We don’t want to toot our own horn, but this week’s issue is chalk full of quality content. 🎺
WHAT’S INSIDE ✍
Issue #191 (July 6th, 2022)
UX writing for introverts
Design-driven localization
"Offline" files now
Don’t be a wankpuffin
ARTICLES 🗞
😶 Writing is a natural profession for introverts—dark room, alone with your laptop, maybe a cat on your lap. But if you work on a product team, you’ll have to deal with the M word: meetings.
No worries! Anja Wedburg and a plucky group of event attendees have a slew of tips to help introverts survive and thrive as UX writers.
🌐 Design-driven localization is a new way to think about translation, and it's transforming the way global companies localize. What it is, and how to get started, right here.
😎 So, you finally landed that job. Time to kick your feet up, right? Wrong! What it’s time for is making the most of your first 90 days on the job—from day one through day 90.
Sign up for Delta SkyMiles and you’ll see this screen, which has a truly impressive amount of brain-aneurysm-inducing alphanumeric gibberish.
PILLARS OF COMMUNITY 🏛
Community answers to trending topics. Join the conversations below.
UPSKILL: FREELANCING 📚
Looking to explore the world of freelance UX writing? Check out a new resource by Slater Katz, aka the Gig Gal.
She’s just dropped a weekly roundup newsletter with helpful freelance tips called Monday Morning Mojo. It might just end up being your second favorite newsletter. 😉😉
Monique Angeli is a Brazilian UX writer in Ireland. Her simple Weebly site has some great student project examples. Drop her a line if you’re in Dublin.
If you don’t mind some <clears throat> colorful language, this is a fascinating analysis of compound pejoratives (multiword curses and insults) used on Reddit, complete with matrices and data sets.
