When reviewing or critiquing design work, it’s so, so, tempting to see something different…a different word, a different phrasing, a different pattern…and want to “fix” that difference. But making things consistent just for consistency’s sake sometimes leads us to the wrong choice.
Tag: writing
My most-used UX writing tool is Pastebot
Work faster and lose your place less with a big, super-powered clipboard.
The UX Writing Bible
If I could nominate one book to be our UX Writing Bible, it would be the Yahoo! Style Guide.
The effortful way
Job one is doing the job.
Four Tips on Writing About Design
Some thoughts on producing high-quality design articles that actually get shared.
How many content reviewers are enough?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a perfectly simple, data-driven answer to that question? “Based on an analysis of…
Who should own the text in our design process?
If you don’t articulate and assign the writing role, then either everyone is the writer, or no one is the writer. Neither situation is fun.
How do you estimate the time needed for doing the writing?
The project managers turns to you and asks: “How long is it going to take to write this?” Hoo boy. It’s time to proceed very, very carefully.
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…
Long paragraphs
“So often the long paragraphs I write in life are responses to Facebook posts, or reply letters to someone,…