#21658
La Historia de la Visualización
La historia de la visualización es la de la búsqueda de nuevos artefactos para amplificar la capacidad de conocer, es la historia de la escritura y de los mapas, la historia del conocimiento.
Dursteler, Juan Carlos. InfoVis (2002). (Spanish) Design>Graphic Design>History
#24575
A Historical Look at Electronic Literacy: Implications for the Education of Technical Communicators 
This article investigates the ways in which a subset of technical communicators acquired electronic literacy from 1978 to 2000, a period during which personal computers became increasingly ubiquitous in the United States in educational settings, homes, communities,and workplaces. It describes the literacy autobiographies gathered from 55 professionalcommunicators participating on the Techwr-l listserv, focusing on the large-scaletrends that these autobiographies reveal. To supplement the findings from these autobiographies,the authors conducted face-to-face interviews with four case-study participants:a faculty member, a professional communicator, and two students of differentbackgrounds majoring in technical communication. The article concludes with observationsabout the development of technical communication instruction in the twenty-firstcentury.
Selfe, Cynthia L. and Gail E. Hawisher. Journal of Business and Technical Communication (2002). Articles>History>Online
#22729
Historical Patterns in the Scholarship of Technology Transfer
Offers an historian's view of the development of the scholarship about technology transfer over the past half century, interweaving two primary threads. First, it identifies events and circumstances that have influenced and shaped real-world efforts to move technology in its many guises across boundaries— national, geographic, institutional, organizational, social, or otherwise. These historical situations have had a profound impact on the efforts of American policymakers and leaders in business, government, universities, and nongovernmental organizations who deal with technology transfer. These circumstances have produced significant changes of emphasis in the definition of technology transfer at different points in time.
Seely, Bruce E. Johns Hopkins University (2003). Articles>TC>History>Technology
#21721
A History of Copyright in the United States
Since the Statute of Anne almost three hundred years ago, U.S. law has been revised to broaden the scope of copyright, to change the term of copyright protection, and to address new technologies.
Association of Research Libraries (2003). Articles>Intellectual Property>Copyright>History
#22564
History of Modern Technical Writing
Technical writing has been around since the first technical writer, Cro-Magnon man, was drawing on cave walls. However, most experts would agree that the golden age of technical writing started with the invention of the computer. Here are some of the major milestones in technical writing history over the past 60 years.
ProEdit (1996). Articles>Writing>Technical Writing>History
#29392
An History of Outlining (and STOP)
The STOP teams brilliant practical approach to outlining also looks forward to a number of activities that have become more convenient thanks to electronic outlining software--collaborative work on organization, visual display of a verbal structure, an iterative process of research, outlining, and drafting focused on the same document, and the large organizations need for standard templates defining the structure of generic modules. In these ways, the STOP team are forerunners for practices that even today are avant garde.
Price, Jonathan R. DITA Users (1999). Articles>Information Design>Methods>History
#25991
A History of Plain Language in the United States Government
Awareness of the need for clear language isn't new in the US government.
Locke, Joanne N. PlainLanguage.gov (2004). Articles>History>Writing>Minimalism
#22450
History of Technical and Scientific Communication 
History is a crucial dimension of any legitimate academic field because it identifies it as having lasting interest and signficance and, like a living organism, as a growing, evolving, coherent entity that progresses over time and advances to more sophisticated forms. History, after all, is scholarship and vice versa.
Dombrowski, Paul M. CPTSC Proceedings (2003). Articles>TC>History
#25554
Weblogs are often-updated sites that point to articles elsewhere on the web, often with comments, and to on-site articles.
Winer, Dave. Weblogs.com (2003). Articles>Web Design>History>Blogging
#13278
How Did the Special Needs Committee Get Started? 
A member of STC’s Special Needs Committee describes the history and goals of the Committee.
Hanigan, Mark. STC Proceedings (2000). Presentations>TC>History
#20499
The 80s in graphic design were dominated by questions about the layout, by life style magazines, with Neville Brody’s Face seen as the big event. The 90s were dominated by questions about typography, readability, layering, with David Carson emerging as the dominant figure. With prominent figures like Peter Saville recently talking about the crisis of the unnecessary and lamenting about the fact that our contemporary culture is monthly, there might now finally be room for content, for questions about what we do and for whom we are doing it.
