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Abby Covert
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Abby Covert's personal blog at abbycovert.com covers design and writing. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-12, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Abby Covert's writing on diagrams and technical communication, including her book Stuck. Commenters point to it as a guide to conceptual diagrams and to how diagrams help conversations.
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Articles, talks, tools and case studies for sensemakers from an IA on a mission to make information architecture accessible to everyone.
What Hacker News says?
Don't forget about diagrams! Words are important, but diagrams can really get concepts across. And not just the "technical" diagrams (sequence diagrams, flowcharts), but conceptual ones. I really like Abby Covert's new book on diagrams: "Stuck": https://abbycovert.com/stuck
Comment linking /stuck
on “Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing?”Submitted Diagram Critique Bingo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI believe that one of the big things that diagrams help with is maintaining state while having a conversation. You don't have to keep track of so many things in your head and it works in a similar way to the "tell ’em what you’re gonna tell ’em, tell ’em, and then tell ’em what you’ve told ’em" style of presenting--your audience gets to see up front what journey you are taking them on. There's a great book by Abby C…
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on “Architecture diagrams enable better conversations”