Content design

Working in the open is a powerful governance tool that provides leaders with earlier visibility into work, allowing them to identify risks and steer outcomes before they become costly crises. If you feel accountable for outcomes, risk, reputation and public money, but you don’t always get a clear view of the work early enough to steer it, this is for you.

The Co-op Digital blog was set up almost 7 years ago, alongside the digital arm of the Co-op. Since then we’ve matured. We’ve changed our name internally several times, and we now sit a…

Content used to be something you read. Now it's something you use. And when that content fails, people fail. That's why content design exists.

Explore the future of content design with Jess Ouyang (Co-founder, Ditto), Dave Connis (Lead Content Designer, OutSystems), and Chris Greer (Staff Content Designer, Stripe)

I think that everything can be seen as hypothesis driven design. The real question is whether or not we write down the assumptions behind…

We work with organisations, big and small, to transform their content and help them succeed.

We've been applying the new Service Standard to content on GOV.UK. Find out how to map tasks within an end-to-end service to improve user journeys.

Tips from our UX writing team for getting started with Figma

The content design field is changing. It's time to think carefully about what skills to prioritize, and how to adapt.

A case study on false affordance and the hidden costs of deceptive UI feedback.

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Over the years, content designers have talked to me about challenges they are having with colleagues who want them to publish some text they wrote, regardless of whether it is designed for digital.

What are user stories for? How can you spot a good or bad user story? And how can you use them to test and improve your content?

Do you call yourself a content editor, content writer, digital writer, content designer, copywriter…? We have a lot of names for ourselves.

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A zine (or a good old article) about the role and value of creativity in the 'best practice' world of content design.

One of the best ways to create great products is to hold UX writing reviews regularly with other stakeholders, like non-writers.

How to help a product introduce itself.

When to use tables and how to make them accessible.

Introduction As content designers, we’re living in a time of change. Much like in the 1990s, when our profession transitioned from physical paper to pixels and code, this decade marks the shift from manual writing to AI-powered text generation. The change is inevitable and we want to be ready.   So how can we use […]

10 patterns to structure your content for understanding, engagement, and effectiveness - and a matrix to help you choose the right one.

About a year ago, I set up some custom tracking in Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to measure user behaviour after a…

An interview with Stephanie Coulshed (she/her), Content Design Programme Lead at Scope.

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Config 2024: Content design and AI: a beginning, not the end. (Ryan Reid, UX Writer, Figma, )AI won’t take your content design job… unless you let it. In thi...

I speak to a lot of content people who are really struggling to get their organisation to accept good content design. This post is for you.

When you are making a digital form, is it OK to put a hint inside a text box? The short version of my advice: don’t do it! Hint text is rarely effective as a way of helping users, but insteadContinue reading... Don’t put hints inside text boxes in web forms