Blog: Content writing and content strategy insights

User testing your web content leads to happiness

Nov 12, 2015

Posted by: Alice Hearnshaw

Filed under: books,  user experience,  web content

One of the UXNZ 2015 Conference highlights for me was the opening speech by legend US information architect and publisher, Lou Rosenfeld. He talked about how he came up with the design and layout for the books his company publishes. Quite simply, he took his books out and tested them with real people. He wanted to learn whether he could make an age-old product like a hardcopy book easier to use. Turns out you can.

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Writing tip: Editing web content

Sep 21, 2015

Posted by: Rachel McAlpine

Filed under: tips,  web content,  web writing,  writing

Editing is always a step-by-step process. And always you start by asking the big questions, such as:

  • Is this web page really necessary?
  • What is this page for? 
  • Who needs it?
  • Is the same information on another page?
  • What do you want people to do after reading this page?
At work when the pressure’s on, what do you do? You apply the 80:20 principle: you skip to a simple Contented system that will fix the majority of problems very fast.

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