Contributing Content to the UX Booth

Thanks for considering contributing content to our publication. We love working with new and seasoned writers, so check out our quick-and-dirty submission guidelines below. We’re excited to hear from you!

  1. Pitch it!

    UX Booth is always looking for insight from the user experience community. We’d love to hear your ideas, your site reviews, interviews, research, and how-tos (and so would our readers). Do not send us fully written articles; please discuss your ideas with us first in case we aren’t looking for what you’ve got in mind.

    Send us an email with your article pitch and we’ll let you know in no time. Please be as detailed as you can, making sure your idea fits in with what we typically publish.

  2. Write and Format it!

    If we accept your pitch:

    1. Write your article, based on what you’ve discussed with your editor.
    2. Consult our style guide to make sure it jibes with your article.
    3. Clearly note within your Word/Pages document where accompanying images should appear, labeled with their file names.
    4. Proofread and edit. Several times. Seriously.

  3. Send it!

    Zip your article (along with related assets, such as images) and send it our way using the form below. If accepted, you’ll get $100 when your article goes live.

    By submitting, you acknowledge that we can (and probably will) edit your material. We’ll add photos and captions if they’re missing. For more information on what happens after your work is published, look down below!

What to expect

Contact our editors with your article ideas, even if you think they’re not fully formed just yet. We don’t bite, and we don’t send heartless form letters.

As mentioned briefly above, if your article idea is accepted, you’ll work closely with our editors to ensure that your idea grows into the awesome work it should be. No article is perfect at first, which is important to keep in mind.

No major changes will be inflicted upon your article without your consent, but little ones might and probably will. We want you to keep your voice, but we also your audience to be able to read with ease.

If you do not provide images with your article, we will provide them ourselves, and probably make them a bit silly. Fair warning. When in doubt, we like to keep things amusing.

Legalese

It is important to note that if you are submitting an article to the UX Booth, it must be original, unpublished content. The article must not appear in any published form—personal, commercial, or otherwise. We sometimes make exceptions for authors of upcoming books who wish to publish excerpts, but typical article content must be otherwise unpublished.

If published, you grant an exclusive, royalty-free license to the UX Panel to be the sole publisher of the article online, unless previously and explicitly discussed with UX Booth officials. You may republish extracts—for example, on your own site—however, the article in its entirety must not appear elsewhere without the expressed consent of UX Booth. You consent to the full article, extracts, samples or examples from it appearing in other UX Panel sites, products, and services.

What we’ll need later

If we accept your article, be forewarned that our rabid editor may will be after you for a number of things:

  • A Gravatar-enabled email address (this is how we get your picture up with your article)
  • Your PayPal email address (you know, so we can pay you and all)
  • Your author’s bio (short, sweet, and to-the-point)
  • Related images, if there aren’t any included (they’re not necessary, but always a welcome touch)