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Why all communications people should understand content design
I thought I knew a lot about creating content. Until I went on Sarah Richard’s Content Design course. I’ve had many job titles: journalist, editor, copy editor, copywriter, communications manager. But never content designer. I was intrigued. I was the only person...
read moreReadability guidelines alpha update: 3
It’s been just over 8 weeks since we published the readability guidelines wiki. If this is new news to you, this full blog post explains what is going on: https://contentdesign.london/usability/readability-guidelines/ In that time, we’ve: had 259 people (and counting)...
read moreIntroducing Lizzie
Lizzie is one of our new trainers. She’s currently helping the University of Cambridge design their content around user needs. Lizzie first worked with Sarah over a decade ago and was involved with GOV.UK. What’s your content background? I loved studying...
read moreReadability guidelines alpha update: 2
We’ve had 3 weeks to talk style. This week we looked at numbers and sentence length. In that time, we’ve: had 225 people (and counting) sign up to the Slack channel found that we all like a deadline. There was a flurry of activity in the last 2 days of this week...
read moreReadability guidelines alpha update
It’s been just over 2 weeks since we published the readability guidelines wiki. If this is new news to you, this full blog post explains what is going on: https://contentdesign.london/usability/readability-guidelines/ In that time, we’ve: had 153 people (and counting)...
read moreReadability guidelines
A couple of conversations on Twitter and LinkedIn led me to wonder if a universal style guide would be a good idea. Not brand or tone of voice just the mechanics of the language that are usually in style guides. So how to write a date or numerals vs numbers. But the...
read moreContent Design book winner – 19 June competition
On 19th June, we ran a competition to define Content Design in 13 words or fewer. These are just some of the entries. We had so many that we liked so thanks very much for everyone who responded. We'll have more competitions in the coming months so look out for other...
read moreIntroducing Stephen, our content design trainer
Stephen has been working with us for a year now and has been working with Sarah for over a decade. This month, Stephen will be running his first public course (he runs our bespoke, in-house courses most of the time). We thought you might like to meet him. What’s your...
read moreConfab 2018: best one yet
Confab this year was top-notch. I would have paid to see Gerry and Sara alone. It’s a bit late but here’s a quick summary of the things I learned. Gerry McGovern - Keynote Main message: work with other disciplines and with evidence of what is actually happening. Need...
read moreCleaning out a content closet.
Today I was thinking about why people are so attached to their content. I know I am very attached to some of the things I do. I work so hard on something, spend so much time with it that I start to get very attached. Then it is hard to see that what someone else is...
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