Steve Portigal is an independent user research consultant. He is the author of Interviewing Users and Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries. Steve and I both have new books, so we thought it’d be fun to compare notes on writing non-fiction. In this, the second of two episodes on the subject, we focus on the process of writing. If you haven’t done so already, listen to our previous conversation, which focused on our motivations.

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Steve Portigal
Steve Portigal - LinkedIn
Portigal Consulting
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights (2nd edition) by Steve Portigal
Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories by Steve Portigal
Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind Through Connected Notes by Jorge Arango
Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places by Jorge Arango
Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, and Jorge Arango
Scrivener
Tinderbox
The Informed Life episode 99: Mark Bernstein on Tinderbox
Freeform on the App Store
Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott (PDF)
Jack Kerouac - Wikipedia
The Informed Life episode 2: Gretchen Anderson on Writing

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