Innovation occurs more frequently on the threshold between disciplines that, theoretically, do not have much in common, like technology and humanities. It is in this doorway, this liminal space, that the best product improvements and groundbreaking concepts are born. One of the most successful and famous examples of a liminal experience is the calligraphy class … Continue reading About Liminal Spaces and Technology
Machine Learning: Supervised Learning Overview
I’ve just completed one more course of Pluralsight's Data Science Foundation learning path: “Play-by-play: Machine Learning Exposed” by James Weaver and Katherine Beaumont. The course consists of three modules: Machine Learning introduction, supervised learning, and reinforcement learning. In this post, I’ll focus on some important concepts and definitions of supervised learning, one of the three … Continue reading Machine Learning: Supervised Learning Overview
Developer Docs: Using Antora to Create a Unified Output with Content from Different Repos
Some weeks ago, I joined an exciting new project at my company, where dozens of development teams and stakeholders collaborate to leverage AIOps, DevOps and ValueOps data to help our customers make better business decisions. In this project, I'm responsible for the end-user documentation and also for designing a content solution to create a single … Continue reading Developer Docs: Using Antora to Create a Unified Output with Content from Different Repos
Project Management for Technical Writing: Structuring the Content and Organizing Tasks Logically
In the third post related to the Udemy Course I'm taking on Project Management for Technical Writers, I'll explain in my own words a strategy introduced in one of the modules, aimed at structuring content and organizing tasks logically using mind-mapping tools. Note: You may want to read previous posts I wrote about this course: … Continue reading Project Management for Technical Writing: Structuring the Content and Organizing Tasks Logically
Data Analytics, IoT, Big Data and ML – an Overview
I've recently started a new course about Data Science offered to my company and created by different authors on Pluralsight. The course consists of 23 modules which range from basics of data driven business to data science, AI and ML fundamentals, data visualizations, communications, and statistics foundations. Today I've finished one of the modules, created … Continue reading Data Analytics, IoT, Big Data and ML – an Overview
Project Management for Technical Writing – Defining a Documentation Plan
I've recently started to work on a new project with a very complex structure, involving different teams, products and technologies. To make sure that I can deal with this complexity and deliver the best quality for the product documentation, I've decided to sign up to a course on Udemy to learn how to manage complex … Continue reading Project Management for Technical Writing – Defining a Documentation Plan
How to Create Taxonomies for Technical Documentation
On my quest for best practices for taxonomies I‘ve come across an insightful webinar on this topic hosted on BrightTALk and conducted by Scott Abel (the Content Wrangler) and Heather Hedden. Heather is a taxonomy consultant for intranets, enterprise content management, SharePoint, research databases, websites, e-commerce, etc. I‘ve summarized the main takeaways below: What Does … Continue reading How to Create Taxonomies for Technical Documentation
Providing Content Recommendations to Improve UX
I'm currently researching different ways to provide content recommendations to the users of our technical documentation. Content recommendations can dramatically improve the user experience of our readers, especially when it comes to guides containing hundreds and even thousands of topics. Because let's be honest, nobody wants to read a technical guide cover to cover, just … Continue reading Providing Content Recommendations to Improve UX
Adding Interactivity to your Content
I'm always thinking about new ways to create clear and compelling content that can help my readers better understand the whys and how-tos of a feature. To enhance the user experience and usability of the content I create, I’ve been playing around for a while with the concept of interactivity. The idea is to prompt … Continue reading Adding Interactivity to your Content
NoCode
I've recently joined a MeetUp group called "NoCode" that aims at helping people to create mobile apps without code. Yesterday the group held a second session (this time online, because of the Corona virus situation) where we had the chance to delve into the NoCode subject and, more specifically, about how to create mobile apps … Continue reading NoCode
