As a technical writer, I sometimes do some UX writing for the software products I work on. I decided to look into UX writing as another service I could offer, so took the daily UX challenge at https://www.dailyuxwriting.com.
Here's the day 7 (of 15) challenge.
Scenario
A sports fan is at a wedding while their favourite team is playing against their arch-rivals. Their team scores.
Challenge
How would you, quickly, let the sports fan know about the latest play, the current score, and the key players? Write it.
Headline: 30 characters max
Body: 45 characters max
My answer
For this one, I considered what the user needs to know. Obviously, the score. But also who scored and when. The character count was so tight on this challenge, so I hope the game finished at 2-0 as there's no space for more scorers!
I added the kick-off time so that the user can figure out how long the game has been playing. For the heading, I went for the misspelled version of goal to try and recreate the sense of excitement and mimic football commentators.
Perhaps the goal scorers could be removed, but as a fantasy football player myself, I know how important that information can be. Hell, I'd want to know who got the assists too.
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