Cover of Strategic Writing for UX, second edition, by Torrey Podmajersky. It has a light background and an illustration of a gray catbird.

Strategic Writing for UX

When you depend on users to perform specific actions—like buying tickets, playing a game, or riding public transit—well-placed words are most effective. The book’s emphasis on strategy contextualizes why the UX writing tactics are so critical to meet business goals while satisfying and delighting the user.

This practical book has helped thousands of people learn to write for UX and build foundational UX content strategies for their products. The second edition was released in 2025, and includes all-new information about content design for LLMs, and a new example app for the enterprise space.

Strategic Writing for UX is available in English, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Italian.

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A testimonial of my book from John Maeda (Microsoft VP of Engineering), “Your book is now my fav on UX design. Content-first make so much good sense. Thanks to timhkabba for alerting me in the first place.” 
“Your book is now my fav on UX design. Content-first make so much good sense. Thanks to @timhkabba for alerting me in the first place.”

—John Maeda on Twitter, 16 Jul 2019