Widows, Orphans & Runts | UX Writing Quick Tips 1

Episode 1 of the UX Writing Quick Tips series. Here we'll look at UX content as a visual element, just like UI designers do. We'll look at 3 typography issues and how to fix them as a UX writer.

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[MichaelMilton]

This is not something I had ever thought about until I published a book. These exact issues come up in formatting. Especially in formatting for paperback. Nobody wants to have a single word (runt) on an otherwise blank page, so the same work arounds apply. I had to do a bit of rewording or finding places to add paragraph breaks. Text needs to "Look right" as much as it needs to "sound right".

[bbiananda]

i'm a ux writer with no linguistic background. this video is really cool, never thought that there are terms called widow, runt and orphan. thank you for sharing, andy looking forward to your next video

[Sha-Ne-Ru]

Looking forward to more Quick Tips videos ^_^

[Memesqueen]

❤ I'm a graphic designer, your videos are really helpful! I hope you can do more videos about the common text flow problems.