Content Design & UX Strategy

Content is
architecture.

The words aren't decoration. They're the structure. When content is designed — not just written — people find what they need, understand what they see, and trust what they read.

The Practice

Three things.
Done right.

01 — Design

Content Design

Interface language, error states, empty states, microcopy, flows. Every word a user reads is a design decision. We make those decisions deliberately.

02 — Strategy

UX Strategy

Information architecture, content models, taxonomy. The structural decisions that determine whether your product makes sense or makes people work.

03 — Research

Design Research

Watch what users do, not what they say they do. Usability testing, content audits, card sorts, tree tests. Evidence over opinion.

Approach

How the work works.

01

Surface the content.

Users don't scroll to discover. They navigate to find. Semantically hierarchical pages beat linear scrolls because findability beats aesthetics.

02

Prioritize what users seek.

Content architecture should reflect what people are looking for, not what the organization wants them to know. User intent drives hierarchy.

03

Observe, don't ask.

We watch what users do. Usability testing reveals behavior. Surveys reveal opinion. The gap between the two is where design problems live.

04

Words are interface.

A button label is a design decision. An error message is a moment of trust. A heading is a navigation affordance. Every word either helps or hinders.

05

Context is navigation.

OOUX and contextual navigation patterns let users move through content by meaning, not just by menu. Objects in context. Relationships visible.

About

Bill Dorman.

Content designer and UX strategist with deep roots in making complex systems understandable. The kind of person who reads a 400-page interface and finds the three words that were lying.

Semantic Circuit exists because content design is not copywriting. It's architecture. It's the structural decisions that determine whether a product works for humans or works against them.

content design ux strategy design research information architecture OOUX
Semantic

Meaning-first. Structure derived from what things mean, not where they sit on a page.

Circuit

Connected paths. Content flows through systems. When the circuit is complete, users move without friction.

Connect

Start with a conversation.

Every good project starts with understanding. Tell me what you're working on.