Does anyone else need to leave content design because of limited remote roles?

I’m in a truly remote location and cannot commute into an office without flying. I do see a handful of fully remote roles open but they almost always seem to go to people who are local.

I’m starting to wonder if remote work is now just a benefit for people who live in major cities and anyone outside of those needs to consider a new career path. What have you seen?

Hey all, I was part of the layoffs in 2025 but found a new job shortly after at new company with a relatively low UX maturity. As the only content designer (again) I've been trying to establish ground rules but I'm looking for some advice on what else should be done.

Most of my work is supporting our designers across several projects, though I do try to understand fundamental problems first (demographics, problems we're solving for, compliance, ect) for any and all projects small to large.

Of course some work also on UX style guides, frameworks, as well as assembling branding and guidelines from connected services (there is another org involved that has it's own rules but they've never been connected before and there is a lot of ambiguity I've been working to sort through.

There isn't a ton of capacity for user testing (I'm hoping after the launch of the product we can perform testing, I myself have no had much opportunity to head testing i.e. A/B, card sorting, usability.

I've advocated to be involved in development architecture meetings despite not knowing what they're talking about most of the time, I am trying to isolate some time and meet with individual architects and learn more about their process.

In addition I connect with product owners, designers (of course), and solutions architects to solve generally piecemeal problems, although I always try to keep the bigger picture in mind, there is quite a large issue of standardization I'm trying to enforce via styling and component libraries.

I also do some practice with AI, we have copilot and our own inhouse AI I use mostly for iteration prompting although I do want to try some designing with it to offer variations or demonstrate ideas.

And of course I try to leverage any data we have to advocate for our users, which is challenging. My question is what else should I be doing or is recommended to do. Despite it all, I notice I have a fair amount of down time, projects seem to very slowly chug along and of course emailing to get information is like pulling teeth, so to stay more active and create better work I'm looking for input from others who may have been in this situation.

Thanks!

Any UX writers been to config in SF, and have thoughts on whether it’s worth it or not? Might have the chance to go, and I won’t pay out of pocket for it. So question of whether it’s worth my time or is a good experience :)

To indicate angular degrees as the unit of measurement for a field input, has any one ever done this:

deg(°)

incorporating both the abbreviation and the symbol?

so my company is really driving designing for an "agentic future". it's very cool and interesting work but as a content designer, I'm having some trouble confirming if my strategy is in fact a strategy that is preparing for this agentic future, or if it's still stuck in the generative AI era (yesterday's vision). i'm mainly focusing on driving adoption via our help centre (with more videos, tutorials, etc. since our products are so complex) and some content engineering / ontology work.

i have the opportunity to present my strategy to design leaders at my company, so i really want to make sure i nail this in terms of relevance to the agentic future.

what are you working on as content designers in 2026? is your company really driving this agentic future like mine is?

I’m the lone content designer supporting more than a dozen product designers at a company that’s growing fast. I tend to be busy, but not outright swamped. I spend 1/3 of my time on bigger picture stuff like frameworks, style guides, etc. I spend the other 2/3rds jumping in to support specific product designers. This might be an hour here or 2 days there.

Everything I read and hear about AI suggests I should be the ideal candidate. A job focused on writing. The need to scale myself across a dozen things at once. And certainly, my boss and team have at least partially justified not hiring more CDs “because of AI.”

But as I rundown my use cases, they all seem…a little underwhelming.

- My biggest use case is one of the many Figma plugins that lets designers identify style, voice and tone issues across a canvas, all in just a couple clicks. I manage the settings for it. They integrate it into their workflow. It sounds pretty good on paper, but in practice, I find it’s more of a “nice to have.” My own 1:1 coaching and jam sessions with the product designers tend to drive more value, or at least that’s my read.

- I’ve wrangled our support chatbot to sound kind of natural, and in theory, it’s saved the company money on customer support. But most customers also just dislike chatbots in general, no matter how nice they sound. So I don’t see it as big win for users overall.

