Ryan Macklin
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- Write the Docs Portland4 editions2020–2023
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- Carolyn Stransky Vohr20 talks
- Heidi Waterhouse49 talks
- Chris Ward18 talks
- Cecy Correa8 talks
- Mike Jang8 talks
- Rich Marcucella2 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| "Putting the instructions on the box" | Write the Docs Atlantic 2023 | 2023-09-10 |
A concrete claim: print usable steps where people already look, not just in a buried manual. Example: a wheelbarrow with instructions on the box lid works as a… | ||
| People are never logical | Write the Docs Portland 2023 | 2023-05-07 |
Claim: humans do not split cleanly into “logical” versus “emotional”; both arise from the same neurochemical processes. Evidence cites amygdala and adrenaline… | ||
| Can I interest you in Empathy Advocacy? | Write the Docs Portland 2022 | 2022-05-22 |
Claims a practical new discipline called empathy advocacy that extends cognitive accessibility by translating neurobiology into a usable framework for writers… | ||
| So you need to give bad news to users… | Write the Docs Prague 2021 | 2021-10-03 |
Claims five concrete tactics for writing bad news: understand dysregulated brains and a brain‑dollars cost model, surface a single clear action (subject line… | ||
| 5 things being a game designer taught me about tech writing | Write the Docs Portland 2021 | 2021-04-25 |
Five concrete takeaways: treat each help page as a marketing entry that must sell the product by teaching and inspiring; use layout tools like inset boxes… | ||
| Emotional personas: another way to think about your users | Write the Docs Portland 2020 | 2020-08-09 |
A five‑minute slide deck claims a practical taxonomy: five emotional personas named after animals that map user emotion to content needs, presented as anxious… | ||
| Lightning Talks Part 2 | Write the Docs 2017 | 2017-05-14 |
Crowdsourced “top 10” myths get tested with concrete claims and counterexamples, a docs‑as‑code push and the assertion that nobody reads documentation is… | ||
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