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4 Tips for Building a Successful Design System

If your organization is contemplating building a design system, a good place to start is clarifying what exactly a design system is. Many companies may think they already have a design system when, in fact, they only have a style guide or pattern library. At its core,...

How to Succeed at Your On-Site Job Interview

Congratulations! You impressed the hiring team during your phone interview, and now you are scheduled for an on-site, in-person sit down. Luckily, there are a series of basic steps you can take before your on-site interview to ensure that you’re at your best. From the...

The (Literal) Value of Good UX

Good design isn’t simply about aesthetics. Form really does follow function—all the way to the bank, in fact, according to a recent study by the consulting firm McKinsey. Tracking 300 publicly-traded companies over a five-year period, the study examined how these...

Preparing for a Successful Phone Interview

For decades, interviewing for a job meant going on-site and sitting down for a face-to-face chat. But now, initial interviews are often conducted voice-to-voice on the phone or screen-to-screen via video chat, especially for UX job applicants. Excelling at these...

Three Tips to Help Managers Improve Their Interview Process

Unemployment is extremely low, and top tier UX designers and other tech-focused workers are in high demand. For the first time in over a decade, employers are competing for talent, so it’s vital that managers adjust their interview process. Managers should assume that...

Trends in Leadership Across UX Design, Technical Writing, and eLearning

The workplace today is more competitive than ever, demanding everyone do more with less. Adapting to these constraints, and training staff to do the same, is one of the biggest challenges facing leaders in UX design, technical writing, and eLearning today. Read on to...

What is Service Design?

A design isn’t truly completed until it is in use. But how can UX designers ensure that product teams understand the needs of the user, challenge their assumptions, rethink issues and, finally, generate creative answers that can be tested? The answer is service...

How are Companies Using Jekyll and GitHub for Technical Documentation?

Why do developers tend to prefer Git as a version control system and GitHub to store their projects? What advantages does Jekyll offer for generating static websites? The answers to those questions clearly reveal why more and more companies are utilizing the storage...

How Do Product Managers and UX Designers Use the Agile Methodology?

Since 2001, the philosophy of the Agile method has spread around the world, with the original manifesto being translated into 60 different languages. Agile’s focus on breaking down projects into smaller goals to be accomplished and adding goals as needed allows...

DevOps Is Here to Stay

Have you heard of DevOps? I bet there is a great many of you that haven’t. If you aren’t familiar with the concept, then you need to be. DevOps is transforming the entire software space, affecting the UX and tech writing disciplines as well. There is a lot of...

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Paul Barrow

Documentation Manager

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Design Recruiter

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Erin McConaughey

Director of UI/UX at SessionM

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David Katz

VP User Experience at Virtusa

Client Testimonial "For many years, Carol and the Clearpoint team have been my partners in filling contract roles on Deltek’s documentation/training team. With each new hire, the Clearpoint team has listened carefully to my requirements and tracked down candidates with the right skills, experience, and intangible “stuff” – senior professionals who hit the ground running. I know that I’ve been picky and demanding, and Clearpoint has always come through for me."

Evelyn Osmond

Senior Director, Documentation at Deltek, Inc.

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Daniela Orlowski

Manager, Technical Communications at NxStage Medical, Inc.

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Courtney Walters

Senior Coordinator, Shockhoe Operations at CarMax

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