I wrote a book called Writing for Designers.
Which I like to style as Writing (for Designers). It’s a book about writing, and how to do it in design work, written for an audience of designers.
It is/was 65 pages, give or take, and part of the Briefs series from A Book Apart (RIP). It was published from October 2018 through the July of 2024 when A Book Apart ceased operations. For the moment, it is now technically out of print, and the publishing rights have been returned to me. If you’d like a digital copy, send me an email. There’s always a chance you’ll find a paperback floating around used somewhere, too.
Any copies you find still being sold as ‘New’ are not authorized, and I don’t see any money from any of these purchases. The book was print on demand and it’s unlikely any retailer had physical stock sitting around.
I expect to make it available again in the near future, first with the original text and then in an expanded second edition. Sign up here if you’d like to stay in the loop.
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About Writing for Designers
Writing for Designers explains how to get the writing done on design projects.
I wrote it for designers who know that words and writing are important, but haven’t found the book that makes writing “click”. Their eyes glaze over when people talk about passive voice and Oxford commas and dangling modifiers and other boring stuff. They’re used to learning things on their own and just need a good foundation to go from to get better with writing. If that sounds like you, or someone on your team, you’ve found the right book.
Writing for Designers has four chapters, plus an introduction, plus a lovely foreword from designer Dan Brown. It is an intentionally-brief 65 pages, so you can get just enough guidance to move forward with confidence, get back to work, and get the writing done.
Each chapter guides you through part of the high-level workflow you’ll follow to do the writing:
- Prepare (to do the writing)
- Compose (the words)
- Edit (what you wrote)
- Finish (the damn writing)