Content Designer

Definition

Content Designer

the specialized content worker role that is played when a person designs the contentfor one or more systems or applications

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Content Designer is part of the following inheritance hierarchy.

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Content Worker
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical role-specific responsibilities repsonsibilities of a Content Designer are to:

• Identify and define the different kinds of content.
• Identify and define the target users of these kinds of content.
• Develop templates for entering new content.
• Develop transformation software for entering acquired or migrated content.
• Define expiration dates for content as well as what will happen to the content when it expires (e.g., is it archived or deleted).

Content Designer typically inherits the general role responsibilities from the Role method component.

Personal Profile

To fulfill these responsibilities, a Content Creator typically should have the following personal characteristics, expertise, training, and experience:

Personal Characteristics

A Content Creator should typically have the following personal characteristics:

• TBD

Expertise

A Content Designer typically should have the following expertise:

• Expert knowledge of content management.
• Solid knowledge of the content-related aspects of the requirements and architectures.
• Solid design skills in:
  • Data modeling and design.
  • Data modeling tools and languages.
  • User Centered Design (UCD).
• A bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, or the equivalent.

Tasks

Content designers typically perform the following role-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Content Design

Content designers typically inherit common role tasks from the role process component.

Teams

Content designers typically perform these tasks as members of the following teams:

• Content Management Team

Work Products

As members of these teams, content designers typically produce all or part of the following work products:

• Content Management Plan
• Data Components:
  • Content Templates

Guidelines

• Naturally, the role is only needed if there is content to be managed.
• This role typically inherits the common team guidelines from the roles process component.