Phil Loughhead

Phil is a member of the technical writing team, creating content that helps designers craft their next great idea in Altium's design software. Phil has been a part of the Protel / Altium team since the mid-nineties, working in technical support, training, product management and technical writing. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Diploma of Education from the University of Tasmania.

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New Altium Documentation So just how do you avoid creating a content dinosaur? Every so often, you stand back and ask, “is this working?”. Well, we’ve done that, and the answer was no. The content was simply too old, had too much missing, there were too many mistakes, it was too hard to find anything, and would take too much work to fix! It was old content that had started life being paper/pdf-based, which had not traveled well as it first moved to a wiki, then on to a Читать статью

If All Else Fails, Read the Instructions... Remember that catchphrase when you were an engineering student: If all else fails, read the instructions… By our very nature, engineers just love sussing things out – how does that work? Why is it like that? What does that switch do? Engineers and designers actually thrive on the challenge of working it out, poking and prodding, testing, examining, and thinking about how this amazing thing is meant to work. But not every device/product Читать статью