Types of Content

There are many different types of content:

• Client
• Self-Generated
• Wikipedia or other Third Party Sites
• User Generated Content

Client

• When you work with clients as a freelance designer, they would sometimes provide you with the content needed for the product if they already have it prepared.
• A common question asked to clients is “do you need new content written on your website/app?”
• Content may come in the form of word documents. Sometimes the content may be too much and it’s the job of the designer to make it accessible and digestible.
  • Could also come in the form of data tables, graphs, a PowerPoint presentation of images

Self-Generated

• This is when the designers produce the content themselves.
• Content can be written, visual, etc.
  • Iconography, images, videos, blogs, etc.

Wikipedia or other Third Party Sites

• Content that is written by users of Wikipedia or third party sites
• Because it is from users of those sites, you need to make sure they are reliable first if it is for research

User Generated Content

• When users of the app are the ones populating the site with content.
  • TikTok, Instagram, X/Twitter, YouTube
  • Can be images, short-form videos, long-form videos, captions, likes, comments, etc.
• This is also a form of design.
• Content here are shared via its users and the algorithm of the app.