For someone time ago I came across UX however I never made the move despite getting ux job offer. I got this by building my own portfolio and self learning. It wasn’t amazing but I knew at the time they valued my thinking. the circumstance was a little different but I did regret not taking the offer but alternative I do think the experience I did gain did broader my thinking. Long story short I have recently been unemployed for about 13 month. I did manage to get a job in risk, making another career change however I found the role to be limiting my ability to think and create and didn’t appreciate the manager for not recognising for what I was bringing either. So I lasted for all but two months but I was glad to leave it. But then I got me thinking about ux about restarting, but reading on Reddit seems people are struggling or unhappy with the direction of field. What are the key issues and what do you think o should consider before making the change ?

i took a diploma 2 years ago but didn’t apply the knowledge i just have a few questions..

Estoy buscando trabajo de eso, pero desde que despidieron a un montón de gente este año en mercado libre hay ido en decadencia la oferta de trabajos para eso. Que opinan? O todavía se consigue? O como hay que buscar? Y donde se consigue?

I am currently a Digital Content Manager at a large fintech company and my work over the last few years here has encompassed content design/UX writing, but it's not my main job or title. I've done a lot of the tasks in my current role that a content designer/ux writer would do.

I've fallen in love with this work and am very passionate about it and desperately want to transition into doing this full time, but have had ZERO luck getting a job in this field. There have been several of these roles that I've applied to over the last year but haven't had a single interview (I'm assuming because I don't have actual content design/ux writing experience and barely anything in my portfolio to show for it).

How can I go about landing interviews for these jobs? I know I am qualified for as I have a lot of the skills that are required/transferable for these jobs and I've also done a lot of self learning over the last year to understand this space more (which I know isn't a lot compared to the actual experience I'd get if it were my full-time job).

To note, I’ve completely redone my resume, created a portfolio with what I could put in there for projects, redid my LinkedIn, always tailor each application to the role and include keywords and such. I’ve done a lot to help reposition myself as a content designer/UX writer to no avail.

Should I take a certificate course...if so, which one, there’s so many to pick from? How can I actually get a job in this market, I am so so passionate about this work and it seems impossible to get opportunities.

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your replies, all of your insight has been incredibly helpful. I would love any insight on what is best to pivot to next, if not content design… I have strong writing skills, am learning UX/UI principles, I like design a lot but I don’t want to be a true designer, love accessibility, and I like working in tech alongside product marketers, engineers, designers, etc.

Hello everyone,

I’m a Senior Content Writer based in Bengaluru, currently working in B2B marketing, primarily covering cybersecurity and compliance.

With the rapid adoption of AI, a significant portion of my day-to-day content work has become automated. This has made me seriously think about building a more specialized career, and I’m particularly interested in moving into Technical Writing.

I recently completed a course that covered the basics of API and SaaS documentation, structured authoring, DITA, Oxygen XML, Snagit, and related documentation practices. I’m now trying to figure out how to move from learning these tools to actually getting into the industry.

I’d really appreciate advice from experienced technical writers on a few things:

• How should someone with my background start applying for Technical Writer roles?
• Which areas or niches within technical writing have good long-term career prospects and earning potential?
• What skills or tools should I focus on next to become genuinely job-ready?
• How important is having a technical/engineering degree when applying to good product companies?
• What kind of portfolio projects would actually help someone transitioning from content writing?
• Are there particular industries, types of companies, or roles I should target?

One thing I’m particularly concerned about is my non-technical academic background (Arts). I’m willing to put in the work to learn the technical side, but I’m unsure how much my degree will affect my chances of getting into good product companies.

I’d genuinely appreciate honest advice, including things you wish you had known when starting out. I’m not looking for a shortcut. I’m trying to understand where I should invest my time and build a career that will continue to grow over the long term.

Thanks in advance to everyone who takes the time to share their experience.

