Product Books

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  • Content Design

    Winters established the content design practice at the UK Government Digital Service, and this book sets out the method. Content design starts from a user need and from evidence about what people actually search for, then answers …

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  • Strategic Writing for UX

    Podmajersky treats interface text as a design material with a job to do, and builds a repeatable process for producing it. The book starts from the organisation's goals and the user's goals, derives a voice from the product's …

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  • The Pyramid Principle

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    Minto's method for structuring written and spoken argument. Ideas form a pyramid where each level summarises the ones below, groups are either deductive or inductive, and the introduction follows a situation, complication, question and answer sequence.

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  • Working Backwards

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    Bryar and Carr describe Amazon's mechanisms from the inside. The six page narrative memo instead of slides, the working backwards process that starts with a press release and FAQ, single threaded leadership, the bar raiser hiring …

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  • Writing Is Designing

    Metts and Welfle argue that the words in a product are part of the design and should be made the same way, through research, iteration and testing. The book covers writing for interfaces, handling the moments where a product has …

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