Resources
Useful guides and resources to prepare you for the work ahead.
Writing and content design
- Words as Material, Nicole Fenton
- Interface Writing: Code for Humans, Nicole Fenton
- Write an About Page That Gets You Hired, Nicole Fenton
- If You Are Writing an Essay or a Thesis, Chappell Ellison
- Core Model: Designing from the Inside Out, Ida Aalen
- Designing Case Studies: Showcasing a Human Centered Design Process, Senongo Akpem
- You Are What You Document, Yevgeniy Brikman
- Collaborative Information Architecture, Abby Covert
- Questions I Ask When Reviewing Design, Jason Fried
- Writing Comments in the Margins, Washington University Teaching Center
- On Writing Interfaces Well, Jonas Downey
- A Shorthand for Designing UI Flows, Ryan Singer
- Cardsorting for Brand Attributes, Margot Bloomstein
- The Language of Modular Design, Alla Kholmatova
- How to Write a Thank You Note, Leslie Harpold
- Structure, John McPhee
Design ethics
Storytelling
- Ten Rules for Writing: Part 1 and Part 2, with Zadie Smith, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, and others
- The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Shape of Stories, Kurt Vonnegut
- On Storytelling, Ira Glass
- On Story, George Saunders
- The Paris Review: Interviews
- Great Questions, StoryCorps
- Storytelling Your Way to a Better Job or Stronger Startup, Alina Tugend
- You Are Not a Storyteller, Stefan Sagmeister
Books
- Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose, Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess, Abby Covert
- Several Short Sentences About Writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott
- Writing to Change the World, Mary Pipher
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
- The Art of Communicating, Thich Nhat Hanh
- This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey, Steve Almond
- Show Your Work, Austin Kleon
Style guides