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Instead of sending out valentines (we see you, Chelsea Larsson), we thought we’d round up some relevant UX writing and content design resources as a treat. From us, to you! Share this with a friend or coworker who could use some love today.
Content + design = a match made in heaven. We know you know this already, but it’s important to reiterate. Our teams—and ultimately our products—are better when we work together! Jan Rojcek, UX Director at Indeed, shares how their team improved communication and built a framework for effective collaboration. This is a must-read.
The 5 love languages at work. Are you more of a “words of affirmation” person? Or would you prefer tangible gifts? We all respond differently to different forms of recognition. Learn your teams’ love language (and your own) to increase productivity and avoid employee turnover. Both good things. Julia Vaughan offers up advice on the Writer blog.
Error messages as poetry. We love that the Condé Nast and Zendesk teams meet up to nerd out on content and talk shop. The latest outcome? They did a creative exercise on writing error messages as poems. Thanks to Sammie Spector, Chelsea Larsson, and Sophie Tahran for these microcopy masterpieces.
Giving feedback is #hard. But giving proper, helpful feedback is one of the most important tools in your content designer belt. In this new blog post, Taylor Rodwedder shares how to use it well.
Make the jump from writer to content designer. You’ve gotta start somewhere—and you have more applicable experience than you think. This post from Emma Schmidt on the Dropbox Design blog has some great pointers. You can do it!
On being delightfully different. “Delight works by taking your experience minus your expectations. If the end result is a positive number, then you are delighted by that difference.” Cynthia Savard Saucier chats with Shopify’s CEO on the role design plays in the company. This article summarizes five key takeaways that we can all learn from!
