ABSTRACT

This flexible textbook provides an integrated approach to user experience (UX) writing and equips students and practitioners with the essential principles and methods to succeed in writing for UX.

The fundamental goal of UX writing is to produce usable and attractive content that boosts user engagement and business growth. This book teaches writers how to create content that helps users perform desired tasks while serving business needs. It is informed by user-centered design, content strategy, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital marketing communication methodologies, along with UX-related practices. By combining writing-as-design and design-as-writing, the book offers a new perspective for technical communication education where UX design and writing are merged to achieve effective and desirable outcomes.

Outlining the key principles and theories for writing user-centered content design, this core textbook is fundamental reading for students and early career practitioners in UX, technical communication, digital marketing, and other areas of professional writing.

part 1|56 pages

Perspectives

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction to UX Writing

chapter 2|19 pages

The UX Writing Process

chapter 3|15 pages

Building a UX Writer Outlook

part 2|121 pages

Processes

chapter 4|30 pages

Empathizing with and Assessing User Needs

chapter 5|22 pages

Defining Problems and Opportunities

chapter 6|15 pages

Ideating and Prototyping Content

chapter 7|28 pages

Testing, Managing, and Deploying Content

chapter 8|25 pages

Tracking and Measuring Success

part 3|60 pages

Practices

chapter 9|18 pages

Popular UX Writing Genres and Tasks

chapter 10|12 pages

The UX Writing Portfolio

chapter 12|13 pages

AI Recipes for UX Writing