When the team behind the health and wellbeing website contacted the UX Service for help improving their student-facing content ahead of the new academic year, we were happy to oblige. Adopting a coaching approach, we guided them through usability testing to identify and prioritise content changes, to make it easier for students to find out […]
This Disability History Month (20 November – 20 December 2025) we reflect and learn how to be more inclusive as digital citizens and shape an accessible future for technology. During December, we encouraged students across campus to reflect on their online accessibility basics and take digital citizenship seriously with the latest digital safety info poster (poster text […]
Over half a year has flown by since I joined the Information Services Group, and I cannot believe that my internship has come to an end. I have had the opportunity to help get the Open Textbook Creation Service going from its initial stages, and seeing the fruits of my labour has been particularly exciting recently.
Contributing to the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines, I enjoyed working with talented editors and UX professionals to shape 21 guidelines in the User Experience Design category. In this post, I spotlight selected guidelines, reflecting on how they were written, and how they encapsulate the ethos of the principles behind them. The W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines […]
For the past year I have been part of a UX task force developing the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines. As the guidelines reach the milestone of Draft Note status, I reflect on what they stand to achieve, and share insights from our process to make these guidelines as useful and usable as possible. Increasingly, websites […]
Nicky’s Highlights An Insider’s Guide to InDesign and What’s New Presented by Vinay Pahlajani and Pranjal Bhatnager from Adobe’s InDesign product team, this session showcased the latest InDesign features and shared best practices for improving workflow efficiency and supporting stronger team collaboration. I particularly enjoyed learning about placing images in grids on a layout, the […]
With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, it’s time to find the right recipe to bake cookies and sweets and please family and friends. But, there’s one kind of cookies that lives all year long, mostly in the devices you use to access the internet. If you give this permission explicitly. In the University of Edinburgh, […]
It is International Human Rights Day, so we are exploring what human rights have to do with digital safety, wellbeing and citizenship. Are the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sufficiently covering a changing digital world? How can we use human rights to become better digital citizens? And is digital inclusion a human […]
A lot of the time IT services are supporting users – that is, students and teaching staff – or work quietly in the background to assure systems and infrastructure are in good shape and fit for purpose. In my own role I rarely have an opportunity to see what happens “on the ground”, in the […]
In 2023, I started work on migrating three Drupal 7 websites over to Drupal 10. All three sites used a custom sub-theme based on Bootstrap 3. Each site had its own purpose, but they needed to look and feel similar. The main reason for the migration was that Drupal 7 was reaching its end-of-life.
