Senior UX Writer
CV
Work Experience
Adobe, 2022 - ongoing
Senior UX Writer, Monetization and Platform Experience team
March 2022 – ongoing
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Work with product and program teams to determine conceptual direction for digital experiences and integrated communication solutions.
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Write copy for in-app, ecommerce, and the Admin Console, including complex copy-driven workflows, notifications, landing pages, communications and contextual in-app messaging.
UW Medicine, 2013 - 2022
Content Strategist, UW Medicine Digital Experience Team
August 2019 – March 2022
Writing
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Plan, write, edit, test and improve copy for modal dialogues and chatbots, call-to-action buttons, notification and error messages, navigational and menu nomenclature, banner and alert messaging, captions, tooltips and all other web and app interfaces.
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Conceive, write, produce, edit and improve content for websites, modal flows, digital publications, campaign landing pages, emails and social media channels.
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Edit and review content produced by other team members for editorial style, grammar, voice, consistency, readability and adherence to content strategy and standards.
Strategy
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Work with UX designers, product and marketing managers, stakeholders, developers, and web operations team to continually iterate, analyze and improve content and UX.
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Assess client requests for updates and changes. Recommend components and content flow (including modal dialogues), page design and CTA button placement/function.
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Partner with the UX designer to redesign site components, maintaining a user-focused approach that follows brand and style guidelines.
Research and development
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Evaluate competitive and emerging approaches to identify best practices and encourage innovation.
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Partner with the UX designer to analyze qualitative and quantitative user research to inform content strategies, including journey mapping, site analytics, personas, user testing, focus groups, A/B testing, and business analysis to drive improvements.
Analysis
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Conduct quantitative and qualitative audits to identify redundant, outdated, and trivial content.
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Evaluate quantitative and qualitative data to inform content design decisions and information flow.
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Identify product, content and interface issues and work with stakeholders to resolve.
Content marketing and web writer, UW Medicine Strategic Marketing & Communications
October 2013 - August 2019
Storytelling
• Conceptualize and write consumer health articles, news and feature stories that engage consumers.
• Work closely with UW Medicine clinicians, therapists and dietitians and also patients.
* Create emotionally powerful stories and copy for content marketing campaigns and social media channels.
• Shepherd content through medical and stakeholder review, editing and production process.
Content development
• Develop, write and edit content for website, digital marketing assets, campaigns and presentations.
• Work with multiple stakeholders to identify content needs and develop compelling content.
• Edit and review content produced by other team members.
HowToMedia, Inc. (startup), 2006 - 2013
Editor-in-Chief, February 2009 - October 2013
Senior Writer and Editor, April 2006 - February 2009
HowToMedia, Flagship website: InnerBody.com, April, 2006 – September 2013
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Work with designer, product manager and developers to continually iterate, analyze and improve content and UX.
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Research, plan, develop and create content.
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Organize, coordinate and lead editorial team in implementing content strategy.
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Test new Drupal releases on beta site and document UX issues for developer.
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Develop and maintain content and site infrastructure on Drupal content management system.
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Write and edit articles, social media posts, headlines, site infrastructure content, video scripts, survey questions and corporate communications.
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Optimize editorial content using Google webmaster tools, Google Analytics.
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Research and report on acquisition targets and areas of new content development.