovery
4. Support reading to do, study, and locate
Light examples
Serious ideas
51. Services
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We help clients:
Create great content
Manage content as an
asset
Deliver content the right
way
Socialize the message
Listen to the consumer
Improve experiences by
helping
Create great content
Manage content as an
asset
Deliver content the right
way
…
By helping clients:
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52. Follow up contact information
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905 833 8448 (Eastern Time)
bernard@publishingsmarter.com
www.linkedin.com/in/bernardaschwand
en
@publishsmarter
www.publishingsmarter.com