UX WRITER MADE EASY

UX Writer Made Easy!

We daily use many digital applications. Living a life without them is unavoidable. A UX writer helps to communicate between users and products. Before understanding what a UX writer is and what he/she does, let us have a look at the picture given below

Users come across this type of interface. They will find the left image tolerating, unclear and confusing. The right image is quite clear giving accurate information. A good UX writer made it easy to comprehend by giving this clear picture.

What does a UX writer do?

• He/she crafts words to guide the user through an app or a website. Creates the copy used throughout a digital product to enhance UI.

Copy refers to?labels for commands that appear in buttons, menu items, and other action-oriented elements in the user interface.

• ?UX designers and writers work together for a better user experience.
• Brings customers’ perspectives and answers consumers’ questions.
• Creates content design that helps determine the kind of content to be shown on different mediums.
• Aligns with the brand goals, vision and mission of the product.
• Avoids long blocks of text. Helps copy users interact with while using a product, which includes buttons, error messages, notifications, form fields, loading screen messages etc.

A good UX writer Keeps skills and knowledge up to date, to make the message clear and understandable to the users. Let’s take a glance at some of them

• Technical Writing Skills
• Grammar skills
• Communication skills
• Analytical skills
• Basic usability testing skills
• Basic knowledge of some design tools
• User experience, user research and user-centric thinking skills

Do’s and Don’ts of UX writing. A good UX writer should be

• Clear; does not include technical terms for clarity.
• Concise; making sure that every word on the screen has a distinct meaning, let us apprehend with an example:

It is well said by Rohan Baruah

“UX Writing is like an Art of designing with Words!”

In short, we conclude that a good UI/UX design is incomplete without a good writer; that makes sure every step of the user flow is focused on the user’s need!?