It's the day after Thanksgiving and I'm researching some content design and IA heuristics, as you do. Does anyone have any helpful resources for developing content heuristics for products or apps? Sharing six of my favorite examples in the thread… 👇 - ThreadSky

jonathoncolman.org • 96 days ago

It's the day after Thanksgiving and I'm researching some content design and IA heuristics, as you do.

Does anyone have any helpful resources for developing content heuristics for products or apps?

Sharing six of my favorite examples in the thread… 👇

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jonathoncolman.org•96 days ago

@lapope.bsky.social's writeup of heuristics earlier this year was so thoughtful, useful and usable. Don't sleep on this!

https://lapope.com/2024/07/04/a-heuristic-framework-for-content-aka-principles-for-impactful-content/

jonathoncolman.org•96 days ago

Bobbie Wood put together this very thorough scorecard and I love that there's a handy PDF version that's easy to share.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ux-writing-checklist-content-heuristics-designers-bobbie-wood/

jonathoncolman.org•96 days ago

Uber published their content heuristics in their design system! Theirs was the only public design system I could find that included content-specific heuristics — but maybe I missed some?

https://base.uber.com/6d2425e9f/v/0/p/757b7d-content-heuristics

jonathoncolman.org•96 days ago

Here's an oldie but a goodie from Abby Covert that's openly based on several great IA frameworks from the early 2000s.

https://abbycovert.com/writing/ia-heuristics-journey/

jonathoncolman.org•96 days ago

Samantha Campbell (who may be @samanthacampbell.bsky.social here, but maybe not?) at Atlassian put together these super-crisp UX heuristics for auditing content based on @jakobnielsen.bsky.social's work.

https://medium.com/designing-atlassian/taming-the-content-monster-e8be5f937e72

jonathoncolman.org•96 days ago

Lol, I think this is the wrong Jakob Nielsen 🤦‍♂️

jonathoncolman.org•96 days ago

Likewise, Rachel Wood at ProCore also built on Nielsen's original work to produce these content design heuristics with visual examples for the UX Content Collective.

https://uxcontent.com/10-content-design-heuristics/

lapope.bsky.social•96 days ago

Thanks so much for the mention and for sharing all these other examples - bookmarked!

jonathoncolman.org•96 days ago

You did all the hard work, Lauren! I loved the structure and details of the heuristics you created—they're super-helpful for me and my team!

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