Quentin Dietrich

Shopify merchants used to work for data insights. Now they can just ask in plain language. Behind the scenes, I went from designing a CLI to obsessing over AI entrypoints. Same goal — make the complex effortless. But damn, the definition of "effortless" has evolved lightyears.

Many design reviews don't go as planned. Missing context. Feedback on the wrong things.

"Signs Your Product Has Conceptual Debt: Your product introduces many concepts which are entirely unfamiliar to users, and have no analogies in other products they may have used." medium.com/all-things-pro…

🍾It’s today!!! It’s official! You can now pre-order my book 📕 If you lead product content folk in any capacity, I’ll help you understand how to help them do better work. abookapart.com/products/leadi…

Lead with Tempo is a conference exclusively created for UX writers & content designers who lead others or want to move into leadership. Hear from leaders like @amythibodeau, @candiwrites and @sara_ann_marie, and get hands-on workshop tuition too! leadwithtempo.com/conference

All the pretty pictures in the world won’t detract from your bad content.

Good documentation might just be the most important tool in your toolkit

It's just a week to go until our next panel event. Hear how our experts have influenced their orgs, aligned teams on content, and driven a content-first mindset eventbrite.co.uk/e/tempo-presen…

Hot take: stop having opinions about how other people participate in online meetings. Want your camera off? Fine. Need to take notes or Slack on the side? Go for it. Need to step away? Please do. We’re going on 2 years of this nonsense, it’s enough just to get through each day.

So I've been at @LatticeHQ for almost 2 months now, and I've really been digging the team rituals we have on the design team. It inspired me to write my first blog post in over 2 years: tech.lattice.com/article/design… I'd love to hear what rituals you all have too!

"If a predetermined, unchangeable character limit has been put on a form field that’s too short to explain clearly what the user needs to do, having a skilled UX writer on it will not save the usability." #actions-not-titles" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">workingincontent.com/resources/comp…

Only 48 hours until our first event with @sara_ann_marie @RebeccaEHales and @supergranular 🎉 Are you joining?

Content design leaders, the world’s been waiting for you — and so have we! Join a new community created just for you link.medium.com/lGPm1yo0Jgb

Lessons for creating content in a crisis (and for life): 🧘 Be flexible ❤️ Be kind 🤝 Build partnerships early 🪞 Know yourself 💃 Lead More #Confab2021 gold from from José Vejarano based on his experience of responding to Covid-19 as chief content strategist at the IRS.