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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...
Content Design for marketers by Ruth Gilbey
How I learnt about “good” content marketing from a content designer, well actually the person who invented Content Design.I’ve been working with Sarah Richards since 2016.When we were introduced by Digital Mums I didn’t know who Sarah was or what Content Design was. I...
Alpha is for learning, beta is for doing by Hinrich von Haaren
In a recent content alpha and beta with the Law Society, we discovered how you can change your processes and content formats while producing a block of new content. Getting content transformation on its way The Law Society - the professional body for solicitors - is...
April Meetup
Last night was our first meetup. Here’s how it went. How to use journey mapping to breaking down silos. Journey mapping is when you take a task and lay out all the steps your audience will go through to complete that task. We invite marketing, legal, comms, content,...
Being a part of something big by Karin Tang
Change is something that we fear or resist. However, with change, we discover and innovate many great things like the Readability guidelines project. Have you heard about it? Well if not, you are definitely missing out. The project was set up by the “Queen of...