Best books on UX Writing, Strategic Writing & Content Strategy
Words shape the user experience. If you want to deepen your knowledge about writing for apps or developing a content strategy, check out my selection of books.
Why do you need good UX content?
The answer is simple: to achieve business and user goals.
You must develop an effective user-centric content strategy to make all content work for the project. That is, it should be based on an understanding of user needs.
I also know from experience that text in interfaces must be clear and valuable. Then users can interact effectively with your product or app, reach their goals and have a positive experience they want to repeat.
The 16 best books on UX Writing, Strategic Writing and Content Strategy
👉 Strategic Writing for UX: a book about how texts are not created to be read, enjoyed or appreciated. Content must interact with the user for them to achieve their goals and desires. The author offers strategies for converting, engaging, supporting and re-engaging users.
👉 Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose: the authors share tips and advice on creating quality content for websites, with a focus on style and target audience.
👉 How to Write Clearly: Here, you’ll find practical tips on creating texts based on clarity and effective communication.
👉 Strategic Content Design : Tools and Research Techniques for Better UX: a book about design, research and tools that could become a desktop book. The author shows you everything you need to create content that solves real problems for real people, from strategy to implementation.
👉 Content Design: hmmm, a good book in terms of content and terrible in terms of formatting. I recommend reading it in a paper version. Otherwise, you’ll be disappointed.
👉 Conversational Design: Erika believes that conversation (communication) is the best model for creating digital products. I think the book will be helpful for everyone, but especially for those interested in the principles and methods of designing conversations to create effective and enjoyable conversations for users of chat interfaces and voice assistants.
👉 Writing for the Web: Creating Compelling Web Content Using Words, Pictures, and Sound: a great resource that manages to be both simple but not dull and fun but not cute. Try the free racing exercises; they solve the “blank slate” problem instantly.
👉Transitioning to UX writing: The Complete Guide to Mastering User Experience, Accessibility, and Building a Successful UX Writing Career: a book for those who want to improve their UX writing skills significantly. It’s also a Must read for creating micro texts.
👉 Content Strategy Toolkit, The: Methods, Guidelines, and Templates for Getting Content Right: one of the benefits of the book is that it contains tips on how to talk about content strategy in the language of business and budget.
👉 Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience: after reading the book, you’ll understand why content creation is designed and start looking at the process as a design practice that can be planned and improved to have a lasting impact on the user experience.
👉 Content Strategy at Work: Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project: the book has easy-to-use models and examples from many sources.
👉 Storytelling in Design: this book convinced me that empathy and storytelling in development are as important as any technical aspect of the product itself.
👉 Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services: the author talks about basic principles of psychology that can be applied in user experience design to create more attractive and effective products and services written succinctly and knowledgeably.
👉 Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Create Ridiculously Good Content: reading the book will give you insight into the process and strategy of creating, producing and publishing content, as well as practical tips for getting results.
👉 Content Strategy for the Web: a book you’ll return to often because it’s concrete and practical.
👉 Microcopy: The Complete Guide: the book will give you a good idea of how micro text improves user interaction. It’s full of practical tips and examples; it’s fun to read.
These books present various aspects of UX Writing, strategic writing and content strategy and will help you deepen your knowledge and skills.
Would you be interested in other publications on the subject of UX Writing? Then I suggest you take a look at the following:
