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Fundamentals of UX Writing

A practical UX writer course for people who want to understand and design effective product content in modern product teams – even as AI changes how content is created.

Learn real-world UX writing skills, get personal feedback and a UX writing certification, and build the craft and judgment needed to define, critique, and improve UI content.

Standard price: USD $ 1,200.00
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Meet the authors

Bobbie Wood
UXCC, Google, Intuit

Patrick Stafford
UXCC, MYOB

Carol Valdez
ServiceNow, Amazon

Gordon Macrae
Emeritus, General Assembly

Mike Strickland
Sling TV, Spectrum

Jeneba Wint
AvidXchange, LPL

Who is this course for?

People who are completely new to UX writing, including in adjacent roles like copywriting

Anyone who's thinking: "why do I need to learn UX writing if AI can do it for me?"

Members of product teams who want to learn UX writing best practices for content at scale

Anyone else interested in a UX writer course that teaches practical skills taught by experts

“Taking the Fundamentals of UX Writing course was an important step in my career evolution from Product Manager to UX Content Strategist."
Kristen Mirenda
Designer
“The Fundamentals of UX Writing course and my overall experience with the UX Content Collective have given me great confidence in my abilities as a UX Writer."
Antonio Mendez
UX Writer

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UX writers decide what should be said, where it belongs, and whether it works. This course teaches the judgment and structure behind effective product content – skills that matter whether you’re writing with a pen or AI.

We’ll also add you to our UX writing newsletters, full of useful resources

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About the course

  • 40-60 hours
  • Student community
  • Lifetime access

What do you leave with?

  • Learn UX writing and how it applies to product content
  • Hands-on experience writing for real UI components like buttons, forms, and error states
  • The ability to make smart, user-focused decisions no matter the tool you're using
  • Guidance on using AI as part of your workflow, not a replacement for it
  • Best practices for accessibility, localization, and inclusive content
  • Confidence working within product teams and contributing at every stage
  • A challenging final project built in Figma
  • A UX writing certification

How does the Fundamentals of UX Writing course work?

Hands-on exercises

Complete challenging work that reflects real-world scenarios at the end of each unit.

Personalized feedback

Get personalized feedback at the end of each unit from working content designers.

Final project in Figma

Finish with a comprehensive, challenging project to showcase your skills.

Fundamentals of Support Content Certificate

Earn a certificate

Showcase your UX writing certification on LinkedIn.

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Fundamentals of UX Writing course syllabus

What is UX Writing?

  • Lesson 1: What is UX Writing?
  • Lesson 2: What a UX Writer actually writes
  • Lesson 3: The responsibilities of a UX writer
  • Lesson 4: The people a UX Writer typically works with
  • Lesson 5: Working within the design process
  • Lesson 6: The role of AI in design
  • Lesson 7: How to use AI in the design process

Work with voice and tone

  • Lesson 1: Defining the who and how behind content
  • Lesson 2: Understanding impact of voice and tone
  • Lesson 3: Mapping tone across the experience
  • Lesson 4: Defining style
  • Lesson 5: Check your content with users

Keep it short

  • Lesson 1: Why keep it short?
  • Lesson 2: Best practices for scannability
  • Lesson 3: Right content, right user, right time
  • Lesson 4: UX writing. vs other writing
  • Lesson 5: Put your editing skills to work

Write for components

  • Lesson 1: Best practices for component writing
  • Lesson 2: Guidance elements: instructions, tooltips, and empty states
  • Lesson 3: Writing user actions - dialogs, CTAs and buttons
  • Lesson 4: Writing effective communications - notifications, alerts, and errors
  • Lesson 5: Writing user inputs - lists and forms
  • Lesson 6: A few extra bits and pieces

Create UX writing deliverables

  • Lesson 1: What you'll create as a UX Writer
  • Lesson 2: Create a style guide
  • Lesson 3: Document and organize your content
  • Lesson 4: Introduce your product to users
  • Lesson 5: Test your content
  • Lesson 6: Write for translation and localization
  • Lesson 7: Write for accessibility

Work with teams

  • Lesson 1: The UX writing workflow
  • Lesson 2: UX writing and usability testing
  • Lesson 3: Managing relationships with stakeholders
  • Lesson 4: Managing conflict
  • Lesson 5: The tools you need to work in a team

Craft your portfolio

  • Lesson 1: Keep track of your work
  • Lesson 2: How to write a case study
  • Lesson 3: How many case studies should you write?
  • Lesson 4: How to lay out your portfolio

Error Messages

  • Error Messages: Introduction
  • Lesson 1: Foundations
  • Lesson 2: Form fields
  • Lesson 3: Systems

Learn UX writing with over 5,000 students

"Our product team made a content update using the ideas from the Fundamentals of UX Writing course. We've since seen a 20% increase in conversions."
Sam DeReign
Group Content Strategist, Course Hero
“One of the pieces of support that your UX writing certification provides for me is that newer team members are able to explain why something’s being written in the way that it has.”
Craig Bell
Director of Content, Xello
"We wanted a fundamental training that provided a calibration for some basic understanding on how we do our daily work."
Isabelle Gao
Senior UX Writing Lead, HSBC
"The material is excellent and so thorough! I'm so impressed. It's such a wonderful resource for our discipline."
Jen Schaefer
Head of Content Design, PayPal

A UX writer course graded by experts

Olivea McCollins

Content Designer,
Microsoft

Jenny Cowan

Content Design Team Lead, Later

Daree Allen Nieves

Freelance Content Designer

Thy Nguyen

Principal Content Designer, Walmart

Sammie Spector

Design Lead, Vogue

Casey Webb

Senior Content Designer, eBay

Some frequently asked questions

Is a course the best way to learn UX writing?

Not everyone needs a course to learn UX writing. But a course like ours can offer you the fundamentals in a structured way, without having to search and collect all the resources yourself. 

Plus, you’ll get feedback from real people who work in the industry. That’s worth a lot when it comes to finding mistakes or things you might miss on your own.

Yes, we think UX writing is important to learn even when using artificial intelligence. Although AI can be a great tool when writing for user interfaces, you still need to know what separates “good” UX writing from “bad” UX writing.

There are a lot of great courses out there. Courses from UX Content Collective are different because we’re a training provider created by content designers, run by content designers, for content designers. 

We also combine the benefits of self-paced learning, along with real feedback from real people. You can learn according to your own schedule.

Yes! The Fundamentals of UX Writing course offers a certification in UX writing, once you successfully complete the final project.

Yes! The Fundamentals of UX Writing course requires you to learn at least some basic Figma skills to complete the final project. We include some instructional videos to learn Figma from the perspective of a content designers and UX writer.

The Fundamentals of UX Writing course offers personal written feedback on assignments at the end of each unit. We also offer a separate coaching service if you want to meet with a mentor.

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