Craig Wright is an experienced technical writer based in Chesterfield, UK. He hates writing about himself in the third person, so I shall stop now.
Always interested in new content writing opportunities. Remote working preferred.
In this series of blog posts, I'm exploring the world of UX writing by completing the Daily UX challenges set by https://www.dailyuxwriting.com.
This post covers the challenge for Day #3.
The user is trying to sign in to their account and has entered an incorrect email address.
Tell the user to enter the right email.
Text:
Check for typo or use other address.
This one was tight with the character count. I wanted to try and account for two possible reasons for the error:
As the character limit is strict, I focused on what the user needs to do to fix the problem - either correct a mistake or use a different address. I'm not sold on using the word 'typo', but I don't think I had enough characters to allow for mistake.
In an ideal world, I'd want the message to be more descriptive, but it was difficult with so few characters.
Do you need a UX writer for your project? I'd love to hear from you. I've worked in software teams for most of my career as a technical writer and have trained as a content designer and copywriter too. I know about user journeys, work flows, and user-centred content. Microcopy, long form content, I can do it all.
Craig Wright is an experienced technical writer based in Chesterfield, UK. He hates writing about himself in the third person, so I shall stop now.
Always interested in new content writing opportunities. Remote working preferred.
Craig Wright is an experienced technical writer based in Chesterfield, UK. He hates writing about himself in the third person, so I shall stop now.
Always interested in new content writing opportunities. Remote working preferred.
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