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Is EN ISO 12100 no longer harmonised under the Machinery Directive?

Is EN ISO 12100 no longer harmonised under the Machinery Directive?

Usability as a Holistic Product Feature

Usability as a Holistic Product Feature

What a Usability Test can do for your Technical Documentation.

The Safety Chapter – What Really Counts!

The Safety Chapter – What Really Counts!

Practicality instead of formality.

How to feed your Chatbot – Beat the Bot

How to feed your Chatbot – Beat the Bot

Challenge the voice assistant so it can improve.

"Augmented Documentation" in Practice

Our article in the current Springer Reference Book on Digital Services.

"It all depends on the mindset! Design Thinking for industry-related services, whether analog or digital"

Specialist Article by kothes Innovation Manager Christopher Rechtien appears in "HMD Praxis".

How to feed your Chatbot – Build the Bot

How to feed your Chatbot – Build the Bot

Can Technical Editors Build Voice Assistants?

How to feed your Chatbot – Design the Bot

How to feed your Chatbot – Design the Bot

Voice assistant design with key use cases.

kothes and SCHEMA become Silver Partners

kothes and SCHEMA become Silver Partners

How to feed your Chatbot

How to feed your Chatbot

Voice assistants: Also a topic for Service and User Information?

On the Trail of the

On the Trail of the "Error Gremiln"

The benefits of proofreading – much more than proper spelling.

Quality Assurance in Translations

Quality Assurance in Translations

3 tips for the sustainable correction of sub-optimal translations.

GUI and user information in-line

GUI and user information in-line

Design target group-specific user interfaces.

What is actually smart about information?

What is actually smart about information?

Lars Kothes describes why we are no longer called "Technical Communication".

kothes Roadshow 2018

kothes Roadshow 2018

Theory Meets Practice.

The DIN EN 82079-1 Edition 2: The new Draft of

The DIN EN 82079-1 Edition 2: The new Draft of "DIN EN 82079-1"

What’s new this time?

CE Marking

CE Marking

The most important information about the Declaration of Conformity.

DIN EN ISO 20607: A new standard for operating manuals for machines

DIN EN ISO 20607: A new standard for operating manuals for machines

Inspiration now!

Management of Supplier Documentation

Management of Supplier Documentation

Successfully define, review, and manage in three steps.

kothes is a contributing member of the iiRDS consortium

kothes is a contributing member of the iiRDS consortium

Join in instead of just talking about it