Online seminar – Formulating and visualizing technical documentation

In this seminar, you will learn the basics and different options for the textual and visual design of technical documentation and instructions, and how to evaluate them in terms of their contribution to comprehensibility, clarity, and memorability. This two-day seminar is the classic introduction to technical documentation and is also part of the more comprehensive Technical Documentation Basics package.

Your benefit

  • You will learn to formulate your messages in a clear, target-oriented, and purposeful manner.
  • They examine the effects and interplay of text and images as media.
  • You will learn proven rules for text formulation and apply them.
  •  You will learn how to convey information in a way that is tailored to your target audience using photos, graphics, screenshots, and other types of images.
  • You can analyze and optimize your own images and learn how to avoid mistakes in image design.
  • You are familiar with the key cost factors that influence the development effort.
  • They create safety instructions that comply with both EU and US guidelines.
  • Participation in this continuing education event can also be credited toward tekom recertification.

Target group

  • Technical editors and authors of technical manuals and descriptions.
  • Developers and designers who create technical documentation "on the side."
  • Career changers or college graduates who have recently started or will soon be creating technical documentation.
  • Technical writers who want to refresh their knowledge.

Contents Day 1

  • Write in a user-friendly way
  • Writing clearly – the words
  • Writing clearly – sentences
  • Writing clearly – the texts
  • Checking, measuring, and assessing comprehensibility
  • Formulate safety and warning notices

Contents Day 2

  • Selecting the right image type for the information goal
  • Optimize image content
  • Keep an eye on the cost of creation.
  • Create safety and warning notices for the EU and USA

Note

Each seminar day can also be booked individually.

Methods and evidence

  • Participants receive detailed seminar documentation.
  • Participants will receive a certificate of participation.

  • Place: Online

  • Duration: 2 days (8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)

  • Costs: 980 EUR (plus VAT)

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Costs: 980 EUR (plus VAT)
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