Welcome to our latest set of bookmarks covering industry insight and market trends in the field of digital communications.
Our summer roundup roundup includes topics from the worlds of artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, plain language, user experience, metadata, content and techcomm.
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Plain language
- Can Plain Language save cost? – You better believe it! (Visible Thread)
- List of plain English words and phrases (Wikipedia)
Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- What Separates Good Writing From Bad Writing? (Contently)
- 7 Pillar Page Examples to Get You Started With Your Own (Hubspot)
- Content Writing: How To Access A Deeper Understanding Of Your Subject (EContent)
- If Content Is a Performance, Is It Ever Authentic? (Copyblogger)
- Guide to Performing a Content Audit (Creative Mindscape)
- 8 Tools for Creating Compelling Infographics (Business News Daily)
User experience (UX) and usability
- Map the Stakeholders (Interaction Design Foundation)
- How microinteractions improve your UX design (Inside Design)
- Content and Design Are Inseparable Work Partners (Jared Spool/Medium)
Metadata
- Twitter’s vast metadata haul is a privacy nightmare for users (Wired)
- What is Website Taxonomy and Metadata? ([A])
Techcomm
- Thoughts on docs-as-code after 3 years — it works! (I’d Rather be Writing)
- Designing Documents for People to Use (ScienceDirect)
- If your API is hard to document, be warned (Docs By Design)
Augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR)
- Why AR will soon dominate our reality (Arround/Medium)
- Future of mixed reality: How augmented and virtual worlds will collide (Big Think)
- Facebook and its Experiments with Augmented Reality (Arround/Medium)
- Everything You Need to Know to Build Location-Based AR App (Vakoms)
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning
- An AI system for editing music in videos (MIT News)
- Five expert tips to make Machine Learning development work for you (ITProPortal)
- The Economics Of Artificial Intelligence – How Cheaper Predictions Will Change The World (Forbes)
Workplace strategies
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CJ Walker
