Patrick Hofmann :: What technical writing taught me about design at Google

We hosted Patrick Hofmann, Senior User Experience Designer on the Google Maps team in Sydney, at Mesh for the talk "What technical writing taught me about design at Google".

Hofmann trained as a technical writer and specialises in visual information design. For more than twenty years he had helped companies improve the usability of their products, often by turning text into pictograms, maps, symbols and icons, and he taught information designers and developers to communicate with pictures.

In the talk he traced his path from technical writer, illustrator and instructional designer to information architect, usability researcher and interaction designer. He looked at which principles had held up, which had changed and which he would take back, reviewing the past two decades and looking ahead to the next two.

Speakers

• Patrick Hofmann, Senior User Experience Designer, Google Maps, Google (Sydney) — What technical writing taught me about design at Google

The original event page is on meetup.com.