Some thoughts on producing high-quality design articles that actually get shared.
Fighting Feature Names
You don’t need Proper Nouns to refer to features consistently.
My most-used UX writing tool is Pastebot
Work faster and lose your place less with a big, super-powered clipboard.
Cuddle the Muddle: Paths into UX Content
It’s not easy to build a complex set of interrelated, esoteric skills in an ever-evolving landscape of people and technology and business. But it would be weird if it were easy.
On the Value of Content Design: Proving or Providing?
You can’t climb a non-existent fence.
Apps and Services I’ll Keep Using in 2021
The productivity, writing, design, and entertainment apps and services I’m still using (and paying for) in 2021.
It’s just words on websites
Unless you are working on content that is getting carved into a monument or put on a plaque being sent into space for future civilizations to find, you have my permission to relax.
You don’t have to be a native speaker to excel as a UX writer
This originally appeared in Issue 037 of UX Writing Events. Do you think non-native speakers of a language can be good UX writers in that language? I sure do. I get asked some version of that question fairly often. Someone asked again just this weekend! So I thought I’d expand what I shared with that person and…
My 2020 Playlist
In 2018, I started collecting songs I heard out in the world to a playlist. Anything that resonated in the moment, new or nostalgic. Obviously, the world was quite different when I started this habit. Like most folks who weren’t essential workers or selfish assholes, I spent most of 2020 at home. No concerts, no…
Big whoop
This originally appeared in Issue 035 of UX Writing Events. Twitter finally did it. Big whoop. I wrote on LinkedIn recently that I’m embarrassed to be a tech worker right now, but if I can be even more honest with you, the feeling is closer to shame. I’ve never worked at Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Discord, Shopify, Spotify, or any of the many…
A request and an invitation for UX event organizers
Don’t let high-quality online events be a passing fad.