Hey there — I'm Andy!

I’m a content designer and writer, living and working in San Francisco.

I've worked on content design teams at companies like Microsoft, Cruise, Adobe and Facebook, solving language and information architecture problems on the web and in apps. Currently I’m the sole content designer at Glean.

In 2020, I published a book that I co-wrote with Michael Metts about UX writing called Writing is Designing: Words and the User Experience.

I like writing with em dashes, making zines, cats and Star Trek. I don’t like Coca-cola Freestyle machines, water chestnuts or fascism.

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📸 Photo by my talented friend and photographer Betsy King

📠 Here’s where you can find me on the web:

⁂ asterisms, my personal blog

Bluesky, the social network where I’m the most active

Mastodon, another fun one where I host my own server

LinkedIn, where I am probably yapping about content design

Are.na, with links to things I like

Signal, if you want to chat with me one-on-one (I’m @andyw.32)

My Gumroad shop, where I sell zines and stickers

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✏️ Pencils and analog tools:

The Erasable Podcast, my long-running biweekly-ish podcast about pencils and stationery

Woodclinched, my mostly defunct blog about the same

Plumbago Magazine, a zine I edit with contributor-submitted content about analog tools of creation

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⚠️ UX writing and content design:

Writing is Designing, a book I co-wrote about UX writing fundamentals

404 Magazine, a zine with UX writing and poetry and a sprinkle of bad AI poetry

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