Thinking About Design

Good design can mean the difference between someone purchasing your product/book and passing on it. There’s a lot of emphasis on UX/UI design now, and the concepts can be applied to anything you sell.

Design and Words

• “9 simple but powerful UX writing tips for designers” on Medium: Make clear lists, scannable content, and links
• “Design words with data” on Medium: Use Google Trends, readability tests, and surveys

Design Tools

• Design Kit: Resources for human-centered design
• Timeline by Knight Lab: Easily create interactive timelines
• “JungleBook: Simple Kindle eBook Cover Analysis” on The Digital Reader
• “Free icons for product design” on Invision
• “Designing book covers in the browser” on Paged Media (demo)

Design Tutorials and Projects

• “How to make a Twitter header image” on Digital Trends
• “Artist Is Constructing a Parthenon Made out of Banned Books” on Electric Lit
• “A New Focus for Hardbound Books” on Hackernoon
• Web Design Museum

Tips and Tricks

• “How do you create a product people want to buy?” on Stacking the Bricks: Who do you serve, and what do they want?
• “Smart Jackets: Notes on Great Book Covers” on Publishers Weekly
• “Text Fonts: Book Design Choices Don’t End With The Cover…” on Saille Tales
• “Canva’s Ultimate Guide to Font Pairing” on Canva
• “‘Game of Thrones’ e-books make it easier to keep up with the action” on Engadget: An example of good design
• “Here’s How Indexing Could Evolve with Ebooks” on Digital Book World
• “UX Designers: Here are the 56 Best Websites To Learn Something New” on UX Planet