UX Writing Weekly #227

WHAT’S INSIDE ✍️

Issue #227 (Mar 15th, 2023)

• Content design artifacts

• UX writing tips from Microsoft

• Beary good microcopy

• Free UX localization event: TOMORROW!

ARTICLES 🗞

🏺 Artifacts, aka documents, templates, tools, and thingamajiggies, are the things that help us get the job done. 

Here are three awesome UX artifacts—and how to use them—from an experienced senior UX content designer. 

3 Content Design Artifacts I Can’t Live Without

MICROCOPY BITE 💬

The single most relatable empty state text ever written! 

Unfortunately, Remembear is closing down. But its parent app, TunnelBear, is going strong and is chock-full of delightful microcopy.

PILLARS OF COMMUNITY 🏛

Community answers to trending topics. Join the conversations below.

UPSKILL: EVENTS & WORKSHOPS 📚

Free event:

Join Michal Kessel Shitrit for the next UX Writing Hub event. Say goodbye to translated strings, and hello to localized experiences as Michal talks about why—and how—you should insist on UX writing skills for your loc teams. (March 16)

Register for free: Localization + UX: The Key to a Great Global Experience

Podcast:

Join Content designer Ilana Zholobovsky to talk about:

• The importance of networking and how to do it

• Freelancing as a way to gain experience

• Different ways of reading books

• Collecting words and phrases around you

• The current status of AI tools

The content design of everyday things with Ilana Zholobovsky @ LastPass

PORTFOLIO 🖌

Tyler Lyman’s portfolio is perhaps the most unique design we’ve seen. It’s built as a Figma prototype, and though unconventional, it’s still easily navigated. Check it out.

Tyler Lyman

JOBS 💼

SaaS platform Boomi helps organizations connect everything and engage everywhere across any channel, device, or platform. And, it was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the best workplaces.

Check out their opening for a senior UX writer. (USA, remote) 

Or, see jobs from Adidas, IBM, and more on the job board.

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THIS WEEK IN AI 🤖

As the dust begins to settle on the big ChatGTP shake-up, we’re starting to gain perspective on the current state of AI writing tools.

Some think that ChatGPT won’t kill ‘writing’, but it WILL kill ‘content’ — and that’s a good thing.

And, is Prompt Engineering the job of the future, or just a passing fad?

Oh, right, and GPT-4 just dropped. 🤯

SHARING IS CARING 🤲

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