We work with purpose-driven organisations to make brilliant things happen.
Strategy
We build solid content strategy foundations that make you effective, agile and connected.
Content
We build engaging, multi-platform, content-centric products with purpose at their core.
Tools and systems
We design and embed an ecosystem of brilliant tools, structures and systems to turn you into a smooth content machine.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace UK needed a clear, useful guide to how to communicate through their content. We made them an online content style guide.
ActionAid International
ActionAid International needed a new website. The brand needed modernising. Their content needed to be better.
Fundraising Regulator
We needed to shape the user experience and the new website so that people can find what they’re looking for quickly and intuitively.
“Contentious bring a rare combination of digital and editorial skills and expertise to the business of communications. They get to the heart of an organisation’s relationship with its users.”
Thoughts, tools and resources
Ten website pitfalls to avoid
Making an organisation website is tricky. Remaking one seems as if it should be easier but often isn’t. In fact it’s usually harder. These are ten holes we often find people have fallen into.
Taking a thematic approach
There are many ways to organise your bookshelves: alphabetical by author, by size, by the colour of the spine, by whether you want it to appear behind your head on a video call…
The speeding up of slowing down
There’s a widespread assumption that speed is always important. But there’s a whole world of content where efficient information transfer isn’t the end goal.
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