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Level Up — 8 Quick Ways To Improve Your UX Writing
Starting guide for improving and learning about how good content can make a better user experience
UX writing fills the areas in your UI that assists your users use a product or helps them interact with it to fulfil their goals and objectives. UX writing has become a popular topic among designers recently as we are becoming more aware of its importance in creating better products.
UX writing can be used in a range of UI elements from the microcopy of your buttons, menu labels, input and error labels to the heavier text blocks like your terms and conditions pages, cookie messages and instruction areas.
In this post we’ll look at UX writing and how you can create better copy to improve the UX of your product.
1. Don’t reinvent the wheel
It can be tempting to do your own thing and come up with new phrases and break away from the “norm”. When it comes to UX writing however you don’t want to come up with something new, instead of using words and labels people will understand quickly such as “profile”, “checkout”, and “add to basket”. The idea is less cognitive load the better, you don’t want to confuse people or make them worried that their action will be wrong.
