» Peter Vogel

With over 25 years of communicating technical information to business managers, clients, and developers, Peter Vogel has become a sought after writer and presenter at conferences around the world. Peter has four published books, including rtfm*: the little book on how to write so you’ll actually get read.

Peter has been a Learning Tree instructor since 1997 and is the author of the courses Technical Writing Introduction and UI and UX Optimized Software Design.

He instructs the following .NET courses for Learning Tree:
• Business and Report Writing
• Service-Oriented Architecture Introduction
• C# Programming
• .NET Best Practices and Design Patterns

You can follow Peter’s tweets (@phvogel) on communication with the hash tag #vogelcommunicate.

How to Write Genuinely Useful Headings

Sep 7, 2017

Peter Vogel

The headings in your email or larger documents are probably more important to your readers than what you’re actually writing about. Fortunately, it’s easy to figure out both how to write genuinely useful headings and to know where to put them in your emails or documents. How you’ll use your time getting this right, though, depends […]

Communication

headings, pantser, planner, reading process, sections, useful headings, writing

Design Thinking: The New Paradigm for Building Applications

Aug 29, 2017

Peter Vogel

A confluence of business trends and development best practices is changing the way developers need to think about building applications. For want of a better term, the mindset that most software developers follow when building applications might be called ‘systems thinking’: Design a database that holds the data the company needs, design the software components […]

Apple, applications, Dependency Inversion principle, design, design thinking, iPhone, SOLID principles, systems thinking, UI, UX

The 4 Reasons People Resist Change

Aug 16, 2017

Peter Vogel

If you want to have your good idea implemented then you have to make changes. Unfortunately, as people, we don’t like change and will actively resist it. Here are the four reasons people resist change and what you can do about each of them. Implementing a new idea means change and, as we all know, change is […]

Leadership

change, change curve, Change management, disruption, drec, resist change, resistance, surprises, trust, turbulence

The Two Fundamental Mistakes in Usability Testing

Aug 10, 2017

Peter Vogel

There are two mistakes that organizations make when doing usability testing. And once those mistakes are made, two things are certain: either end users won’t get an application they can actually use or, if they do, it will cost more and take longer. Organizations often make a fundamental mistake by thinking of usability testing as […]

UI/UX, Web Development

testing, UI, usability testing, User Experience design, user interface design, UX

3 Parts of Rewriting for Excellence

Jul 26, 2017

Peter Vogel

Writing clearly and effectively is difficult — in fact, there’s no chance that you’ll get it right the first time….which is why you get to rewrite. Rewriting isn’t about fixing your mistakes, rewriting is about adding excellence. Here’s a three-part plan for doing rewriting right.My buddy Mal Stiefel once said he was never at a loss for words […]

Communication

Audience, business writing, concept, design, glossary, implementation, readers, rewriting, technical writing, writing

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