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Subject:RE: Current industry trends for technical writers From:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:33:40 +0000
... unless some other model replaces the cloud model before then. :-)
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From: Robert Lauriston
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:43 PM
To: TECHWR-L Writing
Subject: Re: Current industry trends for technical writers
I think virtually all software will move to the cloud model within the next ten years, so that's maybe less of an area than a trend.
Trends in UI / UX probably mean less customer-facing end-user documentation and more internal development and operations docs.
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