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The importance of documentation: The real reason products needs it
The prominence of documentation is inversely proportional to the usability of the product.
Vinay Payyapilly
May 6, 20242 min read
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Beyond Screenshots: Why They Fall Short in Product Guides
Screenshots in software product documentation have always been a contentious issue – you either like them or you hate them.
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 29, 20243 min read
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From Passion to Profession: The Journey from Aspiring to Professional WriterÂ
Published authors, movie actors, sportspersons are professionals and perform on cue. So do accountants, HR executives, product managers, etc
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 15, 20243 min read
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The evolutionary journey of product documentation
Action is a default human behavior. When faced with a problem, our instinct is to get going on the solution.
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 11, 20242 min read
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Writing based KPIs for technical writers
I have written earlier about Measuring Effectiveness Through GAI-Driven Support Outcomes as a way to measure the performance of technical...
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 19, 20242 min read
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Revolutionizing Technical Writing: Measuring Effectiveness Through GAI-Driven Support Outcomes
Whenever I ask the question, how do you measure the performance of your writers, to any technical writing leader, the answers I receive...
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 12, 20242 min read
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Technical writing in a ChatGPT world
Such paradigm-shifting technologies grow the industry or force people upstream.
Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 28, 20232 min read
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Common mistakes documentation teams make
Hard as it may be to comprehend, a technical writer’s job isn’t to create content. It is to enable the user to complete a task through instr
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 17, 20236 min read
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When less is more
Give somebody a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Give a technical writer a problem and they’ll more often than not, write an article
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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Non-XML to XML: A Help site’s coming-of-age story
It was somewhere in 2019 that we decided that it was time to grow up and use a real documentation tool. Up till that point, we were using...
Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 4, 20234 min read
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Better documentation: Articles as band-aid
Have you ever had to scroll through a long table that tries to explain the columns in a report? There is a very easy way to solve that...
Vinay Payyapilly
May 9, 20212 min read
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Making documentation a key activity
A common complaint when two or more technical writers get together is how documentation is not given the importance it deserves by the...
Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 19, 20212 min read
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