Muhammad Kiberu > Muhammad's Quotes

“Brevity is pivotal to clarity.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“Technical writing is a continuous process of learning, carefully gathering, sifting, organizing, and assessing, all while trying to craft something that makes sense for a user.”
― Krista Van Laan, The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

“Familiarity trumps functionality.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“Users notice good design only when it is missing.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“As a technical communicator, I am an enabler of
information.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“Contextualization lies in bringing out the right messages from the abundant content; in sandwiching the subject between the background of information and the foreground of its utility.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“The success of the documentation efforts lies in the users being able to correctly locate and use the resolutions to their issues on time and retain that knowledge for later use.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“We are driven by our necessities, which are driven by our situations, which are driven by our decisions, which surprisingly are driven by our necessities. So, what do we make of it? It all begins and ends with understanding the users’ needs.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“The design’s intuitiveness is factorized based on the stored procedures: the more intuitive the design is, the more the users can remember and recall.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“We are trained to teach users but are not trained to help them learn.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“How much ever we may underpin cognitive learning theories in technical communication and document design, the users invariably learn more when they are unknowingly
involved in the learning process: users learn more when they aren’t learning. Conclusively, we must focus on experimentation and empowerment, and not on learning alone.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“Make difference with the uniformity; make uniformity the difference.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“In fiction, the language and the senses it evokes are important, whereas in technical writing, the content, and the information it conveys, are important.”
― Krista Van Laan, The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

“The fact is that as writers we need to make our
mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make their mark. It is that simple; it is that difficult.”
― Suyog Ketkar, The Write Stride

“Remember, your output is not a work of art; it’s a work product designed to help the customer – whoever the customer is.”
― Krista Van Laan, The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle