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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.

  • Learn how strings are contained in code
  • Challenging final project in GitHub
  • Learn how AI coding tools empower content design

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Team pricing

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Certificate

On completion

Patrick Stafford

Patrick Stafford

UXCC, MYOB

Dave Connis

Outsystems

Technical Foundations
$400

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“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

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

Prasaja Mukti

UX Writer, GovTech Indonesia

Who is this course for?

Content designers

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

Code-curious

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

Content pros

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

Anyone else

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

What will you walk away with?

Our courses are created by experts, informed by hiring managers, and reflect industry best practice.

5,000+

Students trained

200+

Teams trained

100+

Countries

01

Understand how digital products are built and where content lives in the architecture

02

Navigate GitHub, read pull requests, and submit content changes via PR

03

Use AI tools to perform technical tasks and verify the output

04

Communicate with engineers using their terminology and workflows

Everything you need to master tech foundations

A complete system for learning, practicing, and proving your skills.

10-20 hours

Self-paced learning that fits your schedule. 

Certification

Earn a certificate when you pass your final project.

Empower content with AI

See how AI coding tools can empower content design work

Instructional videos

Videos on key concepts including how to use GitHub and AI tools.

Student community

Connect with peers learning alongside you.

Final project in GitHub

Learn how to read strings in code and create your own PRs.

The full syllabus

A comprehensive education in writing content for product interfaces

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.

Learn tech foundations with over 5,000 students

See what our students have to say about the course.

“Our product team made a content update using the ideas from the Fundamentals of UX Writing course. We’ve since seen a 20% increase in conversions.”

Sam DeReign

Group Content Strategist, Course Hero

“We wanted a fundamental training that provided a calibration for some basic understanding on how we do our daily work.”

Isabelle Gao

Senior UX Writing Lead, HSBC

A UX writer course graded by experts

Get feedback on every assignment from working content designers at top companies.

Olivea McCollins

Content Designer, Microsoft

Jenny Cowan

Senior Content Designer

Daree Allen Nieves

Content Designer

Casey Webb

Casey Webb

Senior Content Designer
Snap Finance

Sammie Spector

Head of UX Content Design, Angi

Catherine Bryce

Senior Content Designer, Canadian Red Cross

Have questions? We’re here to help.

We can combine self-paced courses, workshops, or create custom sessions for your team based on unique needs. Get in touch – we’d love to speak with you.

Dhanushka

Customer Success Manager

Craft · Strategy · Systems

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