20 per cent of humans are on neurodiversity’s spectrum, and that’s a cautious number. Many of these folks, or anyone else for that matter, do not even know why their life experience is so exhausting, leaving them anxious or depressed—online and offline. — But we can change that by making words and visuals, structures and flows more and more inclusive by design —for all the people who use it. Anxiety makes using devices harder

How to gain a clear advantage in the first step of candidate selection — Since you have read the title and the intro you already might have more than a hunch where this is going. The inspiration for this article existed as a mere spark during my own job search. …

As a UX professional, I analyse almost every kind of experience I come across. As a vegan foodie, I love how food looks, tastes, smells and makes me feel. And as a person suffering from loss of taste and smell due to long-covid effects—I feel robbed of joy. — I caught Covid-19 exactly 14 weeks ago. After three weeks of crippling fatigue and body pains, along with brain fog that made me lose my words in mid-sentence while speaking, and five weeks of a horrible cough that only water and air at sea could cure, I still have not…

Ok, ok, two other factors played into my months of silence here, Covid-19 and my new role at wefox, but these influences were minor in comparison to what Medium itself changed to forever change my writing on here. — Medium as a platform has been developing a lot, that is nothing new, and many new features have been labelled as negative. Further, the complaints hint at the reading experience in general, Medium’s information architecture for menus and how articles are saved for later or in lists. …

As a UX content architect, how could I not nerd out about the words The Riddler uses to lead The Batman to answers? Or does he lead him to more riddles? His nifty content modelling style definitely get him hired our guild. Spoilers ahead! Lying, still. A murder. Pretty straightforward riddle: the…

All the inspirational discourse out there – but who has got the time to be on top of everything that’s published? — Every month, I will be sharing what I am taking in as an active member of our UX community, ranging from books and magazines, podcasts and of course webinars and meetups. This month was a little tricky since I was hunting for a job. But still, there was a little…

Andrew Astleford and Katrin come up with questions and answers. Pretty straightforward, but let’s see what happens! — Q1 — What’s one thing you wish you knew before you started in UX writing? K: OK, one amazing thing I did not realize at first: that the UX writing community is a helpful and supportive place. You can be a mentee and a mentor and thrive. Remote, new work, covid-19 changed everything and so a world was opening up to me virtually. Do you…

Andrew and Katrin come up with questions and answers. Pretty straightforward, but let’s see what happens! — Q1 — Professional highlight of 2021: Andrew: I changed jobs! I started as a UX content strategist at RingCentral in June. If you go through multiple interview processes and become comfortable in a new position, celebrate those achievements. There’s so much hard work and reinvention involved.

Shiny and new: the 2021 Design Tools Survey was just published and is showing a UX writer like me that we still have ground to cover to make ourselves visible to others. Improving designer to writer ratios, one by one. —