Sagmeister, Stefan. Typoteque.com (2002). Design>Typography>History
#18991
I began as a traditional technical writer and editor in January 1961. Then a gradual evolution changed my worklife: I became a multiple-threat hybrid. My experience zig-zagged from writing proposals to professional acting to building technical resentations to educating myself in marketing communications and marketing to counseling others in strategically thinking how to better market their ideas. Today, I am the hybrid of the future: technical writer and editor/marcom specialist/strategic thinker/marketing counselor.
Gottlieb, Larry. STC Proceedings (2002). Careers>TC>History
#21432
In the late 1970s, a great flood of creative talent, drawn from the ranks of people who had never before touched a computer, took to the keyboards of the early microcomputers and started a revolution. The early programming environments and languages were simple, natural, and accessible. Within five years, that group had been disenfranchised by the advent of 'serious' computing environments, such as Pascal and C, and software settled back down to being the business of professionals. With the advent of the web, another even greater flood of talent was unleashed, but this time the end came sooner. Within two years, the originally simple HTML environment had become clouded with hacks on top of hacks, as the C++ boys moved in and took over. The new talent could only continue to produce pretty pictures, while the traditional priesthood again took up the real work of programming. The web has stagnated ever since.
Tognazzini, Bruce. Nielsen Norman Group (2000). Design>Web Design>History
#31532
How to Communicate with Employees During War
On 19 March a war with global implications began between a U.S.-led coalition and Iraq. Although some organizations will be affected by this war more than others, the articles below will help any communicator address certain immediate internal and external organizational war-related communication issues.
Davis, Alison. Communication World Bulletin (2003). Articles>Business Communication>Workplace>History
#31984
HTML Museum: Font and Page Size
I want to spend some time on a series of articles on web design usability practices. I call this series, the HTML Museum. I hope to update it with articles that address past web design practices and why they are no longer in use.The first exhibit deals with font, text and page size.
Lanier, Clinton R. sense and usability (2008). Articles>Web Design>Typography>History
#21646
Speculates about what the future will hold for technical communicators.
Martin, Maurice. Intercom (2004). Articles>TC>History
#21331
Information Architecture: From Craft to Profession
Teaching information architecture as a profession in the process of being born, author and educator, Earl Morrogh, in his new book, 'Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession' places information architecture in an historical context analogous to the history of architecture.
Morrogh, Earl. Boxes and Arrows (2002). Articles>Information Design>History
#19168
An Information Design Timeline
a detailed history of information design.
STC Information Design SIG. Resources>Information Design>History
#18722
Interaction Design History in a Teeny Little Nutshell
Before computers, there wasn’t 'interaction design.' But most of the qualities we seek have been valued through the ages.
Rettig, Marc. MarcRettig.com (2003). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design>History
#15151
January 15, 2002, through April 15, 2002
This report covers specifications, standards, and amendments received from January 15, 2002, through April15, 2002.
Bach, Claudia. Intercom (2002). Articles>History>TC
#31200
Joseph D. Chapline: Technical Communication's Mozart
Presents a biography of Joseph D. Chapline, noting his role in the founding of IRE-PGEWS.
Malone, Edward A. IEEE PCS (2008). Articles>History
#15154
July 1, 2000, through August 31, 2,000
This report covers specifications, standards, and amendments received from July 1, 2000, through August 31, 2000.
Bach, Claudia. Intercom (2000). Articles>History>TC
#15155
July 15, 2001 through October 15, 2001
This report covers specifications, standards, and amendments received from July 15, 2001, through October 15, 2001.
Bach, Claudia. Intercom (2002). Articles>History>TC
#21240
Keeping Our Sanity: Managing Change in an Ever-Changing World
Change is an integral part of our lives. Businesses change, careers change, lives change. But what is the nature of change? And how can we effectively navigate change? Change is a dynamic process that in many ways is similar to the grief process. Strategies for navigating through change include humor, establishing and maintaining a vision, communication, other interests, adjustment time, and realizing that you have choices and options.
Eschen, Mary L. STC Proceedings (1995). Careers>TC>History
#29288
The original tab signaled an information storage revolution and helped enable everything from management consulting to electronic data processing.
Tenner, Ed. Technology Review (2005). Articles>User Interface>Information Design>History
