Technical Foundations for Content Designers

A self-paced course for content designers who want to read and manage strings in code, navigate GitHub, use the terminal, and work with developers and engineering teams. Not to become a dev, but a more equipped content designer.

Standard price: USD $ 400.00
UXCC students: ~~USD $ 340.00~~ USD $ 340.00 (15% off!)

Team discounts available. Payments in USD.

Meet the authors

Dave Connis is the Lead Content Designer at OutSystems. He leads the Systems Thinking workshop for UXCC.

Patrick Stafford is the CEO and cofounder of the UX Content Collective.

Who is this course for?

Content designers who feel blocked by technical conversations and want to participate

UX writers who've been asked to review a pull request, or find strings in code, and don't know where to start

Content professionals who want to understand where content actually lives in the product

Anyone who's heard "it's in the repo" or "just check the JSON" and felt lost

"The course is fantastic, easy to understand, and simplifies complex terms. I wish I had access to this course when I started out."

Risi Finkel

UX Writer and Content Designer, Google

"This course isn't turning content designers into devs. It gives them structural understanding to stop being surprised by complexity.'

Prasaja Mukti

UX Writer, Govtech Indonesia

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About Technical Foundations for Content Designers

What do you leave with?

Understand how digital products are built and where content lives in the architecture
Read data formats well enough to identify and locate strings
Navigate GitHub, read pull requests, and submit content changes via PR
Use the terminal to audit content at scale. Search, count, and extract strings across entire codebases

How does the Technical Foundations for Content Designers course work?

Technical Foundations for Content Designers course syllabus

Unit 1: Understand Technical Systems

Lesson 1: An intro to technical systems
Lesson 2: Where content actually lives
Lesson 3: Understanding messy systems

Unit 2: Read and Navigate Code

Lesson 1: Strings live in code
Lesson 2: How strings get from files to users
Lesson 3: Reading strings wherever they live
Lesson 4: Making your first content change

Unit 3: Participate in Technical Workflows

Lesson 1: Content design through the terminal
Lesson 2: AI for technical work
Lesson 3: Communicating in technical workflows

Navigate a repo and make changes

You’ll work with a realistic product repository that has real content problems. You’ll navigate it using the skills learned in this course, then explore it and create your own pull requests.