Overcoming the ‘everything everywhere all at once’ of content
Why narrowing your focus could be the best thing you do for your content career.
Opinion
Spite House: AI, disintermediation and the end of the free web
A zine about becoming a spite house. Refusing to move as AI bulldozes the free web and disintermediation kills content discovery.
‘But I’m not creative’: The role of creativity and connection in content design
A zine (or a good old article) about the role and value of creativity in the ‘best practice’ world of content design.
Content at…Scope
An interview with Stephanie Coulshed (she/her), Content Design Programme Lead at Scope.
Content at…Action for Children
An interview with Ruth Stokes, Senior Content Designer on Parent Talk at Action for Children.
How AI is changing the landscape for content strategists and designers
Changing search behaviour, the enshittification of the web, and threats to intellectual property. Keeping our jobs isn’t the only challenge AI poses for content folk.
Content service thinking
Could thinking about your content as a service transform how you serve your users, online and offline? I’m starting to think it could.
Year notes: a reflection on and round-up of my work in 2023
Content is a service, project management is key, and other things I learned/did in 2023.
Why a bad website is like a car boot sale
One of my clients used the best metaphor for bad, organisation-focused websites the other day: a car boot sale. I was so struck by the comparison, that I had to write about it.