Writing resources

Writing resources for professional development

• Book: Content Design by Sarah Winters (used to be Sarah Richards)

  • Short version: What is content design?

• Website: Readability Guidelines - a crowd-sourced research project led by the folks at Content Design London

• Blog: Content Design London - A content company owned by the same person who wrote Content Design, the book mentioned above.

• Website: UX Writing Library

• Newsletter: UX Writing Resources by Gordon Macrae

• Blog: Brain Traffic - you can subscribe for updates - they have great articles and a podcast and are located in Minneapolis

• Blog: Gather Content - They are a content software company and put out a lot of amazing, free information about content operations. They regularly offer free webinars that are delivered by experts in the field.

• Newsletter: Gather Content newsletter

• Slack organization: Content + UX - worldwide group of content and user experience professionals who share knowledge and resources, give/get advice, connect, etc.

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• Learning about users and their needs