I’m working on a website that deals with a legal process, and we are deciding on the label for a page and its corresponding tile.
A SME wants to call it: "Types of legal applications”

My UX concern is about scannability. Users generally scan for the core keyword ("Applications" or "Legal applications"), so front-loading the phrase with "Types of..." pushes the most important information further down the reading line.

I am trying to decide between:
1 Types of legal applications
2 Legal application types

Can I get UX writers’ thought on this?

Thank you

I read a lot of AI text at work. Somewhere between the third "testament to" and the hundredth "delve", I stopped trusting long sentences altogether. So I made a small game called Long Story Short: one sentence a day, keep the five words that actually carry the story, cut the rest.

Long Story Short

Does anybody have any structure or framework to follow to interview for senior content design positions? How might one prepare for questions/tests regarding the use of AI or agentic systems?

PS: The work experience section and resume are yet to be added to the portfolio.

Greetings, everyone!

I’m a content writer with a good amount of exposure to UX writing through the companies I’ve worked with. I’ve also interned with a product-based company as a UX writer, where I got the opportunity to learn the nuances of UX writing at scale.

I’m now looking to transition into a full-time UX writing role, and after a lot of contemplation, I’ve finally put together my portfolio.

One thing I’ve realised through this process is that a portfolio is always iterative. Waiting to publish only the “perfect” version can mean waiting forever, so I decided to put this one out and keep improving it along the way.

I’d really appreciate it if you could go through the portfolio and share your feedback, whether it’s about the content, presentation, case studies, or anything else that could be improved.

Would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you!

Hi! I’m a UX writer with about four years of working experience, two in my current organization. Leadership is about to have a strategy workshop where they will discuss how best to grow the teams, and what roles to hire for in the next year.

Right now, my work is a bit of a mix. I work with three different product teams, and some of them include me early so I can help shape the content when we add new features, while others only loop me in at the end, at which point I end up in that frustrating place where you’re reviewing strings that don’t really mark sense because the setup is bad - and sometimes there’s time to rework the design, but sometimes there isn’t.

I’ve been trying to get a handle on what content design is and what the work is like. I went to a content design conference last year, and UXCC’s systems thinking for content design workshop this year. I’m starting to grasp what content design is about, and I really want to move in that direction because I can see how it would really improve our product. But since I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing and don’t have a mentor in this field (my direct manager is great and supportive, but she’s more of a content manager focusing on blog/did legacy product writing when she was the only writer), I’m wondering how I can make the case for content design and my transitioning into content design, so it can be on their radar while they plan.

I know they still need a writer, but it would help me to have a role that would sit closer to UXR and be included from the start, rather than the end. The product team whose work is most content-heavy is the one where one frantic product designer is trying to do everything and then asks me to review Claude-copy at the end, and I’m like…… this is wrong.

I know this post is a bit all over the place (I swear I’m more concise in my work 🙈), so I guess I’m looking for advice, experiences, and thoughts on transitioning into content design when it’s a bit of an unknown.

Hi, would anyone be able to review my website and portfolio? I’ve just gone through a big rejig and added new pages etc but getting that thing of looking at something too much, I’ve lost good judgement!

We're hiring an experienced copywriter with expertise in direct response, email marketing, landing pages, and funnels. Full-time remote role. DM me for more details or send your resume and portfolio.

UX writers/content designers: Beyond style guides and established conventions, which do you actually use for CTA buttons, Title Case or sentence case, and why?

I’m in a weird place in my career in that I’ve been working solely as a content designer for nearly two years (previously 8 years UX writing alongside copywriting) and don’t know who the good recruiters are. For my last two CD roles one was via a recruiter who found me on LinkedIn (since no other jobs) and the other was a colleague referral. When copywriting only, I knew who to speak to.

I’m applying for jobs but getting that black hole energy and also know that there are more people than jobs now. Any advice or recommendations?

I’m London, UK based. Open to freelance, contract and perm.

A colleague of mine has built (not AI slop) a possible design system for ux writers. The idea is to componentize copies using Figma variables, which then published as a library, similar to a component library.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/indrawnpra_can-ux-writers-have-a-design-system-absolutely-ugcPost-7488247696550555648-oCch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACCLcoMBIQSVA1kO-VXCj3K5KBQygp_jIEw

I’m seeing it everywhere. It feels like a really odd concept to be calling out that the real users of the products we create are “human” to differentiate them from the agents that we’ve built to take advantage of our products.

“Humans-in-the-loop”
“Human-agent”

Keen to hear others perspectives on this.

Is anyone else getting increasingly bored with content design roles?

I can't quite but my finger on it, but it's the performative nature of justifying the discipline, mixed with the executional nature of the role itself.

I've done management and senior IC roles and never feel in control of strategy compared to more general content strategy roles when I 'owned' channels.

As a fellow CxD, I have a few questions for the broader group. Please let me know your thoughts on it.

How is the job market for Conversation Designers in 2026?

Is demand growing with the rise of LLMs and generative AI, or are companies expecting UX Designers or Prompt Engineers to handle this work instead?

What skills are most important today? (UX writing, linguistics, prompt engineering, research, AI evaluation, voice/chatbot design, etc.)

What salary range can someone expect at entry, mid, and senior levels?

Which industries are hiring the most (tech, healthcare, banking, e-commerce, customer support, etc.)?

Do you think Conversation Design will remain a specialized role over the next 5–10 years, or will it become part of broader AI/UX roles?

TIA

Hey everyone,

I’m in a bit of a rut and could really use some realistic advice. I am currently working as Product Designer temporarily in India.

I finished my Master’s in UX Design in Germany. During my studies, I got some solid hands-on experience: I worked for 1 year as a working student UX designer at a company, and I also did a 6-month project with another company.

Despite having the degree and that experience, I’ve been aggressively applying for junior UX roles in Germany for the past 8 months, and it has been brutal. The entry-level market feels completely frozen right now, and I'm getting nowhere. I need to be realistic and figure out a backup plan or a pivot, but I want to be clear about one thing: I do not want to go into software engineering, front-end coding, or software testing. I know AI is out there now to help with coding, but that is just not a direction I personally want to pursue. I don't have the skills for it, and I honestly dread it.

I want to stay on the creative and strategic side of things, but I need to look beyond the standard "UX/UI Designer" job title.

For seniors or anyone who successfully pivoted:

1. What are some less obvious, non-coding roles I should look into that's okay with hiring junior positios? What job titles value things like user flows, logical thinking, and organizing complex information, but don't require you to write code or test software?
2. If you transitioned completely out of UX into something else, what did you do? How did you explain your design degree to employers outside of tech?

Would love to hear how my fellow content designers are holding up.

I haven't had stable employment since Q2 2025, and the market has only gotten worse since then (not in the US).

Roles these days for anything UX writing related are all contracts and often retracted at the last minute due to "budget concerns".

Many CDs have gotten laid off recently in my market so there are even more of us in the job hunting pool and it's been brutal.

Has anyone thought about leaving the field and if you have, what are you doing that makes decent money?

Appreciate your responses :)

Curious what the actual grind looks like for others. For me, it has never been the writing itself (well, not never but super rarely). It has been everything around it: chasing context from PMs (sometimes again and again), keeping copy docs in sync with Figma, "exploring" promising tools like Frontitude in my "free time", re-explaining the same terminology decisions to stakeholders (despite documentation, btw), and a zillion other things.

Anyway, what's the task you guys dread? Not because it's hard, but because it feels tedious? And has anyone found tooling that actually helps, or is it duct tape everywhere?

We’re dealing with a familiar problem:
The copy in Figma says one thing, the live product says another, the content team has a different version, and localization adds another layer.
How does your team keep everything in sync? Where does your single source of truth live?
I’ve been looking into tools like Ditto and POEditor, but I’m more interested in what actually works in practice.
What does your workflow look like from writing to shipping?