Podcasts for the Write the Docs community. Mostly focused on tech comm, tech writing, UX, IA, and more.
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UX-radio, Inc. is designed to inspire, educate, share resources and to expand the conversation about Information Architecture (IA) User Experience (UX) and Design. This show was founded by Lara Fedoroff who leads the Product Strategy team at Philosophie, has designed for respectable brands, is a speaker and occasional adjunct instructor. Our Co-Host is the illustrious, Chris Chandler. Chris is a Partner and Global Product Strategist at Philosophie, an instructor, speaker and is the Co-founde ...
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WTD Episode 35: Docs for Developers book, with Jared Bhatti and Zachary Sarah Corleissen
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In this podcast, we discuss the newly released book Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing with Jared Bhatti, staff technical writer at Google, and Zachary Sarah Corleissen, staff technical writer at Stripe (two of the co-authors). This book on writing documentation focuses on the end-to-end writing process (from audien…
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UX in the Time of Covid with Anita Cheng
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, we talk with Anita Cheng about designing better government services during Covid-19.…
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WTD Episode 34: Adding personality to documentation, with Fabrizio Ferri
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In this podcast, Fabrizio Ferri joins us for a discussion about adding both personal identity and personality to documentation. Why are the docs we write so often anonymous, and does that anonymity work against progress in our careers? Are tech writers, who are typically introverts, averse to publicity, or does our industry not allow for it? And if…
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Is Your Digital Voice Trustworthy? with Margot Bloomstein
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, we dive in deep to understand how trust is impacted by our design decisions.…
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Guiding Principles for Product Leadership with Hà Phan
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, we talk with Hà Phan about how she creates Guiding Principles for Product Leadership.…
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Where did IA go? with Donna Spencer
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In this episode, we talk to Donna Spencer to answer the question, "Where did IA (Information Architecture) go?" We talk about defining IA, is IA still relevant, the importance of understanding and representing the abstraction layer, and how to present design.Par Lara Fedoroff
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Pandemic Design with Stephanie Mencarelli
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, we talk with Stephanie Mencarelli, Senior Design Director at Walmart Labs, about her experience leading teams and designin…
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WTD Episode 33: Simplified user interfaces, with Anton Bollen
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One of the most challenging and frustrating things about being a tech writer is managing screenshots in your product documentation. How many times have you needed to take complex screenshots of your product and meticulously marked them up with callouts only to be told that a field has changed and you need to do everything again? It’s so frustrating…
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Listening Deeply to People with Indi Young
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, Indi Young talks about the problem space [of design] where the focus is on people, not users. Her way of approaching the p…
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WTD Episode 32: Self-publishing and AsciiDoc, with Mehmed Pasic
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Many tech writers are familiar with using AsciiDoc for documentation, but did you know that you can also create fiction and non-fiction books with AsciiDoc, publishing to popular digital formats such as EPUB or PDF, along with HTML? In this episode of the Write the Docs podcast, we chat with Mehmed Pasic from Manning Publications about self-publish…
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Story Driven Leadership with Donna Lichaw
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, we talk with Donna Lichaw about Story-Driven Leadership.Par Lara Fedoroff
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WTD Episode 31: Strategies for site search, with Peter Levan
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So many documentation websites rely on search as part of their information architecture. But what do you actually need to consider if you want to make your site search return answers for users in relevant, efficient ways? Join Peter Levan from Funnelback with regular guests Chris, Jared, and Tom for a talk all about making search work well on your …
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WTD Episode 30: Documentation templates, with Juan Lara
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In this episode, Juan Lara from Google joins us for a lively discussion about documentation templates. Documentation templates refer to established patterns we follow for common documentation types, such as quickstarts, how-to guides, concepts, tutorials, reference, troubleshooting, release notes, FAQs, or other information types that have similar,…
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Every Day is a Civics Lesson with Dana Chisnell on UX-radio
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, we talk to Dana about her many contributions to civic design.Par Lara Fedoroff
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WTD Episode 29: Salary Survey results and WFH tips, with Eric Holscher
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In this episode, we chat with Eric Holscher, co-founder of both Read the Docs and Write the Docs, about the recent Salary Survey that the WTD group conducted. This survey was launched in Fall 2019, and the results published were recently published. The salary survey covers details such as types of employment, job titles, roles, length of time in ro…
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WTD Episode 28: UX writing - Starting and Scaling at your Company, Berlin WTD meetup
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Episode 28 is a recording of a Berlin WTD meetup focused on UX writing processes, live streamed on March 9, 2020 at the Humanitec in Berlin. The meetup featured two speakers. Natasha Sarana, UX Writer at FlixMobility, talks about her company's attempts to include UX Writing in their research routine. She shares the main challenges they faced so far…
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WTD Episode 27: Starting a doc group/process when you're the first
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In episode 27 of the Write the Docs podcast, we're joined by Cynthia Ng and Amy Qualls from GitLab to talk about strategies for starting up docs in organizations where there aren't any other tech writers and where you're first on scene setting up shop. What are your first steps as a documentarian when there isn't anyone else, when processes, contac…
