Considerate Content by Rebekah Barry
We work with organisations, big and small, to transform their content and help them succeed.
Books
Designed with Care: Creating trauma-informed content
Trauma can affect anyone, and have profound impacts on social, physical, and emotional well-being. It's estimated that 70% of the global population has experienced a traumatic event.
Designed with Care: Creating trauma-informed content explores what it means to design content for people who have experienced trauma. Written by designers, researchers, and educators around the world, the book is a must-read collection for anyone who works with people, information, or technology.
Letting Go of the Words by Ginny Redish
Letting Go of the Words, 2nd edition, is about creating great content for websites, mobile apps, and social media by thinking of content as conversation. In Letting Go of the Words, you’ll find lots of easy-to-read guidelines for having great online conversations with your site visitors.
Why You Need a Content Team and How to Build One (Second Edition) : McConnell, Rachel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Imagine a world without Lorem Ipsum. Imagine a world where content was so widely recognised as integral to any design process, and imagine a world in which content experts sit within all areas of a business. Good content sits at the heart of our products, services and experiences and it’s pivotal to the success of our business. It’s no longer enough to rely on visual design alone. This book will help you recognise the content maturity of your organisation, and find out how to increase it. It explains the different content roles, when to hire them, and how to hire them. It also helps you set your content team up for success. This second edition features updates and additional content, including the role of content ops.
Nicely Said by Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee
Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose is a book from Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee.
How to Write Clearly
How to Write Clearly: Write with purpose, reach your reader and make your meaning crystal clear (Freelance Writing Essentials) eBook : Albrighton, Tom, Kessler, Doug: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Content Strategy for the Web
BETTER CONTENT MEANS BETTER BUSINESS. Your content is a mess: the website redesigns didn’t help, and the new CMS just made things worse. Or, maybe your content is full of potential: you know new revenue and cost-savings opportunities exist, but you’re not sure where to start. How can you realize the value of content while planning for its long-term success?
For organizations all over the world, Content Strategy for the Web is the go-to content strategy handbook. Read it to:
Understand content strategy and its business value
Discover the processes and people behind a successful content strategy
Make smarter, achievable decisions about what content to create and how
Find out how to build a business case for content strategy
With all-new chapters, updated material, case studies, and more, the second edition of Content Strategy for the Web is an essential guide for anyone who works with content.
Writing Is Designing by Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle
Without words, apps would be an unusable jumble of shapes and icons, while voice interfaces and chatbots wouldn’t even exist. Words make software human-centered, and require just as much thought as the branding and code. This book will show you how to give your users clarity, test your words, and…
The Complete Plain Words a book by Ernest Gowers
Plain Words is one of the earliest and most influential books on the subject of clear language. First published in 1948, some of it is now dated and – as you might guess – there's no mention of the good ol' internet. But it's still a great read and worthy of a place on your bookshelves.
Content Design by Sarah Winters
If plain English is part of your role as a content designer, chances are this book needs no introduction. It's the authority on content design and sits on my desk next to me every day. If you write web content of any kind, I recommend you get a copy for your desk too.