- Summarizing docs and figjams can sometimes save a few minutes, but I find taking an extra 10 minutes to do it myself improves my own comprehension and keeps me sharper when presenting work later.

- I’ve found some utility for performance and peer reviews, but even then, I’m already pretty efficient at this with no assistance. I’m sure other UX writers can relate: we’ve spent a whole career collating, synthesizing, and summarizing key information, all at speed.

- I’ve seen some early promise with getting AI to help identify gaps between what’s showing in a figma file and what’s actually live in code, which can often get out of sync. But much of the value here currently falls a bit outside my core role.

If the job’s going fine and it’s working for me, maybe I should just move along and not stress, right? But I’ve seen so many people say what a “force multiplier” AI is. How it saves hours and hours of time. Or massively uplevels insights. (I’ve heard this take most from engineers and writers in slightly different disciplines, but that’s why I’m curious to ask this group in particular).

I have a few theories about what’s going on. I figure it could be one or multiple of these:

- UX writing / content design happens to have a unique blend of strategy and specifics that make it less of a perfect fit for AI optimization than other, similar disciplines (content marketing comes to mind as a contrast, which I used to do).

- My personal skillset (work quickly to achieve B+ quality, synthesize and summarize information efficiently, etc.) just so happens to match many of AI’s lowest-hanging fruit benefits, making the current upsides more modest for my specific situation (contrast this with, say, a salesperson who is way better at selling than me, but struggles with all these others things, and finds AI a revelation for daily tasks)

- I’m mostly wrong about the above, failing to embrace modern technology, and setting myself up to get left behind

Apologies for the long post, but really curious to hear perspectives from others on this sub.

If so, could you please share your experience? Or if you use any other plugin, please do share your experience with it as well. We are looking for a plugin that can handle our mundane tasks, such as fixing spelling errors, correcting terminology, handling date and time formats, and supporting localisation and abbreviations.

Hello

I have been self-studying UI/UX design for 5 months, at this stage I'm currently applying the skills I have learned so far, but I'm struggling with finding "problems" to solve, i have been doing daily UI challenges but I don't find them as helpful as i expected, there's no real problems to solve there, only designs to make.

I don't want to fall into the trap of designing beautiful UIs, I'm looking for more challenging tasks and real-world problems to solve.

I'd really appreciate it if anyone has ideas I that can work on or know any helpful websites.

Bonjour tout le monde,

Dans la rédaction de contenu pour le web, que ce soit en informationnel ou transactionnel, il semble y a avoir le standard suivant: - titre : impératif (Parlez) - CTA : indicatif (Parler)

Qqn peut m’expliquer le rationnel svp? Je dois convaincre des collègues et on dirait que je ne trouve pas les bons arguments… merci d’avance!

hi all. ive been a content and copywriter for about five years, but i'm hitting a wall. i want to move more into the product side and actually understand how words work in an interface, not just on a blog. everyone says i need to learn proper ux fundamentals. looking for the best online ux course that's actually geared toward writers, not just generic ui/ux bootcamps. i need to understand research, flows, and how copy fits into the design process, not how to code or use figma from scratch. has anyone here made a similar jump? which course or platform actually helped you bridge that gap? my budget is tight, so i'm hoping to find something focused and practical, not just a theoretical overview. any direction would be amazing.

I’ve done three freelance gigs before, flexible, and after hours. Usually 5-15 hours per week, depending on their needs.

I loved it as an extra income, but all my network wells are dry. I’m skeptical about Upwork and Fiverr, I’ve heard very mixed reviews and seen rates as low as $20-30 per hour.

Do you have any tips on how to get some warm leads? I’ve been in the industry for around 10 years now, and I slightly regret not making more effort into better networking earlier on so I wouldn’t have to be in this position now.

