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The Elements of Content Design

In this online 5-hour lesson, learn 8 core elements of content design so you can create purposeful, strategic and user-centred digital content.
  • Level: Beginner or curious
  • Duration:  5 hours 
  • Creators: Liz Leigh and Nikki Fiedler

Course overview

Get introduced to the foundational principles that make content effective and user-friendly. Learn how to balance visual and textual elements to enhance readability and interaction. 

Explore key concepts such as clarity, simplicity, consistency and accessibility. Learn how each concept contributes to an engaging user experience that speaks the language of your customers and supports design goals and business objectives. 

  • Understand what content design is

    Learn how content design goes beyond writing to help users complete tasks and solve problems.

  • Explore the 8 elements of content design

    Each element is broken down with practical examples, tools and activities to help you apply them in real projects.

  • Apply a content-first approach

    Discover how starting with content before design or development leads to better user experiences and fewer design iterations.

Learning goals

  • Define what content design is.

  • Appreciate the need and benefit of content design being involved early in the design process. 

  • Understand how to apply content design principles.

"Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design; it’s decoration."
- Jeffrey Zeldman, Co-Founder of A List Apart magazine

Course format

Online

Register for a learning account to take the course remotely and online.​

On-demand

You’ll get access to the course for 6 months, so you can fit your learning into your schedule.​
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5 hours

With 5 hours of content, you can finish the course in a week or complete each lesson during your lunch breaks.​
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Cost

AUD$275 inclusive GST per person.

We also have payment plans so you can pay in instalments. We’ll provide you with an invoice, so don’t forget to claim a tax deduction. 

To enquire about a payment plan, email: admin@contentdesignhub.com.au

Specialist advice

Our content design experts, Liz Leigh and Nikki Fiedler, will support you along the way. For each lesson, there are checkpoints, quizzes and other interactions where our instructors will give personalised feedback. 
Liz Leigh smiling at the camera

Meet Liz, the Co-Founder of Content Design Hub

"When I found the content design discipline, I truly felt at home.

One day, I hope to see this design niche flourish and become a core part of design."

Meet Nikki, the Co-Founder of Content Design Hub

"Content design was the perfect discipline to put my unending questions to good use.

My empathetic tendencies and curiosity found a good home here too."
Nikki Fiedler smiling at the camera

Course lessons

Online course agreement

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