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Technical Content Designer Program

Content designers who understand developer environments, tools, and mental models have greater impact. This 6-week program builds confidence through hands-on work with technical tools, AI, and the methods developers actually use.

Recordings

All sessions

Live

Meet your peers

Certificate

On completion

Jeremy Hoover

Jeremy Hoover

Senior Content Designer, Microsoft

Jeremy Hoover has spent 10 years collaborating with engineers and product teams on developer-facing tools — IDEs, APIs, CLIs, MCPs, and CI/CD workflows. He leads workshops on technical fluency in content design.

Next cohort

May 21-June 25

6 weekly sessions

Technical Content Designer Program

US $1600

Applications close April 30

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Who is this cohort for?

Newcomers

Content designers new to technical concepts.

Developer-adjacent

Content designers who work closely with developers.

Product teams

Content designers who want to understand how products are built.

Anyone else

Content professionals who want to understand repos and dev tools.

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

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Confidence navigating technical environments. Open an unfamiliar repository and find where content lives.

02

Understand how products are structured, where content decisions originate, and where content can shape product outcomes.

03

Read diffs, pull requests, make content edits in a feature branch, and participate in code review as a content designer.

04

Use AI to interpret unfamiliar code, run commands, work within tools like GitHub, and support your work directly.

Everything you need to master technical skills

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

6 weekly sessions

Live sessions with expert instruction and guidance.

Expert feedback

Learn by doing, and get answers to your questions.

Certification

Earn a certificate when you pass your final project.

Support

Need help? Get support between sessions.

Recorded sessions

Don’t miss a thing. All cohort sessions are recorded.

Student community

Connect with peers learning alongside you.

The full schedule

A comprehensive education in technical skills for content designers

Week 1: Environments and concepts

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Understand the fundamentals of engineering environments and how products are built. You’ll learn what a repository is, how codebases are structured at a high level, and how content fits into these systems.

Week 2: Navigating repositories​

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Learn how to explore a repository and locate content without relying on an engineer. You’ll work with common file types and patterns so you can understand what you’re looking at and where to make changes.

Week 3: Making changes

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Learn how to make content changes in a safe, local environment before sharing them. You’ll edit files, run the product locally, and understand how your changes appear in a working application.

Week 4: Sharing your work

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Take the work you’ve done locally and move it into the product through real engineering workflows. You’ll learn how to commit, push, and open pull requests, along with the terminology and processes used across teams.

Week 5: How engineers think

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Go deeper into how engineers approach problems and how products are structured in practice. You’ll connect the concepts and terminology you’ve worked with to better understand technical discussions and how features are actually built.

Week 6: Working with AI

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Bring everything together by looking at how this work is evolving. You’ll learn how LLMs enable content designers to combine human language expertise with engineering thinking to complete real tasks inside technical environments.

Learn technical skills 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

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a technical background?

No. This cohort is designed for content designers who are new to technical environments. You don’t need coding experience, just a willingness to learn and work hands-on.

 

No. You won’t be writing code. The focus is on understanding how engineering environments work and how to contribute within them as a content designer.

You’ll work with tools like GitHub and VS Code, along with common workflows such as pull requests, branches, and code review. The skills you’ll learn can be applied on any team using industry-common tools.

Yes. You’ll practice in a real repository created for the cohort, designed to reflect how teams actually work.

AI is used throughout as a practical tool. You’ll learn how to use it to navigate unfamiliar code, understand repositories, and support real workflows.

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

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