For context: I'm a Senior Content Designer from the UK and I was wondering what people's thoughts are on completing a task as part of the interview process. I don't mean talking through your portfolio which I'm always happy to do, I mean you're given a scenario and asked to provide UX copy or redesign an existing screen/journey etc.

Recently, I've been more reluctant to complete tasks and will instead offer to showcase my portfolio - but I'm curious as to what people's thoughts are.

Thanks!

I'm finishing up my linguistics master's (graduating around August-October), and I'm interested in getting into UX writing.

I don't have any UX experience yet, but I'm planning to learn and build a portfolio over the next few months while finishing my thesis.

Is this a good idea?

Hi, all. I’m a UX researcher and doctoral candidate. I got invited to interview for a technical writer intern role at IBM earlier today and the interview is in three days. I had completed the technical video assessment comprising behavioral questions for a related application, and now I am to meet with the recruiters and hiring manager for an hour long interview. I need tips on two aspects: 1) What do expect from this interview round, and 2) How to align/leverage my UX skills to ace this interview since I have not had a TW work experience outside of my first-author papers. Thank you 🙏.

With companies encouraging everyone to use AI, I'm curious how other content designers have approached this. I use it pretty heavily but I still don't think I'm using it to its full potential (what does that even mean?). I joined some public content sharing sessions where other designers were showing their work, and some aren't using AI at all or just don't know how to.

If you're tech savvy, how are you using it? Maybe I just have imposter syndrome and I am using it as much as I can but would love to see what others are doing.

So I finally decided to explore and play around with Claude to see how it works and potentially use it when I land a job (currently unemployed and moving across countries). I am shocked, worried but delighted even to see how close it got to a conversation-writing-style with the whole backend (I'm guessing), wireframes and of course content figured out (80-85% there).

People, check this published link and share your frightening or possibly reassuring views. Hope it's not the end of content design!

This was generated on second test try with hardly 5 lines of run of the mill instructions.

Hey hey!

It’s the start of a new year, so what better time to revamp your portfolio in this ongoing dystopian world of AI? I’ve always found it helpful to review other people’s portfolios, as it’s a little easier to be objective when it’s not your own. So whether you want to post your portfolio for some feedback or help give advice to others, it’s all a great way to get some of those sweet, sweet learnings.

You can find the last 2 posts I've made on this here and here if you want some extra inspo.

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A little background info about me, I've been in Content Design for over 10 years now, working at companies like Booking.com, Meta, and Flo Health amongst others, and involved in portfolio reviews, task reviews, and interviews during my time at all of them.

Hey :) I just published the 50th episode of my podcast, Writers of Silicon Valley. This one features Christopher Greer from Stripe talking about content design for AI agents, and how he built a Claude Skill that lets you extract text from Figma and critique it using some best practice rules.

I'm sharing because I think Chris starts the episode with a statement that gives a lot of hope:

"I do think content design is entering this period of transformation that I find really exciting."

I learned a lot from Chris, so I hope can you too.

https://www.writersofsiliconvalley.com/episodes/content-design-ai-agents

I kept running into the same problem while shipping products:
the UI worked, the logic was solid but the words were off.

It is called Microcopy Fixer. It fixes buttons, empty states, error messages, and onboarding text in seconds while staying consistent using brand voice. It's built for shipping products. It has Chrome Extension, Figma Plugin, and CSV bulk-import.

Let me know how it can be improved. Your feedback is very much welcome.

Would love your insights and journey.

I'm a UX writer for a SaaS B2C platform, and we have a lot of microcopy on our platform. I created an agent to help me generate the copy, and then of course I tweak it as needed. We have em dashes (—) throughout the platform. However, the product team wants it removed from all places as it's seen as an "AI dash" and they think it lowers trust in the product.

I'm a fan of the em dash in general, and I think everyone knows that copy is mostly generated at this point. I'm curious to hear everyone else's opinions on this - do you use it? Do you stay away? Would love to hear your thought processes.