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title: How can product designers improve their writing? 
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  Practicing a skill is easier when you embed it in your routine and work. If you are a designer, you are probably comfortable sketching ideas because you do that all the time. So, why not improve your writing skills while designing?

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<p>Practicing a skill is easier when you embed it in your work routine.</p>

<p>If you are a designer, you are probably comfortable sketching ideas because you do that all the time. So, why not improve your writing skills while designing?</p>

<p>Here are 5 things you can do to start:</p>

<p><strong>1. Stop using “Lorem ipsum”</strong> as a filler and start writing the real thing. Besides practicing writing, you will improve the design quality because you will work with content much closer to the final copy.</p>

<p><strong>2. Start writing interfaces</strong> with Html and CSS. Once you get comfortable with it, <mark>the code editor and markup constraints will help you use actual info</mark> instead of “lorem ipsum.” Bonus: it will also help you to create better design handoffs and prototypes.</p>

<p><strong>3. Document design decisions.</strong> Writing your design decisions as arguments is going to help in two dimensions: <em>i)</em> improving your ability to organize ideas and explain them for team members and stakeholders; <em>ii)</em> improving deliverables quality, especially handoff artifacts for developers and product managers.</p>

<p><strong>4. Read non-design-related books and more design-related papers.</strong> This will help you to broaden your repertoire and improve your design discourse.</p>

<p><strong>5. Write your ideas.</strong> Besides sketching concepts, try to <mark>show them in context by writing a short story</mark> where a character is using the product.</p>