UX writing. Content design. Call it whatever you want: words and content are more important to good design and technology than ever. The words, phrases, and sentences you see in a user interface don't just appear there. They are written. Carefully crafted. This podcast is about the people who write those words, who design experiences with words, and who combine the power of language and technology.
Writers of Silicon Valley
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UX writing. Content design. Call it whatever you want: words and content are more important to good design and technology than ever. The words, phrases, and sentences you see in a user interface don't just appear there. They are written. Carefully crafted. This podcast is about the people who write those words, who design experiences with words, and who combine the power of language and technology.
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Recent Episodes
May 13, 2026
Content design's identity crisis (Oleksii Tkachenko)
Host [Host Name] interviews Oleksii Tkachenko, a seasoned professional, about content design's identity crisis and the profession's struggle between craft, automation, and evolving industry demands.
March 4, 2026
The poet inside AI (Adedayo Agarau)
<p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> 🎧 Start listening on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, subscribe on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> <strong>Get 20% off workshops and courses at UX Content Collective. For content designers who want to upgrade their thinking, check out <a href= "https://uxcontent.com/course-advanced-ux-content-for-product">Advanced UX Content for Product</a>. </strong></p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> Adedayo Agarau is a poet, a Stanford Wallace Stegner Fellow, and a content designer who has worked on AI search at Google and on Grok at XAI. He came to content design through web writing, a Nigerian fintech startup, a browser company, and an MFA at Iowa - not the path anyone would have predicted, and exactly the kind of path that produces someone worth listening to.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> We talk about what it actually means to design for a large language model: how personality gets built, why guide rails are a writing problem, why the distinction between an ideal response and just a response is what separates well-designed AI from the rest...and why content designers are the best ones to do this type of work.</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> <strong>What we talked about:</strong></p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]"> ✅ How Adedayo discovered poetry through a Nigerian social app <br /> ✅ What it was like contributing to AI-powered Google Search <br /> ✅ Designing voice, tone, and personality for Grok <br /> ✅ Why the X algorithm amplifies shock value and what that does to content designers <br /> ✅ Why AI hype creates both overclaiming and unhealthy skepticism <br /> ✅ What engineers actually want from content designers when building AI systems<br /> ✅ The case for treating data as content, not just content as data<br /> ✅ Why designing an AI agent is fundamentally the same as writing a character</p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> <strong>Where to find Adedayo:</strong></p> <ul> <li class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> <a href="https://adedayoagarau.com/">Website</a></li> <li class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adedayoagarau/">LinkedIn</a></li> <li class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> <a href= "https://github.com/adedayoagarau/content-design-prompt-library?tab=readme-ov-file"> Github</a></li> </ul> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> <strong>Get 20% off workshops and courses at UX Content Collective. For content designers who want to upgrade their thinking, check out <a href= "https://uxcontent.com/course-advanced-ux-content-for-product">Advanced UX Content for Product</a>. </strong></p> <p class= "font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"> </p>
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Why wearable tech will change content design (Carly Gray)
Content designer Carly Gray explores how wearable technology transforms content design by moving it off screens and into the physical world, raising new ethical challenges in this interview.
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