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Welcome to issue #94 (August 26th, 2020). Here’s what’s inside:
- Podcast with the author of Monzo’s style guide
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- Interface lessons from LEGO bricks 🧱
- UX writing and digital addiction 👨💻
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🎙️ Harry Ashbridge is the style guide author and senior writing lead at Monzo, an online bank founded in 2015. He believes in the power of writing to measurably improve every aspect of a business — from top to bottom — and spends his days trying to prove it.
In this episode, we talked about Monzo Bank: what it is, how it works, and why it’s different from your old-school bank.
Listen to this episode to learn about:
- Finding and making opportunities as a UX writer
- Making sure people care about what you write
- The challenges and rewards of writing for FinTech
- Training personnel on a product
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🧱 Friend’s of the Hub know that we love LEGO, so we were pretty excited about this article. Find out what 52 different LEGO bricks can teach us about the design, layout, and organization of complex interfaces.
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
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👨💻 As part of his portfolio, Diego Cagara has a thorough case study about working remotely for the digital technology addiction app Reboot & Recover. The team he was on worked on research, voice & tone, and rewriting a questionnaire. Check it
out:
REBOOT AND RECOVER: A case study
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📆 Calendly is a tool for scheduling meetings and they’ve taken a different approach to their cookie confirmation message. First they get your attention with an unexpected headline, then they make you think more about trust and privacy issues.
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🎨 Last
week we had a mix up about who inspired our Webby Awards. So this week, meet Aya Shapir, content strategist and UX writer. Her site is straightforward and communicates her talents and services via quality copy.
https://ayashapir.com/services
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🗾 Microcopy lessons based on wayfinding in Tokyo from all the way back in 2016. That’s ancient history in our field, but the lessons are
still quite valuable. Don’t miss:
Finding your way as a UX writer
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We believe that content design and UX writing are not the same thing. As such, we were happy to see that Airbnb is hiring a UX writer for the first time (and not calling the position a content strategist).
Also, welcome Egypt to the job board 🇪🇬
As always:
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