The Interface

Recently, Active Voice CEO Sara Wachter-Boettcher published an article in which she made a bold claim about designers: your company is gaslighting you. Designers might know this feeling well. Content designers especially. Being told that you need to do more. Educate more. Prove your "worth" more. But Wachter-Boettcher says...no.  "It's a manipulative technique that makes designers question their o...

Come to the Button conference next month and learn new skills, hear from other content designers, and contribute to the future of our industry! Get $100 off with UXCC100. This audio is a recording of a LinkedIn Live event we held on Tuesday, September 26 with Kristina Halvorson. As we head into the Button Conference next month, we discuss: The skills content designers need to survive in 2024 How t...

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OFFER: Get 15% off Strategic Content Design by Erica Jorgensen through July 31! Just use UXCONTENT15 at checkout. Erica Jorgensen is one of the most accomplished content designers in our industry. A senior content design manager at Microsoft and now at Chewy, Erica wrote a book that comes with a key message: you should be more strategic with your content design work. Want to create impact and infl...

Understanding AI in the context of content design and UX writing has been a challenge. Is it helping us? Hurting us? Something else? We held a LinkedIn Live conversation with Chelsea Larsson, Head of Experience Design and Content Design at Expedia (Partnerships) to understand AI in the context of our profession. The takeaway? Content designers are natural partners for AI models— and by embracing t...

Shannon Leahy, Senior Experience Content Strategy Manager at Adobe, joins Patrick for a live podcast recording to   discuss the current job market and tips for content designers navigating the search.   Follow Shannon on LinkedIn .   Get your custom salary and industry report.  

Join the waitlist for Connie Wu's leadership course: https://uxcontent.com/waitlist-leadership-course/ This episode is a recording of a LinkedIn Live event held Wednesday, April 13. Join Patrick Stafford and Connie Wu (TikTok, Meta, Google) as they discuss the challenges of content design leadership, what skills content design leaders need to develop, and how to move from senior to leader. It's a...

The Interface is a monthly, can't-miss group chat for everything happening in content design and UX writing. The Interface has industry updates, deep conversations, and other helpful resources. Today, we're all about jobs. Jobs jobs jobs. And more jobs. We look at some of the best content design jobs on the market, and discuss what the "market" even is for content design roles.  Featuring Patrick...

The Interface is a monthly, can't-miss group chat for everything happening in content design and UX writing. The Interface has industry updates, deep conversations, and other helpful resources. Today we put ChatGPT to the test. Can it write recipes? Strings? Will it take our jobs and dominate us as overlords? Will those among us who never bought smartphones and held on to their flip phones "for th...

Welcome to The Interface! A monthly, can't-miss chat with the UX Content Collective crew, and friends. The Button Conference was a great time in Seattle (and on your computer, if you attended remotely). Together we recap the conference, talk about our favourite sessions, and speak on what we want to see next year. Connect with our guests: Carly Gray, Content Designer at Meta Reality Labs Twitter L...

Welcome to The Interface! A monthly, can't-miss chat with the UX Content Collective crew, and friends. Adobe acquired Figma for US $20 billion, roughly half cash, half stock. The news has put the tech industry, and the content design community, into a tailspin. Some are worried that this acquisition could mean an end to the free tier...arguably one of the biggest tools that put UX writers "in the...

Welcome to The Interface! A monthly, can't-miss chat with the UX Content Collective crew, and friends.  Do you need a content design portfolio? Do they stop disadvantaged people from getting jobs? What if you don't have time to make or update one...and do they really matter all that much? All that and more in today's episode.  Resources discussed: Scott Kubie's content.events UX Writer's Guide to...

Welcome to The Interface! A monthly, can't-miss chat with the UX Content Collective crew, and friends. First up: a decade-long bull run is coming to an end in tech with plenty of layoffs. But is it hitting UX writers? And if it does, how can you make sure your job is safe? The crew have a chat about what you can do to insulate yourself. Resources discussed in this episode: Button Conference Figjam...