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Contributing Content to the UX Booth

Thanks for considering contributing content to our blog. On this page you can submit a guest post to be published here on UX Booth. Please fill out the necessary details in the submission form below, or scroll down to read further instructions.

Submit a Guest Post:

What we’re looking for

• Diversity — We love articles that relate usability to both common and uncommon things.
• Any and Every Voice — We’re looking for contributors from all walks of life, whether your an expert or a layman.
• Mini/Guest Usability Reviews — if you’ve got a site that you’d like to write about, don’t be shy!
• Well written Articles — Writing for the web is not writing a college textbook. While the content on UX Booth can be pretty dense, we’d like it to be accessible to everyone. See this problogger post on how to better write for our audience, and this traffikd post on 10 tips on effective guest article writing.
• Tutorials — most people coming to the UX Booth would like to walk away with some new piece of knowledge or a new perspective they can apply to their own work. Help them with tutorials.
• Resources — If you’ve found a resource that you’d like to share that makes your life easier, we’ve got a form for that.
• Interviews/Documentary Posts — If you can grab the time and attention of a prominent figure in our community or have a story to share from a UX conference, we’d love to hear it.

What we’re not looking for

• Single Product Reviews — We’ve believe that product reviews that focus on any one product come off as a long-winded advertisement. If you’re interested in reviewing a product, compare it to other products in its niche.
• Opinionated posts — Unless its related to a common community dispute, we would rather not serve as your soapbox.
• Highly-technical Posts — If you’re an expert writing for our audience, make sure that your post is geared towards readers with beginning-to-intermediate knowledge of your subject.

Preparing your content

If you have any questions as to whether or not your article will be deemed appropriate for our publication, don’t hesitate to contact us with your article pitch. Because of the volume of requests that we have had for guest posts, we cannot guarantee that every article submitted will be posted.

Once your article has been written according to the above criteria, you’ll want to:

1. Proofread — Before submitting, make sure to proofread your article. If you have any questions or have not received approval for your topic, don’t hesitate to contact us.
2. Format — Download our posting template and replace the default copy with your own. The template instructs you how to add elements such as headers, lists, and images.
3. Zip — Make sure to zip your article together, including all of your images and any other assets.
4. Ship — Use the above form to send your article in!

By submitting you acknowledge:

1. It is entirely up to the editorial staff of UX Booth to select articles for publication. We offer an article pitch form in case you want to test out an idea. Otherwise your article must be finished when submitting.
2. The article you submit is your original work and not published elsewhere. (Please credit all sources, assets, and use common sense.)
3. Your article may be edited prior to publishing.

If your article is accepted:

1. We’ll get in touch with you right away. Once your article is published, you’ll get $100 cold hard cash, an entry on our about page (with a custom profile, including links to your website, twitter, etc), and the good feeling that comes from contributing to the body of knowledge available to the UX community. We’ll let you know when your article is scheduled for publication.
2. You grant an exclusive, royalty-free license to the UX Panel to be the sole publisher of the article online. You may republish extracts – for example on your own site – however the article in its entirety should not appear elsewhere. You may also republish the article offline however you choose.
3. You consent to the full article, extracts, samples or examples from it appearing in other UX Panel sites, products and services.