Audience before artifact
Choose the format after understanding people, context, and constraints.
The Nightingale framework
We do not believe people need more information. They need better ways to understand it.
A people-centered process
Understand the audience, environment, context, needs, and communication challenge before deciding what to make.
Identify the essential message, remove unnecessary complexity, and shape content around what people need to know and do.
Create communication that is visually engaging, readable, accessible, and suited to the channels where people will encounter it.
Give people information they can understand and use—supporting confidence, informed decisions, and a clear next step.
What this changes
That shift helps prevent communication from becoming a data dump, a design exercise, or a checklist of facts.
Choose the format after understanding people, context, and constraints.
Make the main idea and desired action obvious before styling the page.
Prioritize the information people can act on instead of trying to include everything.
Put the framework to work