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The Value of Asking Questions with Erika Hall on UX-Radio
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, Erika talks about the nuances of valuable research. Erika Hall is the co-founder and Director of Strategy at Mule. She is …
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WTD Episode 26: Tech Writing and Reddit, with Alan Bowman
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In episode 26, we talk with Alan Bowman about the technical writing forum on Reddit as well as the WTD Slack channel, comparing and contrasting the two spaces. Topics covered include pros and cons of anonymity on the internet, transparency around sensitive or taboo topics (e.g., salary, masters programs, feelings of overwhelm), age/experience demog…
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WTD Episode 25: Researching how developers use API docs, with Andrew Head
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In episode 25, we talk with Andrew Head, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, about his research on how developers use API documentation. Specifically, we focused on a recent article he co-authored titled When Not to Comment: Questions and Tradeoffs with API Documentation for C++ Projects. During the podcast, we chat about the follow…
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Becoming an Industry-ready UX Designer with Jessica Ivins
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UX-radio is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources with the audience. Jessica Ivins talks about becoming an industry-ready UX Designer at Center Centre.…
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WTD Episode 24: Conference chatter and the Australian scene, with Swapnil Ogale
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In this episode, we're joined by the Write the Docs Australia initiator Swapnil Ogale. We talk about conference wind-downs and ramp-ups, highlights from the just-finished WTD Prague conference, speakers announced for upcoming Write the Docs Australia conference, the Good Docs Project, the tech writing scene in Australia, and more.…
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The UX of the US with Stacy Surla
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. Stacy's background in government settings is fascinating. From a government perspective, she shares how new projects get approved, what agi…
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WTD Episode 23: How to write inclusive tech documentation, by Lucie Le Naour
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In this episode, rather than the usual roundtable discussion, we provide a recording of a WTD Berlin presentation by Lucie Le Naour on how to write inclusive tech documentation. Inclusive documentation takes into account all users, regardless of their gender, culture, or abilities. It uses language that treats different types of people fairly and e…
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WTD Episode 22: Managing multiple doc projects across Git repositories, with Giles Gaskell
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In episode 22, Giles Gaskell from Squiz in Australia joins us to talk about managing multiple doc projects across Git repositories through Antora. Giles explains how to establish processes such that updating documentation becomes part of the definition of done, how to manage build process across multiple Gitlab repositories, strategies for distribu…
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Defining Growth Design with Lex Roman
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, Lex Roman breaks down Growth Design.Par Lara Fedoroff
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How Search Really Works with Dr Marcia Bates
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UX-radio.com is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience, and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with industry experts with the purpose to educate, inspire and share resources. In this episode, Dr. Marcia Bates talks about her recommendation to improve search with recognition over recall.…
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WTD Episode 21: On career growth, leadership, and mentoring in tech writing, with Becky Todd
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In episode 21, Becky Todd from Atlassian joins us to talk about career growth, leadership, and mentoring. How do you move up to the next level at your company? Does upleveling require a management track, or there other ways to increase your leadership and influence? We also chat about mistakes we've made, what we've learned, ways to increase our in…
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WTD Episode 20: Minimum requirements for good tech docs, with Matt Reiner
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In episode 20, Matt Reiner from K15t joins us to talk about minimum standards for documentation - what techniques or standards can you put in place to help engineers and other contributors meet the minimum requirement for good tech docs? What essential sections, headings, or topics should you include in templates? And how do you help non-native spe…
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Convincing Stakeholders why UX Research Matters with Krispian Emert
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UX-radio is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience and Design. Inspiring conversations with industry experts. Co-hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler talk with featured guest, Krispian Emert about tactics to effectively justify the need for UX Research with organizational stakeholders. Learn how to leverage yourself more powerf…
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WTD Episode 19: Static site generators, with Jessica Parsons
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Jessica Parsons, a documentation engineer from Netlify, joins us for Episode 19 of the WTD Podcast. Jess recently conducted a Static Site Generator workshop at the Australian Write the Docs conference at Melbourne. It was really excellent, and we've been meaning to get Jess on the show for a while to talk shop. In this episode, Jess illuminates the…
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The Design Maturity Model with JJ Kercher
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UX-radio is a podcast about Information Architecture, User Experience and Design. Hosts Lara Fedoroff and Chris Chandler share inspiring conversations with industry experts. JJ Kercher has 20 years of experience as a designer and product strategist. She is currently the Head of Customer Experience for Real Estate at AppFolio, where she leads a team…
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WTD Episode 18: Recap and thoughts on Write the Docs Australia 2018
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In episode 18 of the Write the Docs podcast, we discuss the recent Write the Docs Australia 2018 conference held in Melbourne. Jared was an emcee at the event and shares his inside perspective about what made the event so successful. We dive deep into the unconference format, how to instill the Write the Docs brand into the conference experience, h…
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