🔌 According to a recent survey, nearly 80% of writers in tech are using Figma. Love it or hate it, why not improve the experience with some handy plug-ins? Copy suggestions, spelling, searching, and more—if you can think of it, there’s a plug-in for it. (4 min read)
🦸 What separates good UX writers from great ones? This article has lots of interesting ideas about challenging briefs, pushing back against stakeholders, and more. (4 min read)
🏄 Continuing with the theme, the article also takes on some of our preconceived UX notions and assumptions, like the importance of usability and making users wait. (7min read)
Interesting use of American film ratings for GIFs in Slack workspace settings (it’s the system Giphy uses). For Americans, it communicates instantly. But since most countries have their own rating systems, will non-Americans easily understand these?
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UPSKILL: LIVE EVENTS & MORE 🎓
UX writing isn’t just an extrovert’s game. This event will cover some of the advantages of having, or being, an introvert on the team.
The Wordle honeymoon is over. But if you’re itching for a new challenge, try Semantle, where you’ll guess words based on their semantic similarity. Harder than it sounds!
