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Content creation; content presentation (user experience design)

In the content creation process phase, the content is created first, the information product itself not yet. The results of the preceding planning process phase are an essential prerequisite for content creation. The results of the concept development process phase must be taken into account when creating content.

The content creation process phase includes all tasks that are necessary to determine, create and store the information. This includes content such as texts, graphics, tables, safety instructions, animations, films, audio or sensor technology.

The content creation process phase also includes the integration of existing or supplied content, quality assurance and localization or translation.

Thanks to the possibilities offered by new technologies, separation of content and output media has become the rule. Content created in a media-neutral way can be used for different output media. The result of content creation is converted into an information product in the subsequent process phases of media production and publication and distribution, which is made available to the user.

Tools for creating content

Special tools are used to create content, depending on the media types and target formats to be created.

In the following process phase of media production, content is integrated into an information product.

Text editors
  • Software for text creation (e.g. also markdown editors)
Component content management systems
  • Software for component content management systems (CCMS)
  • Storage formats (XML, proprietary formats)
DTP programs
  • Software for desktop publishing
  • Storage formats (XML, proprietary formats)
  • Automation options
Tools for the creation of PDF files
  • Softwareforcreating and editing PDF files
Help Authoring Tools (HAT)
  • Software for the creation of online help
  • Tools for versioning content, including role and rights management in software development
  • Storage formats (XML, proprietary formats)
Language technology
  • Fundamentals of speech technology (applications, challenges and limitations, sub-areas of speech technology; architecture of speech processing systems)
Linguistic software
  • Text checker (e.g. spell checker and controlled language checker)
  • Terminology databases and tools
  • Translation tools, Computer Aided Translation (CAT), Translation Memories (TM), Machine Translation
  • (MT)
  • Software localization tools
Graphic and image editors
  • Software for editing graphic and image files and their basic functions (e.g. color modification, cropping, clipping, masking, preparation for transfer to publication systems)
Tools for recording screenshots and screen sequences
  • Software for creating screenshots and screen recording and its basic functions and modes of operation
Component content management systems (CCMS)
  • Differences between component content management systems and document management systems
  • Prerequisites for the introduction of a component content management system
  • Process of introducing a component content management system (phases, implementation and change management)
  • Work packages and tasks for the introduction of a component content management system (e.g. system and provider selection, creation of specifications, internal preparations, data migration, standardization specifications, system adaptations, process adaptations, system introduction, training)
  • Benefits, advantages and disadvantages of component content management systems, conditions for efficient use, assessment of cost-benefit ratios
  • Tools for component content management
  • Administration of component content management systems
  • Structure and components of CCMS, working principles
Animation programs
  • Software for the creation of 2D and 3D animations
Video editors
  • Software for editing films and its basic functions (e.g. color change, cropping, masking, preparation for transfer to publication systems)