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UX writing exercise

Transactional email and SMS

Six concise messages shaped around urgency, apology, reassurance and the limits of each channel.

  • Email
  • SMS
  • Service communication
Transactional email and SMS writing examples

Context

A postgraduate exercise in writing for real constraints across email and SMS.

Approach

The three emails covered a missed deadline, a hiring task and lost shoes. The three text messages covered a bank card, an identity-document appointment and help numbers in France. I adjusted formality, detail and emotional tone for each relationship and channel.

Learning

Apologies need a solution, encouragement needs clarity and short messages still need enough context to be trusted.