Dan Woods interviewed at TOC 2011
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Describes a production method called communication by Design centered on an editor-analyst role that interviews experts with a structured, fill-in-the-blanks approach, captures the expert’s “blink,” and hands ordered content to writers, designers and developers. Claims one pipeline produces a 700-page book in 7 months with minimal author time and minimal loss of fidelity. Explains multiple pipelines for book types, plus tooling and scripted interviews that make fidelity reproducible and faster than author-alone workflows.
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