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Lizzie Bruce

Content design is pre-Alpha

Content is important, undoubtedly. It’s the medium for conveying information. But it isn’t everything.

Sep 8

Content design is pre-Alpha… It helps you to understand your processes and
describe them clearly to users. However, for deep value product and service design improvement, you need a multi-disciplinary team (and yes, that includes content). Graphic with light turquoise blue background and contrasting deep burgundy red text. The first line is in much larger font than the following 2 sentences.

Sep 8

Published in
Bootcamp

What is the ROI of window design?

I am so concerned about so much being loaded onto content designers.

Jun 10

What is the ROI of window design?

Jun 10

Published in
Bootcamp

Content designer interview questions — plus what to ask your interviewers

Here I share some interview topics and questions you might encounter, plus what you could ask the interviewers, a simple CV structure and…

Mar 15, 2022

2 people looking at sheets of paper which look like a CV.

Mar 15, 2022

UX design for homes: Dining room

//Dining room is the second in a series of room-based articles where I apply user-centred design principles from my digital design…

Oct 22, 2021

UX design for homes: Dining room

Oct 22, 2021

In praise of the content audit

First published February 2017 on the Digital Drum website.

Sep 21, 2021

Vinyl records filed alphabetically, someone’s hand is picking out a record titled ABC.

Sep 21, 2021

Published in
UX Collective

Why we need more user-centred design training options

Quietly, in the background, over the last months, I’ve been creating short, beginners’ lessons in user-centred design. This is not the…

Jul 30, 2021

Why we need more user-centred design training options

Jul 30, 2021

Published in
UX Collective

The content designer role: a definition and ideal way of working

Recent conversations led me to share the basic fundamentals of the content design role, as intended when it was created in 2012: a content…

Jul 27, 2020

Open box of colouring pencils, some outside. Hand holding one as if writing. Black background.

Jul 27, 2020

Why ‘title’ should not be a required field on online forms

It’s likely that most online forms that have ‘title’ as a required field were created that way without a second thought. “Oh, the paper…

Feb 27, 2020

Why ‘title’ should not be a required field on online forms

Feb 27, 2020

“Why do you need a content designer? The words just appear, right?”

I remember about 16 years ago describing my job to people I met socially. It was, at the time, web content editor for local online…

Jul 19, 2019

“Why do you need a content designer? The words just appear, right?”

Jul 19, 2019

Published in
Prototypr

Auto pop-up chat windows, a bit like Marmite

Except most people hate them. How can we do chat well?

May 15, 2019

Auto pop-up chat windows, a bit like Marmite

May 15, 2019

Lizzie Bruce

Lizzie Bruce

Hi. I'm a user-centred design advocate with a background in content. Love designing interactive content for services, and creating learning materials.

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