STC Atlanta – Society for Technical Communication

The slides from this month’s presentation “User-centered design for technical communicators” are posted below. Thanks to Will Sansbury for a great presentation, and thanks to threebrick for sponsoring the meeting! More resources from the presentation are listed on Will’s blog. You can also follow him on Twitter.

November 14, 2009 9:30 AM ? 3:00 PM
Learn heuristics, card sorting, and usability testing!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Mirant Building – 1155 Perimeter Center West – Atlanta, Georgia 30338

At our September meeting, Jay Lambert from Integrated Learning Services led a discussion about best practices for instructional design. As promised, he has shared his notes with us, including links to the projects we reviewed. Presentation: “eLearning does not replace sound instructional design” When evaluating elearning, you should ask: Does it capture your attention? Is [...]

Usability Workshop Interested in learning how to run a usability test? Want to tell your employer how the product can be more user-friendly and explain the reasons behind it? Want to strengthen your resume by adding real world work in user experience techniques? Want to make your documentation more usable? Then come to the chapter’s [...]

For my last session today, I chose the one with the topic above. Bernard Aschwanden, Rob Hanna, and Rob Frankland are presenting.