A curated list of awesome resources about technical communication, including but not limited to technical writing, technical translation, UX & UI, content strategy, content marketing, DevRel (developer relations), developer marketing, open source, and community.

Table of Contents:

• Resources in English
  • 🏫 Organizations
  • 📚 Books and Guides
  • 🌐 Blogs and Websites
  • 🎓 Courses and Training
  • 📻 Podcasts
  • 📰 Journals
• Resources in Chinese 中文资源
• Stargazers over time

This section lists the selected resources in English.

• Write the Docs
• STC (Society for Technical Communication)
• tcworld
  • tcworld China
  • tcworld India
• tekom Europe
• ACM SIGDOC (ACM's Special Interest Group on Design of Communication)
• Content Wrangler
• IEEE PCS (IEEE Professional Communication Society)

• IBM or IBM Press
  • The IBM Style Guide
  • Developing Quality Technical Information
  • DITA Best Practices
  • IBM Design
    • Design Philosophy
    • Enterprise Design Thinking (activities and courses)
  • IBM Design Language
  • IBM Carbon Design System Content Guidelines
• Google
  • Google Developer Documentation Style Guide
  • Google Material Design Writing Guidelines
• Microsoft
  • Microsoft Writing Style Guide
  • Microsoft Localization Style Guides for Different Languages
    • Microsoft Chinese (Simplified) Style Guide
  • Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications

• The Chicago Manual of Style (Online)
• ASD Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100)
• The Handbook of Technical Writing
• Technical Communication: A reader-centered approach
• Living Documentation: Continuous Knowledge Sharing by Design
• Technical Translation: Usability Strategies for Translating Technical Documentation
• DITA for Print: A DITA Open Toolkit Workbook
• Design Thinking in Technical Communication: Solving Problems through Making and Collaboration
• Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
• Oxford Guide to Plain English
• Microcopy: The Complete Guide
• Laws of UX
  • Book: Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
• Strategic Writing for UX: Drive Engagement, Conversion, and Retention with Every Word
• The User's Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love
• User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
• Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
• GOV.UK Service Manual and Content Design

• DevRel
  • Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
• Open source
  • The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
  • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
• Community
  • The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation
  • People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams

• I'd Rather Be Writing
• Content Wrangler
• DeveloperRelations.com
• TechWhirl
• ClickHelp Technical Writing Blog
• Scriptorium Blog
• ffeathers

• Google Technical Writing Courses for Engineers
• tcworld TCTrainNet Training Program with Certification

• Tech Comm

  • Write the Docs Podcast
  • Writers of Silicon Valley
  • The Content Strategy Podcast
  • I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast
  • The Cherryleaf Podcast
  • The Content Strategy Experts Podcast
  • Wireframe (Adobe)
  • The Not-Boring Tech Writer Podcast
  • 10-Minute Tech Comm
  • Content Content Podcast
  • Instrktiv's Insane Instructions Show
  • Knowledgebase Ninjas
  • The Manuscript
  • Grammar Girl

• Tech

  • Software Engineering Daily

    The World Through the Lens of Software

  • Kubernetes Podcast from Google

    A weekly news and interview show with insight from the Kubernetes community

  • The a16z Podcast (simplecast)

    Tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as "software eats the world"

• STC Technical Communication
• ACM Communication Design Quarterly Review
• Technical Communication Quarterly

• 技术传播那些事儿 (by Lilian Lee · lilin90)
  • 微信公众号 (ID: tc_fun)
  • 知乎专栏
• zh.md (by WPH95 & yikeke)
  • 中文技术文档写作风格指南（GitHub 仓库）
  • zhLint 中文技术文档检查工具
• TC 互联技术传播与技术写作社区 Technical Communicators in China
  • 官网
  • 微信公众号 (ID: tchulian)
• GitHub 新手指南：极简教程教你如何给开源仓库提 PR (by ran-huang & CharLotteiu)
  • Git 与 GitHub 基础概念
  • 如何创建一个 Pull Request (PR)
  • 跟进 PR 的后续操作
  • 批量接受 review 建议和处理 CI 检查
• 书籍
  • 《活文档：与代码共同演进》（译自英文版）
  • 《英语技术写作精要》（复旦大学出版社，但正文语言为英文）
• 课程
  • 重庆邮电大学《英语技术写作》慕课