Dear IxDAers, There's been some recent discussion about how to design online help. Did you know that there's a whole professional society, the Society for Technical Communication, that's all about writing help (specifically) and helping users (generally) and designing user experiences?
If you're working in user experience, usability, accessibility, or technical communication in general: please think about coming to the STC Summit next year in Dallas, 2-5 May 2010. Our call for proposals has just opened at: http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2010/ I'm manager of the Usability and Accessibility track, and I'm looking for proposals that will really stretch us. What fantastic new techniques and ideas are you burning to tell us about? What have you learned over the last year or so that you'd like to share? My aim is to get proposals in two specific areas: - "Getting started" will be for technical communicators who are new to usability or accessibility and who want to know how to... get started! (you were ahead of me). What can you do with little or no budget, maybe no knowledge, but a lot of enthusiasm? You might be an experienced person yourself or you might have just got started yourself: share your experiences and what you wish someone else had told you. - "Advanced" will be aimed at the leaders of our profession. You can expect people coming to your Advanced session to have many years' experience - but they also want to be challenged, to learn new things, and to hear about your successes and lessons learned. Please feel welcome to bounce ideas around, either here or offline to me. Or just go for it and put those proposals in. I'm looking forward to a great conference. Caroline Jarrett [email protected] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
