- Women Who Code
- Ada Lovelace Day
- My presentation: How to look at a form
Ada Lovelace Day gave me an excuse to begin my presentation by mentioning a few of my own inspirations among women excelling in technology today.
Ginny Redish has been working on forms and official documents since the early 1980s and is a major influence on writing and editing.
- Ginny Redish’s website
- Letting Go of the Words by Ginny Redish
- My Editing that Works website influenced by Ginny.
Jessica Enders is a forms and surveys expert running her own company, Formulate, in Australia. Her work and advice is always immensely practical and useful. (Update in 2025: Jessica has changed her working focus away from forms.)
Karen Schriver ‘s book, Dynamics in Document Design: creating texts for readers, charted new territory and is still considered an essential work on information design – a field in which Karen continues to inspire.
Kathryn Summers is a leading expert on designing for people with lower literacy skills – particularly forms. She co-authored with Ginny and I the chapter ‘Designing for people who do not read easily’ in the 2013 book Rhetorical Accessibility.
- Read Kathryn Summers’ profile
- Rhetorical Accessibility: at the intersection of technical communication and disability studies