Content Design Learning Series

Content Design Learning Serires

CHALLENGE Address the need for more learning opportunities specific to the Content Design discipline

SOLUTION Coordinate and facilitate a Microsoft-wide monthly learning series for Content Designers

ROLE Co-Chair

RESULTS Steady attendance and a full schedule of speakers, both from inside and outside Microsoft

Together with the Learning Series co-chair, we built out a year long learning series for 2023 and 2024, which includes topics around AI, Copilot, prompt writing, and content coherence. Here are some of the sessions we’ve held:

How to write content for social media with Julie Feinerman, Senior Social Media PM
How Gen Z views content design with Dylan Romero, Principal Content Design Manager, and students from Seattle Pacific University
User Research for Content Designers - Erica Jorgensen author of Strategic Content Design: Tools and Research Techniques for Better UX
Content Design at Twitter - Lisa Young, Principal Content Design Director
Putting the "Design" in Content Design: Redefining our discipline - Jonathan Foster, Principal Content Design Manager
Accelerate your product's inclusiveness - Tany Holzworth, Senior Content Designer, and Swapnaa Jayarama, Senior Product Manager
Content coherence - Matt Brodsky, Senior UX Researcher

Based on feedback, we plan on recruiting more speakers from outside of Microsoft as well as holding additional talks about the fast-changing world of AI.