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The new basics: questions content designers should be able to answer in 2026

As the year heads into its final quarter (ack), it feels like a good time to take stock of where we are as an industry. This year's Button conference was a good piece of inspiration.…

Patrick Stafford October 2, 2026 7 min read

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Career

The new basics: questions content designers should be able to answer in 2026

As the year heads into its final quarter (ack), it feels like a good time to take stock of where…

Patrick Stafford Oct 2, 2026

Advanced UX Content

Building a content architect role from scratch

In my last article, I wrote about how the content architect role went from a hypothetical future to my actual…

Giovanni Ella Sep 7, 2026

Nobody will care that you used AI, but they’ll care if your writing sucks

Content design is about to go through the same separation. AI will produce more and more of the experience. Our…

Michelle Savage Sep 7, 2026

Career

Survivor’s guilt and other joys of not getting laid off

There's tons of great advice and resources out there for folks who get laid off, but maybe it's not so…

James West Aug 26, 2026

What vibe coding a Figma plugin taught me about content design

Using Cursor for vibing a Figma plugin to help content design required creativity, systems-level thinking, new ways of working, and…

Hunter Gebron Aug 12, 2026

How we stopped outsourcing decision-making to AI

Eva Ratcliffe on what happened when AI's confidence started substituting for her team's own — and how reading their own…

Eva Ratcliffe Aug 12, 2026

Claude Skills for content design: inside Intuit’s AI build

Intuit's content systems team built Claude skills for content design, packaging their standards into a plugin that applies guidelines wherever…

Sarah Mohs Aug 5, 2026

UX Writing Skills

We’ve rebuilt our Fundamentals of UX Writing course

The expectations for content designers and UX writers have changed. We're upgrading our curriculum to keep up.

Patrick Stafford Jul 27, 2026

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Get hired: job hunting and portfolio advice for content designers

Join Patrick Stafford, Casey Webb, and Andrew Stein as they discuss content design jobs in 2026 and advice for landing…

Patrick Stafford Jun 23, 2026

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Featured posts

The new basics: questions content designers should be able to answer in 2026

Key UX writing and content design topics

What is UX writing?

What is content design?

Content testing

AI in content design

UX writing for technical writers

Accessibility in UX writing

Intro to content operations

Systems thinking for UX content

Explore all content design blog posts

The new basics: questions content designers should be able to answer in 2026

Building a content architect role from scratch

Nobody will care that you used AI, but they’ll care if your writing sucks

Survivor’s guilt and other joys of not getting laid off

What vibe coding a Figma plugin taught me about content design

How we stopped outsourcing decision-making to AI

Claude Skills for content design: inside Intuit’s AI build

We’ve rebuilt our Fundamentals of UX Writing course

Get hired: job hunting and portfolio advice for content designers

Learn the technical skills employers expect now