Designing Connected Content
I remember years ago preaching to my unhearing and unlistening senior colleagues about how we needed to start building a new content system that yielded the benefits of the relational database, technology that had always underpinned our CMS.
Our CMS was appalling. It couldn’t support connected content and after years of lobbying pushed out something called Posts which wasn’t at all user friendly. It was a slow march in the right direction but not enough to convince my paymasters that we in our motives to build a domain model had the protein of something great.
Step forward Mike and Carrie to create a book that validates all that us content strategists have been saying quietly for years. Step forward a manifesto for change. A bright future for anyone who values content.
I adore this book. It’s complicated in parts, highly complex in others. But set your mind to learning mode and you’ll digest all the incredible messages and experience that lie within.
Please read this book if you have designs on building digital experiences. Being able to leverage the vast opportunities in faceted search await you after inhaling all the nuggets that your authors have lovingly compiled in the name of this ode to information architecture.
I love you, M&C.
