Re: Current industry trends for technical writers

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Pretty much anything where consumer and end-user interfaces have been 
becoming more automated - the very areas where jobs writing user docs 
have been evaporating. Because all the things that end users used to 
have to figure out from the manuals are now going on "under the hood," 
and need to be documented.

WRT to the "cloud model," I've been doing some work for a start-up in 
this area, and the docs are really not significantly different from 
writing any other client/server documentation. There's extra lines and 
arrows on the flow charts to show that the servers are "floating" on 
soft, puffy clouds somewhere away from the clients, but otherwise, they 
might just as well be 80s-era mainframe/client systems.

Gene Kim-Eng



On 6/15/2016 7:33 AM, Rich D wrote