Friday, December 03, 2004

Information Mapping Training in India

TecDoc Limited is the authorised training provider for Information Mapping in India. I had attended their program two years back and found it very useful.

Implementing information mapping can be quite a challenge and requires intensive training for writers. A formal training on information mapping also helps writers to quickly get adjusted to structured writing environments.

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Gold Mine for Technical Writers

The session materials of past STC International Conferences are a veritable gold mine of knowledge for technical writers.

Checkout the STC International Conference Session Materials website at http://www.stc.org/conference_sessionmaterials.asp.

The Polar Bear Book (Online)

Checkout the online version of the IA Bible: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville at http://books.deathace.net/wdesign/infoarch/index.htm.




Interesting Web Site and UI Design Tools

The Group for User Interface Research at the University of California at Berkely offers some interesting web site and UI design tools.
Checkout their projects website for more information.

India's Contribution to Information Architecture

Read Ranganathan for IAs.

Source: Boxes and Arrows,
the definitive source for the complex task of bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape.

Featuring India's Usability Pioneers - Pradeep Henry

Meet Pradeep Henry, the founder/head of India's first usability lab at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, India.
To know more about Pradeep, his publications and his book User-Centered Information Design for Improved Software Usability, see www.tech-bridge.com.

Welcome to Perspectives on Technical Writing from India Blog

Hi,

Welcome to the Perspectives on Technical Writing from India Blog. This blog will track and discuss technical writing and related areas like usability, information architecture, content management, and authoring tools.

Please feel free to contribute to this blog.

Thanks
Selvakumar