Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Everybody Hurts: Content for Kindness
Synopsis
We all want interfaces that feel human—where the content is friendly and everything flows right along. But being human isn’t just about being breezy.
Every user who interacts with your site comes there with personal histories—with pain and problems, with past traumas or present crises. How can we take our users’ vulnerabilities, triggers, and touchy subjects into account when we don’t even know what they are? What would it mean to optimize not just for seamlessness, but for kindness? This talk will show you how clear intentions and compassionate communication can strengthen everything from form questions to headlines to site structures.
About Sara
Sara Wachter-Boettcher runs a content strategy consultancy based in Philadelphia. She is the editor in chief of A List Apart magazine and the author of Content Everywhere, a book about creating flexible, mobile-ready content. She also offers in-house workshops to clients like Trek Bicycles, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Harvard, and speaks at web conferences worldwide. Find her on Twitter @sara_ann_marie or at sarawb.com
Slides from Sara’s talk:
http://www.slideshare.net/nuxuk/everybody-hurts-content-for-kindness-by-sara-wachterboettcher-at-nux4
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