Category: Project activities
Including upcoming sprints, reflection on progress etc
I recently ran an open invite usability review for our latest round of usability testing. Normally I run these sessions within our team, but we wanted to involve colleagues across the University in our work to improve the editorial experience. It was also an opportunity for school editors to see the new degree programme editorial […]
We’re running an open invite event on Microsoft Teams to share what we learned through staff engagement and user research about the University’s flexible study options. This includes the part-time intermittent (sometimes called ‘Invoiced at Course Level’) route to a postgraduate award and its overlap with other flexible study options. Join us to learn more […]
Join us on Wednesday 22nd January to watch school editors using the new degree programme editorial interface.
We’ve recently finished development on our postgraduate programme content types for the new degree finder. We are now sharing a preview of the different sections, guidance and formatting for them.
I recently facilitated a series of workshops to redesign content that explains the postgraduate research (PGR) applying process. This process is complex, but these workshops gave us space to work through the content in detail and, crucially, draw on the subject matter expertise of our user researcher.
This blog is part of a series on a mini-project the Content Operations team completed in August and September 2024. In this instalment, I review my approach to usability testing for new postgraduate funding content, highlighting what I would do differently if I could do it over again with a little less time pressure.
This blog is part of a series on a mini-project the Content Operations team completed in August and September 2024. In this instalment, we will talk about the project background, research, and user needs. For more information on the other stages of this project, see our individual blogs: Improving student understanding of postgraduate funding and […]
I recently ran an open invite session review for our latest round of usability testing. Normally I run these sessions within our team, but we wanted to involve colleagues across the University in our work to improve the editorial experience. It was also an opportunity for school editors to see the new degree programme editorial […]
We recently started work on a project to explore the presentation of the Invoiced at Course Level route to study for a postgraduate award. This user research and business analysis piece will help us understand how to best present this route to study in future.
We audited postgraduate study website content this summer and worked with colleagues responsible for it to follow our audit findings around consolidating and improving our web estate.