"Evidence from the last 20 years of work in cognitive psychology indicate that we use the letters within a word to recognize a word" [Read more]
Wednesday, 15 November 2006
Tuesday, 14 November 2006
STC Annual Conference: I will be presenting a paper
Posted on 22:48 by Unknown
I will be presenting 'Low Cost Usability Testing' on 9 December at 9:45 AM. Be there.
See the Conference website
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
See the Conference website
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Google to Merge Writely and Spreadsheets to Form Google Docs
Posted on 02:17 by Unknown
Breaking news: Google will announce tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference a new product called Google Docs, which will merge Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a collaboration and document management solution, according to sources.
The new offering will be available at docs.google.com, although that address produces a 404 error right now. [Read more]
docs.google.com works now.
Saturday, 7 October 2006
A technical writer's worst enemy is another technical writer
Posted on 00:03 by Unknown
Why your coworkers think you are a technical writer with a stick up your a** [Read more]
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Thursday, 5 October 2006
Use Old Words When Writing for Findability
Posted on 03:55 by Unknown
"Familiar words spring to mind when users create their search queries.
If your writing favors made-up terms over legacy words, users won't
find your site."
[Read more on Useit.com]
If your writing favors made-up terms over legacy words, users won't
find your site."
[Read more on Useit.com]
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Thursday, 28 September 2006
Quality of Communication
Posted on 05:19 by Unknown
Although technically, e-mail (with or without a hyphen) and its even faster cousins, IM and text messaging, make communicating across time and distance a breeze, it's still the quality of the communication that counts. [via Wired]
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Thursday, 17 August 2006
Death to Caps Lock
Posted on 00:13 by Unknown
"The antagonism toward the Caps Lock key extends beyond its misuse by 13-year-old trolls and naive users. Caps Lock is also responsible for failed entries of passwords and other case-sensitive phrases. Users of word processors are forced to retype any text that was entered with Caps Lock accidentally turned on." [via Wired]
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
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