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Structuring contentin an evolving design.
@emcguane
About me.@emcguane
I used to work like this.
Now I work like this.
A project.
Pitch first, reverse engineer later.
Writing for everyone, from scratch.
•Platform
•Backbone
•Gaps
What are you willing to sacrifice?
•Agile, kind of
•Mobile-first, sort of
•Responsive, mostly
The story.
All the products.
Structure to support content delivery?
Structure to support editors.
Narrative structure.
I’m$a$sheep$farmer$and$use$my$Honda$generator$to$power$sheep$scanners,$as$soon$as$the$sheep$become$pregnant.$It$is$used$at$an$early$stage$in$pregnancy$to$tell$whether$a$ewe$is$in$lamb$or$not.$
The story of every product.
The story of the brand.
The arc of a page.
The hook
A single telling detail
ChoiceComparison at the
heart
Benefits in a narrative
Emotion as an anchor
Choice
Choice
Story told in sequence.
The whole story.
The teaser
The proofThe
technical stuff
The fun extras
The decision
The reader rules all.
Mobile first inevitably.
Where we went wrong.
“Let’s focus on structure to begin with, and think about content all the time.”
- @markboulton
We wrote words early. And looked to words already written.
Content modeling?
What formats should we build?
Just how much content variety does one site need?
How do you communicate these decisions?
Tools and documentation.
Own your IA.
Source material is only one input.
Structure can’t be siloed from meaning.
@markboulton again: “Designing a magazine or newspaper system requires the designer to exercise rigorous restraint with a hugely variable melting pot of content.”
Structure without goals or needs is useless.
A Page Description Diagram? (I hate naming things)
‘A trigger, not a finished brief.’- Greig Robinson
Structure and the CMS.
Always be OK with letting things go.
Work better together.
“The best solution isn’t to build tools that hide that complexity from the user, that make them think that the styling they’re adding to the desktop site is the “real” version of the content.
- @karenmcgrane
Need to think visually and structurally.
My success story.
Price.Rate.Service.
Why it worked:precise. reusable. needs-based.
Structure is a common thread
between disciplines.
Content modeling is “the practice by which disciplines collaborate on the design of structured content”.
- Cleve Gibbon & Rachel Lovinger
All design should be “the practice by which disciplines collaborate on the design of structured content”.
- Everyone someday, hopefully
Thank you.@emcguane