So, I Think I May Want to Be a UX Writer—but What Do You Do Exactly?
Over the past few years, I've been on the "knower of things" side in several informational interviews with friends of friends looking to get into the business of UX writing. Here are some of the resources I shared with them to learn more about everything from microcopy to content strategy, information architecture and back again.
Books
The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World
by Chris Barr (Ed)
The book I wish I'd had when I was starting out. Who knew Yahoo! had all this figured out back in 2010? I sure didn't!
by Andy Welfle and Michael Metts
Helps define UX writing as a design practice.
by Kristina Halverson, 2nd edition
Another oldie, but goodie. Everything you need to know about content strategy, I think...
Podcasts
https://www.contentstrategy.com/
Halverson's podcast. Episode after episode of people trying to explain content strategy, lol.
These are the biggest names in the business.
Conferences
This is the place to be.
Study Guides + Design Systems
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-writing-study-guide/
Nielsen Norman is pretty much the UX expert on pretty much everything.
Especially the content section.
Especially the content section.
https://contentdesign.intuit.com/
The whole thing is a content section!
But Aren't You Worried AI Is Going to Take Your Job?
Umm... not yet.
