Minimalism authoring: some resources

“The essence of the minimalist approach is to obstruct as little as possible the learner’s selfinitiated efforts to find meaning in the activities of learning.” (John M. Carroll)

Basics by John M. Carroll and Hans van der Meij

•  Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel

• First Minimalist Manual 

• Minimalism principles  

Applications

• An application of the Principles of Minimalism to the Design of Human-Computer Interfaces

•  Minimalism updated 2012 

•  Minimalism and DITA enable significant cost savings for Avaya Telephone manuals

• What make minimalism so popular today?

•  Scenarios and Minimalism, by Bill Gearhart

• Minimalism: a cereal killer

•  List of references

Academic research

•  The minimalist Approach to Online Instructional Videos, by EH Pflugfelder, published in Volume 60, Number 2, May 2013 l Technical Communication

•  John Carroll's The Nurnberg Funnel and Minimalist Documentation,  by David Farkas in IEEE Transactions on Professionnal Communication, vol.33, No 4, December 1990

•  Ten misconceptions about minimalism, by Dr. Hans van der Meij 

• Applying Minimalist Principles, Strategies, and Techniques, by Susan M.J. Lester

• Goal-orientation, goal setting and goal-driven behavior in (minimalist) user instructions,  by  Dr. Hans van der Meij, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, 50 (4) 295-205

Complementary reading

•  Content Curation: Building bridges between web writing and DITA Authoring

• User scenarios - A Center Point for User Learning
• Structured authoring 
• Why Don't People read the manual?
• Why users don't  read that f... manual? (video)

Se former aux techniques du minimalisme 

Le prochain atelier "documentation minimaliste" aura lieu les 29 et 30 septembre 2014 à Liège. Qu'on se le dise ;-)