Sophie Tahran is the Head of UX Writing at Figma, where she’s working on making design accessible for everyone.
In past lives, she founded UX Writing practices at The New Yorker, Condé Nast, and InVision, and wore many hats in the early days of Lyft. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and dog.
Speaking
Charlottesville Design Week
Charlottesville, April 2025
Design Matters
Copenhagen, October 2024
Copenhagen, September 2023
Beyond Tellerrand
Düsseldorf, Germany, May 2024
Button Leadership Program
Online, October 2023
UX Nordic
Aarhus, Denmark, August 2023
Button Conference
Online, October 2022
Online, October 2020
Smashing Conference
Freiburg, Germany, September 2022
San Francisco, June 2022
Online, October 2020
Confab Conference (Keynote)
Online, May 2021
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Product Crunch Berlin
Online, September 2020
Nordic.Design
Stockholm, October 2019
Awwwards Conference
New York City, September 2019
UX Content Design Meetup
New York City, September 2019
Writers of Silicon Valley
Podcast interview, March 2019
Design & Content Conference
Vancouver, July 2018
Every Word Matters
Interview, April 2018
Writing
Advocating for the Value of Content Design
Q&A with Ditto
Who is Responsible for
Preventing Deceptive Patterns?
Article for Eye On Design
UX Writing in Practice
Article for the Adobe XD Ideas blog
Writing Is Designing
Technical review of the book
Remotely Closer to Gender Equality
Article for Within Magazine
Expanding Your Design System
Chapter on Voice & Tone for the book
by DesignBetter.Co
Teaching
School of Visual Arts: Masters’ Program in Interaction Design
Content Design panel
Spring 2024
Spring 2023
UX Content Collective:
Skills Seminar
Spring 2024
Parsons School of Design:
Masters’ Program in
Communication Design
Guest lecture, Spring 2020
The Cooper Union
School of Art: Web Design
Guest lecture, Fall 2019
Parsons School of Design:
Undergrad Communication Design
Guest lecture, Fall 2019
UX Writing Workshops
Ongoing