This month we have Jack Garfinkel from Scope, Lauren Tormey from University of Edinburgh, and Kelly Arnstein from University of Glasgow sharing insights and tips about how to make your content usable and effective.
Talks
Lauren Tormey
Lauren will talk through what she wants UX designers to know about content design – from an introduction to the discipline, to how it differs from other content roles.
Jack Garfinkel
Jack will talk about how to get a job in content design. He’ll cover skills you can learn on your own, projects to build your portfolio and how to use social media.
Kelly Arnstein
Kelly will show how content design and UX intertwine, using a recent case study of web content at University of Glasgow.
Tickets
We have limited places on Zoom so do book now (you don’t need a Zoom account to access this event).
Lauren Tormey
Lauren is going to talk through what she wants UX designers to know about content design – from an introduction to the discipline, to how it differs from other content roles.
Follow Lauren on twitter: @ltormey
Her slides- https://bit.ly/lauren-uxglasgow-dec20
https://readabilityguidelines.co.uk/
https://ltormey.medium.com/the-uk-immigration-system-needs-to-stop-hurting-people-9ecb60ab87be
Content design: https://contentdesign.london/content-design/what-is-content-design/
Content strategy: https://www.braintraffic.com/articles/new-thinking-brain-traffics-content-strategy-quad
UX writing: https://uxdesign.cc/ux-writing-ux-copywriting-content-strategy-and-content-design-are-not-the-same-job-a32f4878a5df
Content strategy vs content design and UX writing: https://medium.com/stringshq/the-past-present-and-future-of-ux-w
Readability guidelines: https://readabilityguidelines.co.uk/
UX vs service design debate: https://duncanstephen.net/service-design-and-the-mario-complex/
Personal links:
–running blog: https://laurunning.blogspot.com/
–immigration post: https://bit.ly/uk-immigration-hurt
–Twitter: https://twitter.com/ltormey
–LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-tormey
Jack Garfinkel
Jack is going to talk about how to get a job in content design. He’ll cover skills you can learn on your own, projects to build your portfolio and how to use social media.
Follow Jack on Twitter: @CuriousScutter
His slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HNhtNZlICygNo9SW7kIZuvMhucbYm2Vw8YBM4Z3mb3o/edit?usp=sharing
https://medium.com/content-at-scope
http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/the-a-z-of-alternative-words.html
Kelly Arnstein
Kelly is going to show how content design and UX intertwine, using a recent case study of web content at University of Glasgow.
Follow Kelly on Twitter: @kellyarnstein
Her slides ‘https://gla-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/kelly_arnstein_glasgow_ac_uk/EeO0yaeVg2FOnyVNpkBU4DMBgP-Do8151Rqt0V3ki7Oi4w?e=oaUFhy
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Sarah Richards – Accessibility is usability
https://www.writingisdesigning.com/
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