Catch up with the world of digital communications with these great reads, infographics and videos. Our latest roundup covers industry insight and market trends. We read and repost our bookmarks so you can quickly get up to date with what’s happening in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, plain language, user experience, metadata, content and techcomm.
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Plain language
- Tell It To Me Straight: Plain Language in UX (Adobe)
- Plain-Language Summaries: A Vital Ingredient In Knowledge Translation (Michael Smith Foundation)
- What we have here is a failure to communicate (Precision Content)
Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- 2019’s Marketing Forecast with Ogilvy (Pattern 89)
- Konmari and content strategy (Danielle Lynette/LinkedIn)
- Building Content Plans Around User Intent (MarketMuse)
- The Future of Content Strategy (Hubspot)
- The Psychology of Rating Systems (Hacker Noon)
- How to Work Topic Clusters Into Your Content Strategy (MarketMuse)
- Is Content King or Is Data King? (Oracle)
- How to Make Your Bland Content Strategy Delicious (CMI)
- The Dangers of Overpersonalization (Nielsen Norman Group)
- Two Things Every Content Strategy Needs (Brain Traffic)
- 9 interview tips for high quality content (AgencyAB)
User experience (UX) and usability
- The Ninja Skill for UX Designers (Molly Inglish/Medium)
- The State of UX in 2019 (UX Trends)
- A year of building UX at Virgin Atlantic (Martyn Reding/Medium)
- UX – five trends you need to know right now (Bloc)
- User Interviews: How, When, and Why to Conduct Them (Nielsen Norman Group)
- Why is UX copywriting so important in product design (Inapptics)
- 18 Things I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out in UX Design (Guy Ligertwood/Medium)
- Why enterprise UX matters (UX Planet)
Metadata
- Fast and Free: How to Build Your Own AI Taxonomy (PicturePark)
Techcomm
- Employment and salary outlook for technical writers based on the 2017-2018 STC Salary Database (I’d Rather Be Writing)
- Preferring technical acuity over specialized knowledge (I’d Rather Be Writing)
- Seven Ways to Improve the Technical Writing Review Process (Robert Desprez)
- Online Technical Writing: Indexing (Tu Chemnitz)
- Top 5 Text Metrics to Consider for User Documentation (ClickHelp)
- New You for New Technical Writing Year (Kesi Parker/Medium)
- Search Inside Documentation (ClickHelp)
Augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR)
- Creative and Unusual E-Commerce Experiences (Awwwards)
- Difference between Augmented Reality, Virtual reality and Mixed Reality (Technotification)
- Augmented reality could help treat cancer (Verdict Medical Devices)
- Microsoft Looks To Boost HoloLens Use, Bolster Its Salesforce Challenger With New Mixed Reality Apps (Forbes)
- How ESA Astronauts Use AR and VR to Train for Space (Engineering.com)
- Augmented Reality Top 8 of 2018 (VR Scout)
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning
- Artificial Intelligence and the Role of Workers (Samsung)
- Interview with a Chatbot Conversation Designer (Firehead)
- 5 Important Artificial Intelligence Predictions (For 2019) Everyone Should Read (Forbes)
- How Bloomberg uses machine learning to create a competitive advantage (Diginomica)
- The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2019 (Farvest)
- Could techcomm help bridge the accountability gap in AI? (Firehead)
- Review: Artificial Intelligence in 2018 (Vladimir Fedak/Medium)
Careers and recruitment
- How to quit like a pro (Firehead via Payscale)
- 10 Things You Should Do While You’re Looking For Work (Inc)
- A 10-step guide to effective job hunting (Guardian)
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