UX Writing Weekly #154

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WHAT’S INSIDE ✍️


Issue #154 (Oct 19th, 2021)
  • Clarity in UX terminology
  • Airtable for UX research
  • Does the perfect font exist?
  • Microcopy generation tools



ARTICLES 📰

⚔️ You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Plenty of UX terms lack consistent usage, even among experienced UXers. Lucky for us, this article brings some much-needed clarification and does some myth-busting along the way.

9 Commonly Misused UX Design Terms

🔬 UX research: sometimes it’s everybody’s job. But if you find yourself lost in a deluge of documents and data, there is a better way. Learn a great approach to using Airtable for UX research.

Getting started with UX research and Airtable

🔡 You probably won’t be designing a new font any time soon. But you can still advocate for readability in the products you work on. From grotesque vs. humanist to mirroring and more, you’ll be a font pro in no time with:

5 Key Features of Readable Typefaces




MICROCOPY BITE 💬

Here’s a unique design feature from Google Ads. It uses purposeful friction to prevent a costly mistake when increasing the daily budget. The microcopy is just right too: clear and to the point.




TRENDING IN UX 🐦



UPSKILL: PODCAST 📚

Pieterjan Benoit is more than just a UX Writing Hub team member — he’s also a great guy and a good friend. With a background in corporate communications and PR, he has tons of wisdom to share about interacting with people — a skill that comes in handy for UX writers.

Empathy for crisis management with UX Writer Pieterjan Benoit




JOBS 👔


Wonderful new job opportunities this week, so dust off those resumes.

Zalando has multiple openings, including a senior UX writer and a UX writing manager.

Coople has a part-time UX writing position in London, and Discord is looking for a UX writing in San Francisco or remote.

And of course:



PORTFOLIO 🎨


Rebekah Wolf is a writer, editor, and content strategist living in Seattle. Her portfolio site isn’t fancy — and it doesn’t need to be. Clear, clean, and navigable.

Drop her a line some time.

https://www.rebekahwolf.com/team




MICROCOPY TOOLS ⚙️

Something different this week: a range of free microcopy generation tools. Fun stuff here — play around with them a bit.

  • Speak Human: Generate human-centric microcopy for all purposes
  • Microcopy.me: Short text for your website
  • INK: Microcopy Generator (and many other useful generators!)



VOX POPULI 🗣️

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See you next week!

— Written and curated by Yuval Keshtcher, Aaron Raizen, and the UX Writing Hub team —


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