Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable Help Usable Help - Real help in real timeg2meyer.com Helpouts by Google leverages their Hangouts architecture to provide one-on-one real-time tutorials and assistance on a variety of topics. Instead of …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Best-selling sofware manualsg2meyer.com Two of the best selling books in 2014 were software manuals. For a video game. I don't mean that they were the bestsellers compared to other manuals. …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Engineering reductionismg2meyer.com It's said that every problem can be reduced to a flowchart. In fact, this is essential for the coming singularity. I always regarded this as …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Death throes of relevancyg2meyer.com The design exploration (aka masturbation) "Out of the Box" that was done under the aegis of Samsung was supposed to result in a "simple yet effective …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Evernote as a content distribution channeltypepad.com I’m addicted to Evernote. I use it throughout the day to capture my meeting notes and other thoughts. I was recently joking with a fellow Evernote …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable Help "URL" Stands for...? New Pew Report Has Surprising Stats on America's Tech Knowledge.Recode - LaurenGoodeBill Gates is well-known, but only 21 percent of American tech consumers recognize Sheryl Sandberg: The surprising results of Pew's survey on Americans' knowledge of technology. Are you all too familiar
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Standard reference for mobile doc developmentg2meyer.com Joe Welinske's Developing User Assistance for Mobile Apps has been revised and expanded. It was the first publication for practitioners to address …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Simplifying Armageddong2meyer.com Michael Dobbs, writing Nuclear Option for Smithsonian magazine, describes the iconic "Football" valise carried by the President of the United States. …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - So long, Macworldg2meyer.com After 30 years of publication, the venerable Macworld magazine will no longer produce a printed magazine. I'm inclined just to say they're out of …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Tiny tutorialsg2meyer.com While in many ways Vine represents the worst in the erosion of attention spans and polish, it can also be an effective tool for visual demonstration. …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable Help Guess Who Wrote Microsoft's 'Blue Screen of Death'Entrepreneur - Dave SmithIf you’ve ever used a Windows PC, you have most likely experienced the "Blue Screen of Death," which would show up when a program experienced a fatal error or became unresponsive. In later versions of
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Why everything is OKg2meyer.com Andy Hertzfeld, one of the fathers of Macintosh, writes about how "OK" became the universal "go ahead and do this" interface language for modern …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Not our job to make it easyg2meyer.com Mark Bernstein, writing Intuitive, argues that professional software doesn't always have to always make things intuitive because it makes things …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - How to make a design problem worse with documentationg2meyer.com About a year ago I wrote about my experience using an Energizer flashlight that would automatically turn itself off after a few seconds of use. The …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Managing prose as if it were codeg2meyer.com Frank Miller, writing Is Managing Content the Same as Managing Code? for CIDM, offers several important points on the pitfalls of writers using …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Tech writing with heartg2meyer.com James Somers, writing You’re Probably Using the Wrong Dictionary, observes that somewhere along the line our dictionaries were drained of life and …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Walkthroughs are cruft to be scraped awayg2meyer.com Sarah Perez, writing Rethinking the Mobile App “Walkthrough” for TechCrunch wonders if introductory UI walkthroughs are going too far. (And in the …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - A thousand words in a jiffyg2meyer.com David Smith, author of the RSS tool Feed Wrangler, writes about his methods and workflow for creating animated GIF files to supplement documentation. …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Generate good faked datag2meyer.com Here is yet another method to create faux information for use in screenshots and examples. Faker is a Python-based program that can generate almost …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Title goes hereg2meyer.com The website What Happens When Placeholder Text Doesn’t Get Replaced is the stuff that keeps tech writers awake at night. Who among us hasn't had this …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - An impressive online tutorialg2meyer.com The Portland-based software company Panic Inc has posted an amazing web-based tutorial for its Diet Coda web development app for iPad. Click the "Try …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable Help Bryan Wood on Twittertwitter.com - @bryanwx A woman attempting to take a picture at a hockey game in Sochi today. This may be one of my favorite pics ever.
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable Help Using copyright to keep repair manuals secret undermines circular economyThe GuardianWhen I was young, I remember running around my grandfather's workshop – benches strewn with wood shavings, drawers overflowing with tools, shelves lined with dog-eared repair manuals. Perhaps it was characteristic
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Don't tell me you love meg2meyer.com The iOS app Ember is called out for its unique approach to gathering user feedback. An in-app survey asks for the user's opinion on the app. If they …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Are we not men?g2meyer.com Bryan Cantrill, CEO of Joyent, writes about how using gender-specific pronouns in code comments is a firing offense. Is your documentation also …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Books aren't dead yetg2meyer.com A recent survey by Voxburner found that 62% of people between 16 and 24 years of age prefer printed books over ebooks. Speculating as to the cause, …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - Simplified iOS 7 screen shotsg2meyer.com The OS X utility Status Magic allows you to easily customize the status bar shown in iOS screen shots. This can be very useful for cleaning up …
Gordon Meyeradded this to Usable HelpFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Usable Help - A stick figure explains cryptographyg2meyer.com Jeff Moser, an Indiana-based software engineer, has created A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Presented in four acts, …
