Sweat the Small Stuff : The importance of page-level content and your style guide. I published this article in March. It addresses how thinking about essential issues in content design and adhering to a style guide helps ensure your content is both correct and consistent. ...
Continue reading ...From Google Ventures: 5 Rules For Writing Great Interface Copy is a good article that discusses 5 good things to keep in mind when writing UI copy. I like "Headlines and buttons are the pillars of our products. See, there's a good chance you’ve been writing product pillars this whole time, and did...
Continue reading ...A while back, I attended a writing workshop. It was mostly aimed at writing better in general. While most of the topics were points that I (and you) already know, I did take a way some worth from it. So, here are some ideas I took from the event, since they can benefit all of us writers, including t...
Continue reading ...As a follow-up to my last post, which addressed how to determine the level at which you are writing, I thought I’d give a few tips on how to write at the goal (8th Grade) reading level. Most of these points are ones you already know. So, you might consider this some form of refresher. However, I h...
Continue reading ...So, a few months ago, I came across this video of a 5-yr-old's perspective of some famous logos. It is, of course, very cute, and some logos she knows or mentally connects with person events. However, it got me thinking about how That video lead me to look at some other interesting videos on logo...
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