A designer’s starter guide to technical documentation

A short and sweet list of the long and dense documents designers need to understand for success.

Employees working on large load of relief vouchers in the Department of Finance and Statistics at National Headquarters of the Red Cross. Published in the Red Cross Courier, August 1931, p. 427. Photographer: unknown. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62–101926

It usually goes something like this.

When: any given day.

Who: a friendly engineering project manager.