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That reminds me of something... · 07/02/2007 02:51 AM

Royksopp — “Remind Me” :: Infographics made cool

I love this video from Royksopp. I was going through some notes today which reminded me to share this video. I first saw it during a presentation — “Creating and Evaluating Usable Graphics” by Patrick Hofmann — at the Society of Technical Communication conference in Minneapolis this past May. Hofmann gave a great presentation with some incisive hints, like creating visual stylesheets, improving screen shots by cropping and annotating, and testing out designs on family, friends, and enemies. I wish I could find a video of Patrick presenting because, in addition to being helpful and informative, he’s quite the comedian.

As for Royksopp, their video (and how I came across it) helped me distill my attraction to technical writing: proximity to cool. Effectively, my job description in the general case (and specifically at Google this summer) is to get to know some new area of knowledge and then tell people about it. Who else gets to do that?

Tags: {conference, music, royksopp, stc, video}

  1. Update: Apparently, Mr. Hofmann’s session materials are available as a PowerPoint presentation on the STC site.

    — Daniel Beck    07/02/2007 10:59 PM    #

  2. I love Royksopp. Only this moment, Eple, Sparks are all good songs other than Remind Me.

    — Whitney    07/06/2007 03:42 PM    #

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