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Steve Hickey is a UX strategist and product design educator, cultivating a simple, no-bs approach to building things that matter. Originally trained in print design, Steve switched to the web during his final year in the visual design program at UMass Dartmouth. Now he works with East Coast Product in Boston, MA where he leads the Product Design team and builds experiences for companies that understand success comes from putting their users first. He’s also the former Director of AUX, a user experience apprenticeship program, as well as a writer and conference speaker, and a former podcast co-host.

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Content Modeling With Jekyll

Was there a tool Steve Hickey could use to help people quickly model content in a platform-agnostic manner and simultaneously build an artifact that was ideal for communicating intent to a client or team? There are some great further features that can established by digging into the Jekyll docs in more detail, but what we have here are the basics of a good content modeling prototype: the ability to define different types of objects, the attributes attached to those objects, and IDs that allow us to call specific objects from anywhere. Best of all, the whole system is simple and human-readable, and outputs plain HTML for use elsewhere if necessary. Read more…