My most-used UX writing tool is Pastebot
Work faster and lose your place less with a big, super-powered clipboard.
writing tools
Nothing unfamiliar (Tools I used to write a book)
My book advises designers to be intentional about the tools they choose and use to do the writing on their projects. For writing a book, a thing I’d never done before, I ran a few experiments to see if there was any good and smart tool I hadn’t tried before that would make it easier. … continue
Scratchpad
An ode to the tools that help us remember.
Clipboard managers are a writer’s best friend
Do you write things on computers? You do. So you have a clipboard manager, right? My clipboard manager makes me feel like a ninja. I’m sliding and striking and chopping and spinning words and text and URLs without any worry about losing my balance or missing my objective. A clipboard manager is just what it … continue
Smaller Paper
A big blank canvas? Scary. A new Powerpoint deck with no slides? Scary. Designer notebooks packed with crisp, white, empty pages? I’ve abandoned dozens. My big ideas are built out of small ideas. I try to capture my small ideas in small, simple ways. Index cards. Plain text files. A few words added to a … continue