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Not here much anymore. I wrote @designerswrite. I publish @uxwritingevents. Chaotic neurotic queer. 🏴‍☠️🤞🏻🏳️‍🌈 Blog: http://kubie.co 

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    1. Scott Kubie‏ @scottkubie 28 Feb 2019

      I fear the Dribbble-ification of interface content is accelerating now that everyone realizes UX writer is a hot job they can massage their resume into. I joined a bunch of microcopy and UX writing groups and its mostly screenshots of "clever" writing. Blerf.

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    2. Scott Kubie‏ @scottkubie 28 Feb 2019

      Creative fulfillment is unlikely to be part of your daily job as a #UXwriter. That's what the money is for. Start a zine or go to open mics or write fanfiction or something but keep the self-satisfying cleverness away from my finance and healthcare interfaces please, thanks.

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    3. Scott Kubie‏ @scottkubie 28 Feb 2019

      If you're coming from advertising and agency copywriting land to #UXwriting, hello, welcome. A tip: the snarky/cheeky/clever writing that made your favorite ad campaign "pop" and "feel fresh" is likely to "annoy the shit out of" users of your company's product.

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    4. Scott Kubie‏ @scottkubie 28 Feb 2019

      Your first job, always, is to write user-centered content. If it's not helping someone understand something, use something, learn something–if its sole function is to "express the brand", you have likely erred. Doesn't mean you can't have fun, or add delight, but it's secondary.

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    5. Scott Kubie‏ @scottkubie 28 Feb 2019

      If you're not user-centered you're missing the "UX" part of UX writer. UX writing, if it's anything, is a specialization of the (user experience) design role wherein words are your primary design material. The things you write are part of the product, not the packaging.

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    6. Scott Kubie‏ @scottkubie 28 Feb 2019

      This is a shift that I fear many newly-minted UX writers are not making. You're used to taking inspiration from culture and trends and what the competition is up to. Let users be your new inspiration. What do they care about? What do they need? What words resonate with them?

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      Scott Kubie‏ @scottkubie 28 Feb 2019

      A UX writer should be the person protecting the experience from marketing nonsense, not infecting it.

      6:21 PM - 28 Feb 2019
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        1. Scott Kubie‏ @scottkubie 28 Feb 2019

          Though I do have a Soundcloud, in case this thread blows up I will instead point you to my book about writing in the context of design: http://kubie.co/wfd  It endeavors to be a brief, nonsense-free guide to getting the writing done on your web and design projects.

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        2. Morgan Quinn (she/her)‏ @morganmquinn 1 Mar 2019
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          The UX writer’s job is to ensure the payoff is happening inside the product. Marketing is the promise. That copy should help inform the way we speak to the product so it’s recognizable to the user. “Remember that thing we promised you way back when? This is it.”

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        3. Morgan Quinn (she/her)‏ @morganmquinn 1 Mar 2019
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          I should stress that marketing copy doesn’t belong inside the product (a very common mistake), but the two need to work together to maintain consistency and deliver the payoff end to end.

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