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Content Designer✍🏼UX Writer✏️Content Strategist🧠Video Maker📽Lover of commas & keyframes

Ask me anything (about when UX writers work on copy): ❓ Have questions? I'll answer them! If you want to know more about #UXWriting#ContentDesign#ContentStrategy, career transitions, or anything else, send me your questions. I'll respond in a post like this. You can leave questions as comments below, or you can message me. I hope this project helps anyone who's curious about the field. If you want to know more about something, there's a good chance other people have similar thoughts. Hope to hear from you! 😄 *** Q: Do UX writers just work on copy before the launch of a product or do they work even after the product has been launched? A: In a perfect world, both! Most of my work has been on designs that iterate on an existing product. Things constantly evolve. There's never a shortage of tasks for sure. After something is shipped, you learn what works well and what doesn't. Then you solve problems. Other writers may have different experiences, but it's rare a major product goes untouched after it is presented to the world. Pace of life depends on the company and the structure of a UX team. But it's not uncommon to see a minimum viable product released, and then design work continues on the next version. Then more design work follows that version. And so on. The cycle continues, driven by feedback from customers and business goals. (Of course, improving on an initial launch doesn't always happen, and that leads to its own issues.) Designs are always open to change. Just because something is "finished" doesn't mean it will never be revisited. (Thanks to Nancy Amandi for the question!)

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Andrew Astleford

Content Designer✍🏼UX Writer✏️Content Strategist🧠Video Maker📽Lover of commas & keyframes

2y

See the previous posts 👇 1 thing I wish I knew before starting in UX writing: https://bit.ly/3mNZx5O Differences and similarities between writing for B2B clients and UX writing: https://bit.ly/31ocrz7 Reaching out to companies to get UX writing experience: https://bit.ly/3BUSVYb UX writing course recs: https://bit.ly/2XesNIL UX writing hacks: https://bit.ly/3mWeKAo Storytelling in UX writing: https://bit.ly/3j2YQTZ Gaining experience as a UX writer: https://bit.ly/3a1mV8x UX writing voices to follow: https://bit.ly/3iqzzT7 Rebranding to break into UX writing: https://bit.ly/3ioUar4 Nontraditional entrances into UX writing: https://bit.ly/2ZnCuVX

Nancy Amandi

Data Engineer | Analytics Engineer | Data Technical Writer

2y

Wow. Thanks so much for the clarifications

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