#23866
Review: Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies
If your Web site is not designed for or understood by a global audience, you are excluding an estimated 200 million people, according to John Yunker in Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies.
Staples, Jeff. Usability Interface (2004). Resources>Reviews>Web Design>Localization
#23865
Review: Designing Web Sites for Every Audience
Author Ilise Benun looks at the web from a refreshing perspective, tying marketing and usability together through a common interest in understanding the people who use a web site.
Quesenbery, Whitney. Usability Interface (2004). Resources>Reviews>Web Design
#23832
Review: The Elements of User Experience
By advocating a balanced blend of usability, creativity, and business sensibility, this book is a worthwhile introduction—or re-introduction—to the process of creating successful user experiences.
Boxes and Arrows (2002). Resources>Reviews>User Centered Design
#24043
Review: Free Guide to Color Printing
3M Imaging has come out with a pamphlet that explains these color anomalies and more. And best of all, it's free.
Dahlman, Gayle. Editorial Eye, The (1996). Resources>Reviews>Prepress>Color
#24013
Review: A Handful of New Style and Usage Guides 
Style and usage guides seem to have proliferated, and it's not always easy to discriminate between the valuable and the less so at a glance. Here are three that have come to hand recently and deserve mentioning for different reasons.
Taylor, Priscilla S. Editorial Eye, The (1996). Resources>Reviews>Style Guides
#23875
Review: Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
Anyone who knows Ben Shneiderman and the activities of the Human Computer Interface Lab (HCIL) would expect he would produce a book like Leonardo's Laptop. Twenty years ago as founding director of HCIL, Shneiderman was in the avant-garde of bringing together experts in computer science, engineering, psychology, and education to develop computers and their interfaces to better serve human needs.
Rotz, Allen. Usability Interface (2003). Resources>Reviews>Usability
#23834
Review: Making the Web Work: Designing Effective Web Applications
Those new to the field of user-centered design will find this book most useful; intermediate or advanced practitioners looking for in-depth information specific to web applications may want to look elsewhere.
Lash, Jeff. Boxes and Arrows (2002). Resources>Reviews>Information Design
#23689
Review: Medical Writing in Drug Development: A Practical Guide for Pharmaceutical Research
When I first saw this book, I was surprised that it was so slim. When you think of medical texts, you immediately imagine a volume of 600 pages or more. But Robert Bonk has been able to distill his information into a readable volume. All of the information is right there, easy to access, with no jargon cluttering the way.
Bonk, Robert J. MetroVoice (2003). Resources>Reviews>Scientific Communication>Biomedical
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#23864
Review: Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces
If you want to learn about paper prototyping from a renowned practitioner then I highly recommend Paper Prototyping by Carolyn Snyder. Snyder advocates paper prototyping because it’s easy to design (requires minimal drawing skills), cheap to create (needs only paper and markers), and offers and opportunity for developers and users to evaluate design concepts. If you wonder where the beginning of the design process starts, it begins when great minds meet and brainstorm ideas, and drawing is a natural approach to illustrate them.
Dick, David J. Usability Interface (2004). Resources>Reviews>Workflow
#23874
Review: Reshaping Technical Communication: New Directions and Challenges for the 21st Century
Reshaping Technical Communication: New Directions and Challenges for the 21st Century by Barbara Mirel and Rachel Spilka, eds. offers great insights that might help you gain an understanding of how each world operates, why they operate as they do, and how the two worlds affect and can alter the future of technical communication.
Staples, Jeff. Usability Interface (2003). Resources>Reviews>TC
#24031
Review: Scientific Style Manual Aspires to International Scope
Despite what some U.S. editors may see as flaws or debatable recommendations, sooner or later anyone who edits scientific writing will consult Scientific Style and Format. Some may disagree with its style conventions, but they can be defended as serving the editors' stated goal of achieving a uniform international style for scientific publications.
Ivey, Keith C. Editorial Eye, The (1996). Resources>Reviews>Style Guides>Scientific Communication
#23524
Have you ever worked for a mismanaged company? Are you flexible, yet persistent? Save some startup capital and you, too, can be a successful entrepreneur, say some local business owners who shared their tips and war stories with Four Lakes members at the Oct. 16 meeting.
Janczy, Amy. STC Four Lakes (2002). Resources>Reviews>Presentations>Wisconsin
#23525
Review: A Tech Writer Crosses Over to Marketing and Becomes a "Webinarian" 
Have you ever considered taking on marketing duties at your present job, or even transitioning to a new career as a 'marketeer'? Wistfully, you dream of sipping martinis with your attractive new coworkers under the department’s neon sign, 'Marketing—Two Drink Minimum,' before heading home empty-handed at 5 p.m. Oh, wait a minute—that was a Dilbert cartoon.
Janczy, Amy. STC Four Lakes (2002). Resources>Reviews>Presentations>Technical Writing
#15029
Review: Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy
In these days of dizzying technological change, it is difficult for teachers of composition not to be enthusiastic about the ever expanding arsenal of literacy tools at our disposal. From the myriad possibilities of networked classrooms to the disseminal opportunities of the World Wide Web, these technologies offer us promising venues in which to teach the craft of writing to our students, who seem more than eager to embrace these digital technologies. Yet anyone who remembers the days before word processors realizes that the relationship between writer and text has changed, and not just because of poststructural theorists like Barthes and Foucault. While word processors undoubtedly have eased our production and revision of texts, they have also altered our spatial and tactile relationship to the writing process. And some would argue these changes are not necessarily for the better; perhaps all of us in the computers and writing community know a Luddite colleague who eschews the technological elegance of an Apple PowerBook for the simpler pleasures of an antique fountain pen and hand-bound writing journal. To the technological cognoscenti, such resistance seems at times like quaint nostalgia for a world that is quickly disappearing. But the more I scour the digital landscape to keep abreast of new technologies, the more a gnawing question tugs at my synapses: 'What is being gained and what is being lost as the tools of literacy increase in complexity?'
Honeycutt, Lee. Kairos (1997). Resources>Reviews>Technology>Writing
