CONtent design and writing
CLC
Empowering adults with relevant UX skills through a
full-day workshop of engaging, collaborative content.
Canada Learning Code (CLC), previously known as Ladies Learning Code, champions for coding and design education in Canada. It drives results through program design and delivery, strategic industry and public partnerships.
Since 2011, the organization has had over 600,000 participants join their 10,500+ education events. In total, there are over 10,500 mentors across Canada that volunteer their time and programming skills to teach at half-day or full day workshops. I was a regular mentor from 2015-2019, teaching HTML/CSS and UX design to learners across Canada.
Summary
As part of their annual National Learn to Code Day (NLTCD) on Sep 21 2019, I was asked to be a part of CLC's advisory team to spearhead a first-time User Experience Design Workshop set to launch in all of Canada. I led and developed all the content together with the CLC team over 9 months.
On the day itself, I assisted as one of 5 mentors at the main Toronto workshop hosted at Google HQ. Led by the instructor, I mentored over 70+ learners UX design fundamentals through a mixture of lessons and prototyping activities during the live-streamed 6 hour workshop.
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Project Scope
- Workshop content development
- Content research and curation
- Content feedback (Team and Mentors)
- Content review (Learner Group)
- Front-end publishing in Markdown/SASS
Tools
content creation
testing
Live Workshops
Process
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Content curation and writing
Before we began, it was understood by the team that this first-time workshop would be a huge undertaking.
Facilitated by my project manager, the advisory team and I spent the first few weeks discussing what design content should be included.
The main topics discussed were:
- People-first, inclusive design
- Design ethics
- Motion Design
- Fundamental design resources (i.e., books)
As the content developer, my role was to curate and write all workshop content. The content would then go into a customized slide deck for distribution to all instructors and mentors to teach on the event day. All content was timeboxed so that instructors could gauge their schedule more easily.
Organizing the content included:
- ✅ Ensuring content was topic-relevant
- ✅ In-house creation of all workshop activities, such as a prototyping session
- ✅ Accuracy of citations
- ✅ Diverse design perspectives
- ✅ Attainable learner goals and knowledge checks
Outline Excerpts (Click for more images)
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Content Publishing
Using Atom code editor, I worked on a provided base html/sass template, adding the content in Markdown/HTML. Where needed, I edited the SASS stylesheet accordingly.
