Writers in Tech

Feeling stuck when it comes to getting jobs and new UX writing projects?

Well, maybe a lot of your issues have to do with your own personal brand.

Building an online presence is what makes or breaks your UX writing and content design career.

I asked Cory Lebson, author of the UX Career handbook and probably the best UX courses on Lynda, what’s the secret sauce to building a network that gets you UX jobs for more than 10 years in a row.

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Candi Williams is a Content design manager and strategist and published author from beautiful Bristol who loves bright colours and writes about everything from amazing food to awesome females.

In our last talk Candi shared with me useful information about:

-How to write 3 books while working full time

-The importance of having an inclusive team and what we’re missing today

-Using an inclusive language

-Understanding the importance of accessibility

-Improving your process while letting go of your imperfections

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Leonardo Raymundo is a UX writer turning into a content strategist for Orca Pacific, an Amazon agency that delivers innovation to over 100 of the world’s leading brands.

This episode is for you want to learn how to write on Amazon.

Listen to this page if you want to learn about:

✅ How to do Amazon keyword research

✅ How to increase your Amazon store views by 20% with one simple step

✅ Creating branded content for you Amazon store

✅ How to generate more reviews on your Amazon store using copy

✅3 tips to optimize your Amazon store

Hans van Dam is the co-founder of Robocopy and the Conversational Academy. His goal is to develop and promote the role of the conversation designer. He develops curriculum for the Conversational Academy, lectures at multiple universities, and speaks often at conferences around the world.

Hans is a designer, educator, and strategist of chatbots and voice assistants. He helps develop chatbots that are more helpful, natural, and persuasive.

In this episode, we talk about Robocopy, Hans’ experience, and how chatbots are changing the virtual game on almost every platform.

Listen to this episode in order to learn

- Who can potentially become a conversation design?

- The skill set required to design great chatbot?

- Hans’ Conversational Academy.

See all of the different UX Writing Events of October 2020!

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Angela Kilduff is a UX writer at Stripe, where she designs products that help entrepreneurs around the world bring their ideas to life. Before Stripe, she worked in product design at Twitter and Facebook and did editorial content strategy for Mule Design and Huge. Outside of work, she likes to curl up with a good book and cook elaborate meals for friends.

Victoria Stanell is currently designing the economic infrastructure of the internet as a UX writer at Stripe. Previously, she’s put pen to pixel and shaped experiences at Uber, Medium, and Levi Strauss & Co. When she’s not thinking about content or strategy, you can find her cooking, painting, meditating, or enjoying other creative pursuits.

https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/ux-writer/2293358

In this episode, we chat about Victoria and Angela’s career journeys and how their experience could help UX writers—big time.

Listen to this episode and learn about:

— Victoria and Angela’s career

— What is Stripe?

— The huge hype/demand on writers and designers

— Challenges they face and the structure of their team

— What writers and designers can learn from processes at Stripe

Check out this eye-opening interview with Yuval Keshtcher, CEO and founder of the UX Writing Hub, and automation expert David Zisner. They chat about copywriting, no-code, and more.

Listen now if you want to learn:

-Why we should use no-code tools

-The power of no-code automation and copywriting

-What's in it for the copywriters

-Best practices to automate your processes

Kate Garner is an English teacher turned full-time UX writer at Coursera. She's also a language lover with experience in copywriting, editing, SEO, and creative content development. Her Master's of Communication in Technology degree helped turn her into quite the masterful communicator.

In this episode, we look at what UX writing at Coursera is all about. Kate shares her love of the product and why Coursera is such a great online learning platform. Listen to this episode to learn about:

— How writers and designers fit into Coursera's structure

— Overcoming the challenges of being a first time UX writer

— Her first-hand experience as a UX writer, what tools she uses specifically for UX writing, and other tools of interest that are available

— Coursera's procedures, strategy, and team structure

Harry Ashbridge is the content style guide author and senior writing lead at Monzo, an online bank founded in 2015. In this episode, we talk about Monzo Bank: what it is, how it works, and why it’s different from your old-school bank.