About my work. I’m a writer based in Seattle, specializing in content design, UX writing, and content strategy.
I’m a creative problem solver and good communicator, imagining the experience from the users’ perspective to help them get to the next step in their process seamlessly, all while keeping business goals in mind. I collaborate with other designers, developers, engineering, marketing, legal, and others to understand and solve the product challenge. I see the fundamental interaction between the words and the design, I understand there could be technical constraints, and I bring the problem solving skills of a UX thinker—not just the ability to “fill in the words.”
In 2017, when I was a copywriter for Puget Sound Energy (and later AWS, and Microsoft), I learned about UX writing from Torrey Podmajersky and Elly Searle at the School of Visual Concepts. It was here that I realized I could contribute to making the web better—more usable for others. Here is some student work. I continued my study and networking, learning and practicing all I could. I started Scott Sammons Creative in 2019, and took on clients for content design work.
About me. I’ve always been drawn to storytelling and wrote my first full story in the 5th grade (a captivating whodunit). Plot holes and critics aside, it was invigorating and I was hooked. Stories are essential to who we are: we get news from stories, our beliefs are informed by sacred stories. Stories change our minds or solidify what we already know and believe. They ignite connection, conviction, love, resolve.
In my writing—for work or otherwise—I ignite the connection, conviction, love, and resolve.
Other less serious stuff: I used to be a saucier. My butter sauces were the best. Perhaps that’s why I’m now allergic to dairy. I can play any position on the soccer pitch well. Sometimes I ride a scooter with a gold fleck helmet. Other times, I like to snap photos on my Grandmother's Canon TX from the '60's. Someday, I’ll return to Valhalla, which in my case is pre-2005 Ballard, WA.