Author: Geoff Day

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Enduring excellence in research goes digital

A few months ago the Research Office approached us to help them turn their publication, Enduring excellence in research, into a set of web pages. I thought it might be interesting to use this example to explore some of the challenges of presenting a printed document online and the approach we took.

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Happy blogday!

Cake with "Happy Birthday" and the number 1 on it.

 

Wow, has it been a year already? The content design blog is celebrating its first birthday.

In this post I thought I would share some of the highlights of the year with a list of the most read posts:

  1. Tools for card sorting and tree testing – 12 February 2018
  2. Content design techniques: content audits – 1 February 2018
  3. Content design techniques: User and job stories – 17 May 2018
  4. Content design techniques: pair writing – 15 June 2018
  5. Content design techniques: card sorting – 19 March 2018
  6. Techniques: Content discovery and audience mapping – 2 October 2018
  7. Tools for collaborative writing – 19 July 2018

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New year’s resolutions for your content

 

Small dog wearing sunglasses with a glass of champagne holding a laptop displaying the Content Design blog.

Happy new year! I hope everyone had a good break and is feeling refreshed and energised.

It is that time of the year for making all those little promises to yourself like shedding those extra Christmas pounds in the gym, quitting a bad habit or learning another language. If those sound like hard work, then you could make some content resolutions to improve the pages you look after. Here are a few suggestions to make the web a better place in 2019. I promise that none of them involve eating kale! (more…)

NN/g UX Conference and tips for writing great digital copy

A day at the UX Conference in London

Lanyard for the UX conference in NovemberLast week, I attended the UX (User Experience) Conference in London. The conference brought together people from different industries across Europe, all with a shared interest in user experience. 

There were the usual networking opportunities, but the main focus of the conference was the wide range of training courses covering topics like:

  • Managing UX strategy
  • Information Architecture
  • Content strategy
  • Customer journey mapping
  • User testing
  • Writing for the web

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