Bitesize lessons 🧁

Short, practical, online lessons in user-centred design and content design – at tiny prices. Beginner level and up. Do any time: fit to your schedule, with unlimited access after purchase. Affordable, snackable. For everyone. Read why we are designing these.

Teacher

Lizzie Bruce, who combines a post-graduate CELTA teaching qualification with 17 years’ professional experience in user-centred content design and strategy.

Lesson menu

User-centred design

• Introduction to user-centred design £4
• Glossary of user-centred design terms £1
• Content usability basics £4
• Digital transformation, or service transformation?

Agile working

• Agile phases: how content fits in each.
• Why multi-disciplinary teams rock.
• Show and tells, product team retros.
• Defining shared project vocabulary £4
• Agile terms translator.

User research and user needs

• User journey mapping.
• Inclusive, ethical user research: an introduction. FREE
• 20+ user research techniques FREE
• Research analysis.
• User needs: meaning, and design purpose £4
• Card-sorting for naming and labelling.
• Language research.
• Rapid prototyping.
• What is iterative design?

Information design

• Writing for web: an introduction £4
• Content design: an introduction £4
• Service design: an introduction.
• UX design, UX writing, interaction design, tech writing: overviews.
• Task-based content £4
• Using source materials and identifying gaps.
• Pair writing with stakeholders.
• Page structuring and sketching.
• Content crits and peer reviews.
• Wire framing and design flows.
• Navigation and information architecture.
• Basic coding for content designers.
• Content patterns and consistency.

Inclusive, accessible content

• Clear language basics £4
• What is readability? FREE
• Content accessibility: an introduction £4
• Content inclusivity: an introduction £4
• Accessible fonts.
• Learn about WCAG (World Content Accessibility Guidelines).
• Design ethics.
• Design out bias FREE

SEO and findability

• Content findability £2

Content curation

• Content ownership identification.
• Workflow and publishing flow.
• Content analytics and ROI (return on investment).
• Content maintenance.
• Content migration.
• Future content development.

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