Socializing UX Work: The What, Why, and How
Although more and more companies are wising up to the impact of good UX, socializing your work to your team and advocating for your role can still be frustrating staples of a career in UX.
Although more and more companies are wising up to the impact of good UX, socializing your work to your team and advocating for your role can still be frustrating staples of a career in UX.
Table of Contents I have the privilege of meeting every single new UX writer we
In this article, we’ll try to clear up some of that noise to set the right expectations about what you’re signing up for when you take on a career in UX content.
While the word “content” is broad and used in many disciplines, here we’ll focus on how the Ops discipline can be implemented in product content.
I started a month-long journey to find the perfect platform to create a UX writing / content design portfolio. Here’s the list ranked by ease of use.
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Table of Contents Ask ten UX writers/content designers what they did previously in their careers, and
Whether it’s 10 years into your career or before you’ve even had your first day at work, getting laid off sucks. The loss of income and the fear of what comes next can be overwhelming and stressful.
Good designers create products with UX in mind. In this article, we explore how UX Writers can apply design heuristics to their copy.
Accessibility is at the heart of creating high-quality user experiences. As UX writers, our job is to write content that makes a product usable for everyone, including those living with disabilities and those interacting with products differently.
In 2021, Sessions had never had a dedicated product writer on the team. So they decided to join the UX Writing Accelerator, a program where UX Writing Academy students work on a real project with a real company, led by an experienced mentor.
When you’re applying for your first UX writing and content design job, there can be a lot of uncertainty about what to expect in the hiring process. Here’s a guide to what to expect in the interview process for UX writing jobs.
Many aspiring UX writers want insight into what the job really entails—what will they be expected to do? What will they be expected to know? How will I know how much or how little I should do? And where do I draw the line? These questions give me an opportunity to offer a clearer picture of what a real-life job in UX writing is about.
For those who want to be in the heart of a tech company’s development process, content design and UX writing are growing fields with a lot of opportunities for English majors to increase their earning potential and have a meaningful, lucrative career.
In this article, we’ll examine stats about writers and designers in the workplace. We’ll look at the ratio of writers to designers, how involved writers are in decision-making, how these play out in different countries and sectors, and more.
Table of Contents Today, it’s clear that Figma is the primary tool used for UI/UX design.
As UX writers and content designers, it’s up to us to make sure a user finds answers to their questions as they arise. Or, even better, to design an experience that not only anticipates those questions but eliminates any reason they’d need to ask it to begin with.
UX writing as a full-timer is great and all, but if you’re craving a lower barrier to entry to get into UX writing, higher earning potential, independence, and remote UX writing, freelance is where it’s at.