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Data and user needs – what we did in the Content Design Academy
We are running our first 12-week Content Design Academy. We have a stellar group of people working on a project for Action Duchenne which helps children with muscular dystrophy and their families. Here the academy students share their learnings and experiences on...
Content discovery – how we did it in the Content Design Academy
We are running our first 12-week Content Design Academy. We have a stellar group of people working on a project for Action Duchenne which helps children with muscular dystrophy and their families. Here the academy students share their learnings and experiences on what...
Content Design course winners
To launch CDL’s international courses we ran a competition on 16th -23rd October 2019 to win a spot on one of our courses in Manchester and Australia. We’ll have more competitions in the coming months so look out for other opportunities. The competition question was:...
Getting into content design by Persis Howe
No one I know who’s working in digital content actually studied that at school. I studied English and Theater. I’ve worked with great content strategists who have degrees in art, biology, women’s studies and international relations. There is no single path into...
Competition: win a place on 1 of our 4 international 2-day Content Design courses
To launch CDL’s international courses we are giving you the chance to win 1 of 4 prizes. Enter to win a place on our 2-day course in 1 of these locations: The Hague, The Netherlands (this course is taught in Dutch), Sydney, Australia, Manchester, England, San...
Content discovery on a budget by Peter van Grieken
Content discovery is an essential part of content design. Doing research at the start of a project also enables us to produce content that meets our users’ needs and matches their mental models. Ideally, you work with a user researcher who helps you understand your...
WCAG 2.1 content accessibility audits and training by Content Design London
Did you know the law is changing, and you may now need to make sure you meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility requirements for your website? This applies to: companies who sell services and goods to public sector organisations in the EU all UK public sector organisations, with...
17 tips to get content people in the room, for non-content people
You’ve figured out that content design and strategy is not just words. And anyway you’ve realised you are not able to write those, in a concise, scannable, user-friendly, plain English way either. Maybe you’ve been following the #ContentDesign hashtag or you’ve read...
SEO and content design at Confab
This blog post is 1189 words long. If that's too much for you, the summary is: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to get traffic alone can cause pain. Be useful or get off the internet. Look at this presentation: SEO and content design: Integrating user-centered search...
Readability Guidelines May 2019 update by Lizzie Bruce
So we’re halfway through May already, where has the year gone? Well, we’ve been making progress with the Readability Guidelines project. Read on. We went live In March we launched the new Readability Guidelines wiki. It includes advice, explanations and examples based...