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 …
FlipboardIcon 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. …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
"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
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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. …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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. …
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
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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. …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
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.
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
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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, …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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, …
