WhatAbouttheContent? 
Integrating Content into your Customer Experience Processes 
Melissa Breker 
Kathy Wagner 
October 23, 2014 
Information Development World 
Content Strategy Inc
AboutUs 
Content strategy 
CX Research 
Tech Comm 
Content strategy 
Marketing 
Intnl. Business 
Co-Founders of Content Strategy Inc
What is Content Strategy? 
AboutUs 
We change the way people think about content. 
Recent clients include:
What is Content Strategy? 
Agenda 
CX process 
Why integrate content? 
How do you do it? 
Resources 
Questions 
Joinusforajourney
Discovery 
Design 
Validation 
Development 
Improvement 
What’stheCXProcess?
Discovery 
Design 
Validation 
Development 
Improvement 
•Stakeholder interviews 
•User surveys 
•Focus groups 
•Card sorting 
•Observation 
•Contextual inquiry 
•Task analysis 
•Personas 
•User journeys 
•Mind maps 
•Wireframes 
•Prototypes 
•Storyboarding 
•Usability testing 
•Heuristic evaluations 
•Design patterns 
•Style guides 
•Usability testing 
•Heuristic evaluations 
•Satisfaction testing 
What’stheCXProcess?
Why? 
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Tokickbutt!
Tocreategreatexperiences
Content is often the reason users come to your site. 
~ Jesse James Garrett 
http://www.adaptivepath.com/about/team/jesse-james-garrett/
Content is at the center of many experience successes and failures. 
~ Jared Spool 
http://www.webstock.org.nz/talks/anatomy-design-decision/
Tobuildloyalty
45% of US consumers will abandon an online transaction if their questions or concerns are not addressed quickly. 
~ Forrester 
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140515123533-64515439-17-important-customer-experience-statistics-for-the-call-center 
Becauseit’sgoodbusiness
How do you do it? 
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What about the content? 
Askyourself…
Discovery 
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How can content… 
Discovery
What’s the good, the bad, and the ugly? 
Andalso… 
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm221220608/ch0038741
How do you create content? 
What’s great, and what sucks? 
What does content HAVE to deliver? 
Stakeholderinterviews
Tip: Categorize & prioritize content questions. 
Stakeholderinterviews
UserSurveys 
What topics interest you? 
What channels and devices do you use? 
What are your priorities? 
What terminology resonates?
Identifies user needs. 
Resolves stakeholder disputes. 
UserSurveys
CardSorting 
Yes, traditional card sorting. 
But also
CardSorting
Design 
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OK, but… 
Personas 
http://blog.mailchimp.com/new- mailchimp-user-persona-research/ 
https://www.behance.net/gallery/18514629/DOW-JONES-COMANY-Design
Whataboutthecontent?
What topics interest them? 
What channels do they use? 
What format do they prefer? 
What messages motivate them? 
Personas
Personas 
© Brain Traffic
CustomerJourneys 
http://www.joycehostyn.com/blog/2010/03/22/visualizing-the-customer-experience-using-customer-experience-journey-maps/
CustomerJourneys 
How can content support them along the way? 
What content…
CustomerJourneys
CustomerJourneys 
© Brain Traffic
MindMaps 
What content will help …
MindMaps
What are the content requirements and guidelines for each area? 
Wireframes
Wireframes
Validation 
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Yes, they can useit. BUT… 
UsabilityTesting
WhatAbouttheContent? 
http://www.stripersonline.com/g/i/1396043/banksy-thinking-monkey-jpg-jpeg/
Will you read it? 
Can you understand it? 
Can you act on it? 
UsabilityTesting
UsabilityTesting
HeuristicEvaluation 
How can you apply these to content? 
http://adityabhandari.com/user-research/usability-evaluation-of-olark-com/
HeuristicEvaluation
Development 
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http://eightshapesunify.s3.amazonaws.com/CreatingAUXDesignLibrary.Final.pdf 
Patterns&SupportTools
Hay!WhatAbouttheContent?
Content style guides 
Content models 
Content processes 
Patterns&SupportTools
Improvement 
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OngoingResearch&Testing 
https://uxpa.org/jus/article/adapting-web-10-evaluation-techniques-e-government-second-life
OngoingResearch&Testing
Usability&Satisfaction 
http://iqcontent.com/blog/2013/05/putting-a-number-on-usability/
Usability&Satisfaction
Tosumitup…
Content Strategy Inc Blogs: 
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ContentStrategyResources 
Content Strategy Books
content 
Thanks. 
Questions?
@MelissaBreker 
@Kathy_CS_Inc 
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