Technical Writing Blog

UX as a term is used more often when talking about user interfaces, but it can be applied to any object a human can interact with. Being an important part of the user journey, technical documentation deserves a special mention in terms of UX. Today, we will give you several tips to make your user…

If you are concerned about your user manuals looking bad, this article will give you certain focus points improving which can turn the situation around. How far you want to take it depends on your subjective opinion regarding this matter. Some people believe that when technical documents look neat, and there are no design elements…

The role of a UX writer emerged not so long ago on the job market, but it has been growing ever since. Major companies like Google are heavily focused on everything UX-related and UX writing as well. UX writing looks like some derivative from technical writing, however, it pursues a different goal. While an average…

Remember, when you studied in college you had to deal with writing different papers? And, if they were not hand written there were all those requirements about the font size, the quotes, the page breaks…’Yuck! But my paper is very much readable the way it is. Do I really have to do this? What a…

The numbers paint an accurate picture: visual content rules the digital world. Articles that feature relevant images get about 94% more views than content without graphics. Moreover, the human brain is wired to respond better to visual stimuli than text. In fact, we process images 60,000 times faster than the written word. That’s undoubtedly huge….

Let’s be honest. Speed is everything these days. If a website (or, an online documentation portal takes just one second too long to load, it can negatively affect your business. And, with the mobile Internet on the rise, online users just aren’t willing to wait for anything. In fact, 47% of people expect a page…

Readability is an obligatory feature for software documentation design. For any user documentation design, really. As you know, it is generally achieved by the font size, shape of letters, and contrast between text and the background. It can be either: dark on light, or light on dark. Both work. But, still, when the time comes…

The amount of helpful design resources keeps growing. But, still, the quality ones are hard to find without guidance. And, the guidance we offer! In case you are new to design and even creating a color scheme sounds impossible to you, check out our guest blog post, and you will learn that creating a color…

Monospaced fonts or non-proportional fonts are the ones where any symbol has the same width which is often achieved by adding more empty space before and after a letter or a character. Monospaced fonts always remind us of programming, code, hackers and such. It is no coincidence these fonts are used in application development IDEs….

Music is forever – or so they say. But, there’s definitely some truth in this statement. While some forms of art are lost and forgotten, music is something that has been accompanying people for thousands of years without losing its momentum. Tutorial videos can sound awkward without a background track, same goes for promo videos,…