UX, UI, and Technical Writing for fun and profit

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Senior XD Writer

Show off your professional style in creating the in-product text and content for for a payment planning and tracking desktop product. Plan contentwork, design UI text with team input, and compose help text.  

Technology used: Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, Perforce, InQuira.

This is your chance if you are are excellent at crafting friendly and engaging text, with the ability to adapt to a pre-existing compositional style.  You must have creativity and mental flexibility, HTML/Dreamweaver/Perforce expertise, refined skills in technical writing or help topics, and the ability to get along with a variety of people

This is available for Californians or pre-Californians in the Mountain View or Woodland Hills areas.

[uxperiencesourcer]

First opportunity!  If you’re in Mountain View CA, want to move there, or know someone in the area, take a look at this:

I am looking for writers who can craft clear and engaging Help content for web, desktop, and mobile applications.Working with keysubject matter experts (product management, development, experience designers, and QA), you will leverage your innate ability to write clearly and concisely to help our customers successfully complete their tasks and feel smart, confident and productive.  You will independently plan and prioritize UI and help content necessary to deliver key functionality with high quality.  This assignment starts temporary, with a potential for permanent employment. 

This XD Writers/Editor position is for experts and mentors in user assistance and localization trends.  If you are an empathetic master on how people learn and the voice professionals use to communicate with customers in offerings, marketing, and support, you are just the sort of professional to work closely with SMEs in understanding key customer needs, setting content goals, and persevering until those goals are met.  Work closely with developers and QA, participating in an Agile development cycle and, for your own writing projects, lead the content-design process.  You will drive decisions, create schedules, and track issues.  Then you will test your creations, and your team’s, by performing content reviews, observing usability testing, and responding to live customer feedback. 

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A tale of UI and UX

A tale of UI and UX

A growing trend that I am greatly concerned about is the use of UI and UX synonymously. I am here to help spread the word that UX is not the same as UI. Let me break it down and get out of acronyms.

Let’s start with most tech acronyms by looking at the full name.

UI is an acronym for user interface. A user interface is a way for humans (or a user) to interface with computers and systems. A bit of…

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[uxperiencesourcer]

Hello, world!

I am a technical recruiter and coursing specialist looking for a variety of skill including (U)ser E(X)perience expertise.  UI is important as well, but this post is practically a mission statement for what kind of mindset the UX positions will demand; a firm yet flexible grasp on human motivations and behavior patterns that uses those trends to build a positive experience that builds repeat visitors, views and uses.  Follow me for exciting UX-based positions, ‘ask’ me to look at your CV, and watch this space for exciting new opportunities!