The Design of Content: Strategies for Lasting Impressions
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Since the 1450s, we have been improving the reading experience. In a comparative instance, all of that work is seemingly discarded by the process of digital content creation and distribution. Is it possible to apply that history when we work with markup languages and distribute the same content over so many channels? Does the medium even matter anymore? In this session, you will hear an old take on a new problem. While there is some history, you will also be presented with possible solutions to problems of comprehension, retention, readability, and overall user experience from content.
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- 1. @suredoc Keith Anderson: The Design of Content ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 1
- 2. The Design of Content @suredoc #designcontent #bigd14 ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 2
- 3. The Design of Content DESIGN AND THE READING EXPERIENCE ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 3
- 4. The Design of Content Some Background Since the 1450s, we have been improving the reading experience ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 4
- 5. The Design of Content GesFtaultt Pusyrceho lOogvyerlords What the eyes take in the mind processes as a whole. • Background/Foreground • Law of Closure • Law of Similarity • Productive Thinking • Law of Continuity • Law of Proximity ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 5
- 6. The Design of Content Jan Tschichold The form of our letters, the older handwriting, and inscriptions, as much as the cuttings in use today, reflects a convention that has slowly solidified, an agreement hardened in many battles. The Form of the Book The Importance of Tradition in Typography 1966 ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 6
- 7. The Design of Content So What Happened? Digital content and markup languages spurred the separation of content from formatting and chaos ensued ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 7
- 8. The Design of Content Jan Tschichold Lack of pleasure in the usual, the commonplace, deludes one into the dark notion that different could be better. The Form of the Book The Importance of Tradition in Typography 1966 ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 8
- 9. The Design of Content And The Rest Is History ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 9
- 10. The Design of Content Ask Yourself • Just because you can, should you? • Are you doing this because it’s pervasive rather than practical? • Is imitation really that sincere? • If all your friends were flattened by a steamroller, would you still design like that? ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 10
- 11. The Design of Content CONTENT WITH CONTENT ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 11
- 12. The Design of Content Can Content Truly Be Alone? And so to completely analyze what we do when we read would almost be the acme of a psychologist's achievements for it would be to describe very many of the most intricate workings of the human mind as well as to unravel the tangled story of the most remarkable specific performance that civilization has learned in all its history. The beginnings of such an analysis and description are attempted with the help of many coworkers in the psychological chapters which follow the strange and fascinating story of how the book and page have grown to be is sketched in the chapters on the history of reading using the records of many patient scholars. Edmund Burke Huey The psychology and pedagogy of reading 1908 ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 12
- 13. The Design of Content Why Are You Creating Content? • Profit • Entertainment (yours or your readers?) • Education • Connections • Compliance • History ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 13
- 14. The Design of Content Why Do You Have Readers? • Product Support • Information Seeking • They Want Connections • Discourse Communities • You Are Unique • Fact Checking • You Don’t Really Know ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 14
- 15. The Design of Content Content Strategy: The art and science of controlling the creation, storage, maintenance, and dissemination of words and their associated assets and context to be congruent with an organization’s goals. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 15
- 16. The Design of Content Stupid Analytics The User Experience movement has simultaneously helped and hindered how we communicate ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 16
- 17. The Design of Content The Huffington Post Model ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 17
- 18. The Design of Content Coherence, continuity, and cohesion Writing to serve a larger purpose will connect people in ways never anticipated. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 18
- 19. The Design of Content Your Job To anticipate readers’ expectations and provide them with quality content within a context to help them achieve their goals. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 19
- 20. The Design of Content CONTEXT IS KING ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 20
- 21. The Design of Content Context Strategy Deliberate use of all information available about readers to enhance reading comprehension, retention, and education. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 21
- 22. The Design of Content Context Strategy Just like content strategy, context strategy is a plan producers must follow to achieve measurable goals. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 22
- 23. The Design of Content Context Is Abstract Context has no concrete definitions, no universal standards, and may change with nearly any influencer. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 23
- 24. The Design of Content OKAY, WE’VE PLAYED WITH THE NEW TOYS; IT’S TIME TO WORK ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 24
- 25. The Design of Content Information Interaction Design The intersection of three different disciplines: • Information Design • Interactive Design • Sensorial Design If done well, these disciplines can help us create context consistently. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 25
- 26. The Design of Content Take Content Seriously Write and Design with Purpose. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 26
- 27. The Design of Content Take Your Readers Seriously People are not gadgets. Stop treating them as empty vessels with a bank account. Inform them. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 27
- 28. The Design of Content Take Writing Seriously Employ your knowledge of a long and amazing history of human communication. Build on that proud tradition. The more seriously you take content, they more seriously your readers will take you and your message. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 28
- 29. The Design of Content Take the Work Seriously Take the time to conduct reader research. Build profiles, conduct surveys, and make sure you understand what they expect from you. ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 29
- 30. The Design of Content Questions? @suredoc ©2014 Keith Anderson / mkanderson.com / @suredoc 30
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