Can anyone give insight on being/becoming a UX Writer.? What courses did you take, landing your first role, etc.

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I’m not a UX Writer but I see a few routes; 1) functional, instructional design style writing which will send you down the usability path, 2) marketing-style writing more aligned to brand and experience, 3) then a third around persuasive copywriting which will send you down the conversion rate optimisation path. And they may blend too.

Worth considering how User Research, Usability Testing, A/B Testing, Content Strategy and SEO play a role.

Different books and courses for each. NN/g has helped me with content strat and the usability side of things while I got my persuasive toolkit from HFI and reading up Cialdini and the like.

As I said, I’m not a UX writer so can’t point to specific resources but you’ll need appreciation of broader UX to write effective copy.

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