Senior UX writer Axel Viersac on how to be the only writer on a product team.
Alex Viersac is part of the UX team at Talend, a company creating software for data analysts. As the only UX writer in the company, people often call him to “check the words” when he should have been involved much earlier.
Alex explains how he’s building relations, educating people about his role, and creating a content design system that can be used by both writers and non-writers.
Here’s what we talked about:
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Books recommended by Axel:
The business of UX writing by Yael Ben David
Leading content design by Rachel McConnell
The New Rhetoric: A treatise on argumentation by Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca