This week I’m continuing my quest to become more technical. Today’s post is going to be a bit of a twofer. I am focusing on the popular software development platform GitHub and the lightweight markup language known as Markdown. I’ll briefly outline what they are, why we use them, and why I’m interested in them.Continue reading “Trying to Git Good”
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BCFO: Don’t Make Me Think Revisited by Steve Krug
Chapter Three: Billboard Design 101 Chapter 2 introduced the idea that a webpage is a billboard. It covered the importance of designing a webpage in such a way that critical information can be easily obtained by scanning. In this chapter of Don’t Make Me Think Revisited, Krug discusses the idea of conventions and how toContinue reading “BCFO: Don’t Make Me Think Revisited by Steve Krug”
BCFO: Don’t Make Me Think Revisited by Steve Krug
Chapter Two: How we really use the web This chapter is all about how people actually use the web. Krug opens the chapter with the comparison that designers like to think of their web pages as being great pieces of literature when in actuality, users just use them like a billboard that they’re driving pastContinue reading “BCFO: Don’t Make Me Think Revisited by Steve Krug”
Technically, It’s Communication
Why technical communication? There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t hear this question. Along with “Isn’t it boring?” or “Why bother? Nobody reads the instructions anyways.” I’m sure most people would find analyzing the steps to accomplishing a task boring, but that’s why it’s not for everyone. It’s for me. When IContinue reading “Technically, It’s Communication”
Monica Dailey 