text, usually about how to use a program.

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UX style guide techniques

I've recently started a major redesign for a large web-based financial tool. To aid future development, I'm planning on generating a UX style guide that outlines best practices for things like forms, ...
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Industry standard for documenting IxD / UI Design Patterns?

What's the industry-standard way to document a design pattern? I have seen websites like ui-patterns.com and patternry.com that host and share design patterns, but when creating an reusing a design ...
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Full lifecycle, version controlled, UX documentation - Is this possible?

I'm currently trying to implement a usable UX documentation system , streamlining the flow of work between User Researchers/Usability specialists, Information Architects and Visual Designers. Just to ...
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Interactive 'page turn' documents - the case against using these?

What do people feel about interactive page turn documents? Here's an example (I'm not focusing on this report specifically - just happened to be an example I knew off the top of my head). Do these ...
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Does using bold font for keywords and key points increase readability of user manuals?

I find myself writing quite a lot of articles, user manual-like documents, as well as posting hundreds of questions on stackexchange sites. Over time, I developed a certain style of writing, which ...