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Books | UX Writing Resource Library
· All the recommended books on UX writing · Shared by 8, including Brain Traffic, Marius Bleuer
UX Magazine
Taking a look at our UX Writing Process
10 min · · UX writing is about crafting content that helps users navigate through a product seamlessly and successfully. · Shared by 6
UX Collective
UX writing tools for handling information overload
6 min · · How to write when no one will read · Shared by 6
UX Collective
Watch me, a UX writer, get a job during the coronapocalypse
8 min · · To the job-hunting UX writer, · Shared by 12
UX Collective
Creating a copy system along with your design system
4 min · · For Google Pay, we needed UX copy that extended from marketing through product, and across surfaces including mobile, web, and voice…
clevegibbon.com
Content Modeling Series
1 min · · A content model is a representation of structured content and this content modeling series shows you how to get self-started. · Shared by 7, including Oscar MacDonald
A List Apart
Priority Guides: A Content-First Alternative to Wireframes
20+ min · · The sirens’ song of wireframe visuals has been the thorn in the side of many a design project. With potential to undermine user-centricity, reduce team engagement, and limit creativity when it’s mo… · Shared by 482, including David Hellmann, designshard, Nir Eyal, Stephanie A Kowalski, Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌, Nick Floro, Mark Kaigwa, Matthias Lampe, Brain Traffic, Center Centre – UIE, Bjorn Larsen, Thomas Pleil, von Moerenburgh, Thomas Power, Gabriele, hiten.eth, Helmi, Casey Smith, Fabricio Teixeira, Dominik Grolimund
A List Apart
Attack of the Zombie Copy
4 min · · You’ve seen them around the web, these zombie sentences. They’re not hard to recognize: syntax slack and drooling, clauses empty of everything but a terrible hunger for human brains. He…
medium.com
Is this my interface or yours? — Medium
8 min · · A piece about perspective · Shared by 318, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Casey Smith, Florian Hanke 🍎, Matthias Lampe, bouiboui, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Dominik Grolimund, Lluís Codina, Weiting Chen, Luzius Meisser, Reto Laemmler, Parin Vachhani, Thomas Power, Clemens M. Schuster, Natan Souza, Jane, Roger Dudler, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Courtney Bolton ★
UX Booth
The Grammar of Interactivity
5 min · · We all shudder a little when we look back on the days of “Click here to…” calls to action. Jonathan Richards shares his method for determining the phrasing of interactive elements. · Shared by 8, including Stef Walter
A List Apart
Everyday Information Architecture: Auditing for Structure
8 min · · To rebuild a system, we must understand it. Enter the structural audit: a review of the site focused solely on its menus, links, flows, and hierarchies. Lisa Maria Martin explains in this excerpt f… · Shared by 65, including Niklaus Gerber, Oscar MacDonald, Jacob Jarnvall, Klaus Eck, Jochen Burkhard, Stu Collett, zeldman
A List Apart
Don’t Poke the Bear: Creating Content for Sensitive Situations
17+ min · · Delivering bad news is hard, but it’s part of life and business. We notify customers when we’re out of a product they want to buy, and we send warnings when people violate our companies’ terms of s… · Shared by 7, including Center Centre – UIE
Intercom
A content-first approach to product onboarding
9 min · · The words you use in your product's onboarding are critical to help your users find success. Here’s an approach to write a great onboarding experience. · Shared by 45, including Dominik Grolimund, Niklaus Gerber, Clemens
UX Collective
Loading animations — a UX writing exercise
9 min · · The overlooked piece of microcopy · Shared by 6
UX Planet
UX Writing: The Art of Designing Conversations
10 min · · What it means, how it helps, and best practices. · Shared by 41
UX Planet
5 Lessons Learned: Transitioning from a Technical Writer to a UX Writer
20+ min · · For roughly 20 years now, I have been involved in one aspect or another in information design. I started as a Web Designer back in the 90s… · Shared by 6