Here what we’ve been reading in the last few weeks, covering industry insight and market trends in the field of digital communications.
Our June/July roundup includes topics such as: artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, plain language, user experience, metadata, content and techcomm.
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Plain language
- Research review finds most readability formulas outdated and overrated (Center For Plain Language)
- Creating a plain language summary (Patient Information Forum)
- How to Make Your Content More Readable (CMI)
Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- How not to write an error message (Webflow)
- The Cost of Bad Writing – Why Readability Analysis Saves Money (Visible Thread)
- You’ve Probably Seen An Emergency Alert On Your Phone. But Did You Notice How It Was Worded? (GOOD)
- Running a content crit (Hinrich von Haaren/Medium)
- Six Tips To Telling A Better Business Story (Forbes)
- How to Write Product Descriptions that Convert (WooContent)
- Top 25 Artificial Intelligence Use Cases for Content Management (EContent)
- Does Each Social Media Channel Need Its Own Content Strategy? (SkyWord)
- Content strategy – a better way (Content Company)
- Why Brainstorming Content Doesn’t Work (Veronica Camara/Medium)
User experience (UX) and usability
- How to build a better product with UX writing (Anastasiia Marushevska/Medium)
- UX Writing: Make Your Product Speak Effectively (Anastasiia Marushevska/Product Tribe)
- Cards and Composability in Design Systems (Nathan Curtis/Medium)
- Which Podcasts Should Web Designers And Developers Be Listening To? (Smashing Magazine)
- Where’s The Lamb? Finding Perspective with IA and Content Strategy (Dylan Wilbanks)
Metadata
- Metadata – The Key to Turning Data into Actionable Information (IMGS)
- How Meta Is Your Data? (Synaptica)
Techcomm
- Reconstructing the absent user — the essential requirement for writing good documentation (I’d Rather Be Writing)
- Yes, YOU can write docs as cool as Twilio’s (Docs By Design)
- An argument for complexity rather than simplicity (I’d Rather Be Writing)
- Product content in the brave new world of cognitive technology (TCWorld)
Augmented reality (AR)
- Mixed reality is ready for investors (Venturebeat)
- The Difference Between Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality And Mixed Reality (Forbes)
- What’s the influence of augmented reality on the ecommerce industry? (IT Pro Portal)
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning
- The current state of machine intelligence 3.0 (O’Reilly)
- Visualizing Machine Learning: How Do We Humanize The Intelligence? (MarTechSeries)
- How artificial intelligence is transforming the world (Brookings)
- Who is the modern data scientist? (DigiSciFi)
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