Carolyn Stransky Vohr
where else to find them
website:https://workwithcarolyn.com
github:carolstran
bluesky:carolstran.bsky.social
mastodon:@carolstran@mastodon.online
speakerdeck:carolstran
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- React Finland2 editions2019–2020
- RuhrJS2 editions2018–2019
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on a stage with
- Anton Kolesnykonce
- Brooke Stauneronce
- Deepak Valagamonce
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who talks about the same things
- Ryan Macklin8 talks
- Alexandra White7 talks
- Chris Ward18 talks
- Lana Brindley10 talks
- Mason Egger13 talks
- Mike Jang8 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Monday Lightning Talks | Write the Docs Berlin 2026 | 2026-09-06 |
A sprint of six five-minute pieces: a talk that treats storytelling as a protocol and argues oral tales act like lossy compression for knowledge; a warehouse… | ||
| Tuesday Lightning Talks | Write the Docs Berlin 2026 | 2026-09-06 |
Seven five‑minute pieces cover practical, weird and tactical moves: a push to write for users who are having a really bad day (EHR medics, immediate errors… | ||
| Humanizing Your Documentation | BeJS Conf 2023 | 2023-05-11 |
Advocates switching from reference-first to goal-centered docs that start with user goals and parallel feature development, with teams like mnify beginning to… | ||
| Humanizing Your Documentation | JSHeroes 2022 | 2022-06-09 |
Argues for documenting from goals not UI, shows the use-case-driven docs pattern with a Slack crawl and a drill example, gives concrete linters and tools… | ||
| Humanizing Your Documentation | React Finland 2020 | 2020-05-28 |
Advocates switching from reference-first docs to use-case driven documentation that ties features to user goals and lets docs be written alongside code… | ||
| Panel discussion about documentation | React Finland 2020 | 2020-05-28 |
Panelists debate concrete tradeoffs not platitudes: a misleading design system in docs wastes real developer hours and is worse than none, Webpack’s docs… | ||
| A11y-Friendly Documentation | Open Source 101 at Home 2020 | 2020-05-12 |
Documentation is often left out of accessibility work yet concrete fixes exist and are demonstrated here: WHO says over one billion people need assistive… | ||
| Life is hard and so is learning GraphQL | localhost conference 2019 | 2019-10-12 |
GraphQL is a spec with many implementations, not a single “vanilla” product, and documentation and tooling are scattered so newcomers hit avoidable blockers… | ||
| "Intuitive" Tooling | RuhrJS 2019 | 2019-10-05 |
A clear claim: truly intuitive tooling rarely exists; familiarity masquerades as simplicity. Specific pain points include Typescript is a whole new language… | ||
| Humanising Your Documentation | beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2019 | 2019-05-13 |
Argues that documentation must show concrete outcomes not features, advocating use-case-driven documentation with examples like “how to drill a hole” instead… | ||
| Intuitive Tooling | React Finland 2019 | 2019-04-24 |
TypeScript reads like a new language with an empty-array default of type never and baffling import forms, Redux piles jargon plus async middleware like thunks… | ||
| The Most Important UI,You | Half Stack 2018 | 2018-11-16 |
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| Life is hard and so is learning GraphQL | GraphQL Finland 2018 | 2018-10-18 |
Learning a new technology can be daunting. For many of us, the way we try to make sense of a new technology is through their documentation and the examples we… | ||
| Humanizing Your Documentation | RuhrJS 2018 | 2018-10-13 |
Argues for use-case driven documentation with concrete examples (a drill, Slack pages) and shows how restructuring docs around user goals prevents confusion… | ||
| Humanizing your documentation | Frontend Conference Zurich 2018 | 2018-08-30 |
It’s no secret that most people don’t read technical documentation for pleasure. Users often come to your docs when they are frustrated with your software… | ||
| Humanizing Your Documentation | <React.NotAConf /> 2018 | 2018-04-28 |
Argues documentation must be use-case driven, not dry reference, with docs started alongside feature design so users learn goals not controls. Cites Slack… | ||
| Humanizing Your Documentation | JSConf Iceland 2018 | 2018-03-01 |
Argues for use-case driven documentation that starts from user goals not APIs and recommends designing docs alongside features so content maps to real tasks… | ||
| Humanizing Your Documentation | React Day Berlin 2017 | 2017-12-02 |
Argues that documentation should start from user goals rather than implementation and can be designed alongside features, with concrete practices: write… | ||
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