12 best-selling business books like Content Design by Sarah Richards

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Content Design

By: Sarah Richards

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Between 2010 and 2014, Sarah Richards and her team at the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Servi…

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Cover of Just Enough Research by Erika Hall, Jeffrey Zeldman

1. Just Enough Research

By: Erika Hall , Jeffrey Zeldman

4.18

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Design research is a hard slog that takes years to learn and time away from the real work of design… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
"A large corporation is more like Australia: it’s impossible to see the whole landscape at once and there are so many things capable of maiming or killing you."

-Erika Hall, Just Enough Research

"Some websites are completely optimized for simple conversion, and it’s easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb."

-Erika Hall, Just Enough Research

Cover of Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley

2. Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

By: Ann Handley

3.97

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

Finally a go-to guide to creating and publishing the kind of content that will make your business t… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • writing
Cover of Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug

3. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

By: Steve Krug

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since Don't Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers ha… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
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4. The Design of Everyday Things

By: Donald A. Norman

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
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5. Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

By: Jeff Gothelf , Josh Seiden

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today's web-driven reality. In this i… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
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6. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

7. Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every designer has had to justify designs to non-designers, yet most lack the ability to explain th… read more

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8. Content Strategy for the Web

By: Kristina Halvorson

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

If your website content is out of date, off-brand, and out of control, you're missing a huge opport… read more

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9. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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10. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

By: Alice Wong

4.47

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

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11. How (Not) To Be Strong

By: Alex Scott

4.43

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the football cages of East London to broadcasting to millions, the engine powering Alex Scott'… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

By: Jim Vandehei

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communicat… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • writing
"Brevity is confidence. Length is fear."

-Jim Vandehei, Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

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13. Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

By: Teresa Torres

4.47

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

"If you haven't had the good fortune to be coached by a strong leader or product coach, this book c… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
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14. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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15. Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience

By: Michael J. Metts

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Without words, apps would be an unusable jumble of shapes and icons, while voice interfaces and cha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design
  • writing
  • business
  • technology
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16. Content Design

By: Sarah Richards

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Between 2010 and 2014, Sarah Richards and her team at the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Servi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Richards's Content Design book and Sarah Richards's Content Design

  • nonfiction
  • design
  • writing
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Strategic Writing for UX: Drive Engagement, Conversion, and Retention with Every Word by Torrey Podmajersky

17. Strategic Writing for UX: Drive Engagement, Conversion, and Retention with Every Word

By: Torrey Podmajersky

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When you depend on users to perform specific actions―like buying tickets, playing a game, or riding… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design
  • writing
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them by Michelle Elman

18. The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

By: Michelle Elman

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Is your friendship group constantly filled with drama? Does your boss make constant unreasonable d… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "do I have the right to be thirsty?"

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

"There are no right or wrong rules, but which are your rules? It’s your house, they are your boundaries, and you decide."

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

"Your relationship served a purpose at the time and just because it no longer exists doesn’t mean it was a waste of time."

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

"We have romanticized needing another human, when I believe the most romantic thing is not needing someone but wanting them around anyway."

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

Cover of Good Services: Decoding the Mystery of What Makes a Good Service by Lou Downe

19. Good Services: Decoding the Mystery of What Makes a Good Service

By: Lou Downe

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Service design is a rapidly growing area of interest in design and business management. There are a… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
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20. Cultivating Content Design

By: Beth Dunn

4.07

Format: None pages, None

Great content doesn't happen in a vacuum. It gets bogged down in teams, organizations, silos, and p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • design
Cover of Deceptive Patterns: Exposing the Tricks Tech Companies Use to Control You by Harry Brignull

21. Deceptive Patterns: Exposing the Tricks Tech Companies Use to Control You

By: Harry Brignull

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Step into the shadowy world of deceptive patterns and learn how online businesses exploit consumers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design

12 Top design books like Content Design by Sarah Richards

Transform Your Habits

Just Enough Research

Erika Hall , Jeffrey Zeldman

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

Ann Handley

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman

4.11

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Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

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