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Beating the Blank Page
Steve Portigal
@steveportigal
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We help companies to plan
strategically for user research and to
unlock their research super powers.
Portigal
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Resources, presentations and to purchase
http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/interviewing-users/
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In which Steve
explains how exactly
you should go about
this writing thing
which isn’t like hard
or anything.
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Shyeah, right.
This is a journey.
I have some
thoughts.
But it’s about you as
an individual.
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Shyeah, right.
This is a journey.
I have some
thoughts.
But this is an
individualized topic.
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Figure out what you
want to cover
Sequence
Some light structuring
Prime the makin’-
words machine
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After the brain dump,
you have to go back
and clean it up.
Or maybe you
alternate dumping and
cleaning up.
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Depending on your
personality type you
may strongly prefer one
of these approaches
over the other.
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Depending on your
personality type you
may strongly prefer
one of these
approaches versus the
other.
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Beating the Blank Page ‹#› Portigal
Click to edit Master title styleBlog posts
Evernote bits
Transcripts of talks
Other bits and pieces you already gots
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Successive editing passes
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Individual
differences
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Chapter
differences
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differencesMove between media to edit
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Other
approaches?
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Your turn to write
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Reflection
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Portigal Consulting
www.portigal.com
@steveportigal
steve@portigal.com
Thank you!

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Beating the Blank Page

  • 1. 1 Beating the Blank Page Steve Portigal @steveportigal
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