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Words & pixels go better together

Words & pixels go better together

On the web, everything looks the same. Let’s fix that. Instead of a first or last approach, let’s look at design and content in tandem.

We’re going to take you through a hands-on design and content approach that bites its thumb at boring trends without compromising the effectiveness of your UIs. Learn the business case behind flexible content and design systems that you won’t need to sell to your clients. We’ll partner up and play the roles of writer and designer, break out the pencils, and source, gather, position, and improve your content. Then, together, we’ll demonstrate how design can create stronger microcopy, editorial messaging, and calls to action. By the end of this workshop, you’ll be dying to trade your Open Sans and coffee cup headers for something a little bolder. Prepare your marketing team. They might not be ready for this.

There is a big disconnect between design and content development on the web. The technology and the organizations powered by it have built silos around the roles in our industry… especially around design and writing. We want to break those barriers and improve collaboration on our teams in pursuit of a more expressive and diverse digital culture. Doing so will hopefully extend our relevance well into the age of automation and artificial intelligence (and make our jobs a lot more fun in the process). What better way than to demonstrate how to do this in a safe, hands-on, exploratory way.

Louder Than Ten

June 27, 2016
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  1. Digital PM Trainer and Consultant Partner Louder Than Ten @louderthanten

    Travis Gertz Designer and Front-end Developer Partner Louder Than Ten Rachel Gertz
  2. What did you struggle with? What’s it like to work

    with content first? How did it go?
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  4. 7 Reasons Listicles Are The Worst! People certainly like articles

    like these, but it’s nonsense that it’s anything new or novel. What isn’t nonsense is that the proliferation of these lists — which used to be limited to the covers of glossy magazines in the grocery store — are dumbing down society. Why Listicles Are Bad For You You may not realize it, but consuming too many of these kinds of articles while you’re surfing the Internet is actually bad for your brain, and for your life in general. Since you’re probably here because you’re addicted to listicles, I’m going to make this article a listicle to help your brain out. May this be your one, last listicle ever. 1. Listicles May Lead to an Unhealthy Brain The worst danger that listicles pose is to your brain. They do all of the mental heavy lifting, so you don’t Stop reading this crap we’ve produced and sign up for our crappy newsletter so you can receive more crap.
  5. 7 Reasons Listicles Are The Worst! People certainly like articles

    like these, but it’s nonsense that it’s anything new or novel. What isn’t nonsense is that the proliferation of these lists — which used to be limited to the covers of glossy magazines in the grocery store — are dumbing down society. Why Listicles Are Bad For You You may not realize it, but consuming too many of these kinds of articles while you’re surfing the Internet is actually bad for your brain, and for your life in general. Since you’re probably here because you’re addicted to listicles, I’m going to make this article a listicle to help your brain out. May this be your one, last listicle ever. 1. Listicles May Lead to an Unhealthy Brain The worst danger that listicles pose is to your brain. They do all of the mental heavy lifting, so you don’t Stop reading this crap we’ve produced and sign up for our crappy newsletter so you can receive more crap. It looks like you’re writing a letter. How can I help you?
  6. What were the challenges? What were the rewards? How do

    you think your audience would feel? How can this work for other projects? How did it go?
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