UX Writing Weekly #173

To all of our Ukrainian friends, colleagues, students, alumni, and community members: your fortitude is an inspiration to the free world. Be strong—stay safe. 🙏🌻🇺🇦

WHAT’S INSIDE ✍

Issue #173 (Feb 28th, 2022)

#StandWithUkraine
Articles from our Ukrainian friends and colleagues
How to support

ARTICLES 📰

⬜ In 2019, Kat Prokhorenko, a talented UX writer from Kyiv, wrote a piece for our blog: a case study about the impact of a copy and design change.

Lots of whitespace on the product homepage isn’t always a good idea

Kat is currently looking for work, as well.

📄 Valeriia Panina is a UX writer and designer and a UX Writing Academy alumna. We were happy to see her articles published in Smashing Magazine.

Copy Docs: Make Your Microcopy Full and Consistent, and Maintain It

🇺🇦 Thoughts about how the war in Ukraine might impact social networks, cybersecurity, and more.

How the Ukrainian war will impact UX design

MICROCOPY BITE 💬

PILLARS OF COMMUNITY 🏛

Join the conversations below:

UPSKILL: LIVE EVENTS & MORE 📚

UX Salon Words: a 3-day online conference

Derek Kedziora is the solo content designer at Hubs in Amsterdam and has led Wix’s UX writing team in Kyiv. He’ll be speaking at UX Salon WORDS about transitioning from leading a team to flying solo. (Mar 7–9)

Use our coupon code for a 10% discount: UXWritingHub10

Podcast:

Noah Fulton Beale is a musician, former UX Writing Academy mentor, and a lead UX writer at Preply, leading teams in Barcelona and Kyiv. He sat down with Yuval for a jam session a while back.

A UX writing jam session with Noah Fulton Beale, Lead UX Writer @ Preply

JOBS 👔

Work with a wonderful team at Cocohub.ai as a Content Specialist in Tel Aviv.

Dialpad is looking for a senior content designer (remote, USA time zones)