Ux writer skills9/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Typing in the term on Medium, Twitter, or Linkedin will spit out some great articles and also point you in the direction of some people in the field who regularly share insights and thoughts. ![]() Nicole Michaelis: Here’s the good news: There are a lot of great, free resources out there to help you learn and even practice UX writing. How can I learn more about UX writing? Any classes or courses or books you’d recommend? Show your process as much as your craft and writing skills! That could mean doing a competitive audit of a product or industry and creating mockups or designing research questions and hypotheses you’d want to explore. Be upfront about assumptions you're making, from business goals and user problems to segmentation. How do I build a portfolio without any experience?įran Catanuso: You can always build a portfolio from auditing a product or site you love, or a flow from the organization you’re applying to. Showing empathy for people and being collaborative in your approach are necessary for a UX writing career. Understanding design, how user experience is shaped, how data influences your work, and being a great storyteller are all things that contribute to your writing experience. I think it’s important to state that while writing is the final output of the work we do, it helps to understand what goes into writing strings or copy. What other kinds of writing help prepare someone for a UX writing career?Īnjana Menon: All sorts of writing! Copywriting, technical writing, journalism, support content writing, etc. We can be as fluent as native speakers, and we’re used to speaking to other non-native speakers, so it’s really easy for us to simplify the language so everyone can understand what we’re saying. People often hold an unconscious bias towards non-native speakers because of where we’re born and raised, without any consideration for our level of speaking and understanding of the language. The notion that you can only hire native speakers is old-fashioned and not inclusive. Sometimes, when I’m struggling to write something in English, I try to say it in another language in my head and then translate it back, and that’s how I write something in the simplest way possible. I can immediately tell when something won’t work from a localization perspective. I consider knowing multiple languages my superpower. I know the rules, grammar, tenses, etc., which help my editorial skills. I tried using this to my advantage because I’ve *studied* English. Finding a job wasn’t easy, especially when I’m classified as a non-native speaker. I worked at an Indian tech startup where I did all sorts of copy and communications-related things, and then moved into UX writing. My career kicked off in publishing and then veered into tech. How did you get into UX writing? (especially as a non-native speaker)Īnjana Menon: Like most people, I didn’t know UX writing was an actual job until I started doing it. Sounds too good to be true? It’s not! We answer everything, from how to get a job at Spotify to what our day-to-day work looks like. A couple of us UX writers have teamed up, collected your most frequently asked questions, and packaged them into this neat little post that has all the answers you’ve been looking for. And while we’re busy with, well, writing, we don’t want to keep you guessing. Yup, that’s what we do and that’s what we get lots of questions about. ![]()
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