Excosoft

22/12/2020

From our team to yours, we'd like to wish you all a happy and healthy holiday season and a successful new year ahead!

In the spirit of gratitude, this year we’re donating to Doctors Without Borders. It's an organization that provides lifesaving medical humanitarian care around the world—even during pandemics.

And yes, our support team will be open during the days in between. So please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need any assistance.

Wishing you a happy and healthy holiday season, and a successful new year ahead!

25/10/2018

Jonatan Lundin presents Finder 1.0 at Skribenta User Forum

07/09/2018

Will you be at Nordic Tech Komm this year? Don’t miss our resident information architect Jonatan Lundin’s presentation on September 26, at 14:50.

Jonatan will explain why users often misunderstand or reject information in user manuals, and discuss how technical communication professionals can redesign information in a better, more user-centric way.

Learn more: http://excosoft.com/blog/event/jonatan-lundin-at-nordic-tech-komm/

29/01/2018

We're proud to announce our contribution to "Innofacture," an academic research project at Mälardalen University with the purpose of strengthening the competitiveness of the Swedish manufacturing industry on the global market.

We are proud to announce our contribution to "Innofacture," an academic research project at Mälardalen University with the purpose of strengthening the competitiveness of the Swedish manufacturing industry on the global market. Innofacture (INNOvative manuFACTUREing) is focused on co-creating ...

30/12/2017

Are you a technical communicator who wants to learn how to design more usable user manuals?

Watch and learn from information architect and PhD researcher Jonatan Lundin, who spoke at this year's TcWorld conference.

How can we design technical information that users actually use? At Tcworld 2017 information architect Jonatan Lundin shared insights he gained researching...

25/10/2017

Don't miss our information architect, Jonatan Lundin, at Tcworld conference 2017.

On October 26, he will take the stage to talk about why users often misunderstand or reject user manuals and how technical communicators can address this problem with better information design.

Learn more: http://excosoft.com/blog/news/why-users-cant-understand-your-content/

11/05/2017

In our latest blogpost, Application and System Support Specialist Befrin Showani walks through three Skribenta solutions that simplify the job of the technical writer, and minimize all that boring manual work which often leads to human mistakes.

In my ten years working closely with tech writers, I’ve grown familiar with the kinds of challenges or “headaches” that often pop up, and equally familiar with how effectively Skribenta solves them.

13/04/2017

New from the blog: CTO Joakim Ström explains the tech writer-chef metaphor, and discusses our latest quest for the perfect review functionality for Skribenta.

Traditionally, the review functionality is often centered around reviewer comments. But we currently believe that for reusability, another concept is needed...

28/03/2017

Are you in Göteborg this week? Don't miss Jan Christian Herlitz' talk at the FTI conference.

The Swedish Association for Technical Information (FTI) holding a conference in Göteborg this week, and included in the speaker lineup is Excosoft CEO and Founder Jan Christian Herlitz.

23/03/2017

New from our blog: Excosoft founder and CEO, Jan Christian Herlitz explains the logic behind our alternative Wikipedia interface Wikiview, and why it will help you become a much more efficient information explorer.

Have you tried Wikiview yet? Visit: http://wikiview.excosoft.se

Something I’ve learned in my 37 years of building tools for structuring information is that the reading process is the most important part—and this is an area where Wikipedia, with its 10,000 word articles, could use some improvement.

03/03/2017

We’re big fans of Wikipedia. However, as structure-passionate documentation experts we couldn’t help but notice there's a little room for improvement.

Wikiview is an alternative user interface to Wikipedia pages that lets users navigate information in a more structured, Skribenta-like way.

10/02/2017

Are you one of those technical communicators who’s afraid to ask the expert engineer for input? Don’t stress. Here’s a guide that will help you develop a strategy for becoming more confident asking the right questions and, ultimately, getting the information end users need.

This guide includes 46 information architecture questions intended to help you get started developing your own set of explicit rules and principles (and feel more comfortable asking a SME for input).

29/12/2016

It's soon time to pack 2016 away in the archives. Here's a look back on our "red monkey year" of resolve, adventure, and innovation.

Thanks for being part of this journey with us. We wish you a happy new year! See you in 2017.

It's been an eventful year at Excosoft with many memorable changes and projects, each fondly filed away in its own expandable section. Days have passed, edges blurred in memory, efforts piled upon efforts, and soon new challenges will once again...

24/12/2016

To all of our customers, colleagues, and friends— thank you for helping make 2016 a great year!

22/12/2016

A party, Skribenta 5, and a chat with founder Jan-Christian Herlitz!

Recently, we had the honor of opening our doors to customers, colleagues, and friends to celebrate Excosoft's 30th anniversary as a company. We also took the opportunity to celebrate Skribenta 5 which, after three years of development, was finally ready for release.

12/12/2016

Äntligen!

Skribenta 5 has just been released. The big news about Skribenta 5 is the fact that it's entirely web-based—making the interfaces even easier to use, and giving you the flexibility to work from anywhere using your favorite device, as long as you're connected to the Skribenta server.

12/12/2016