Six months ago I joined the Web Development team at the University of Edinburgh. I know Drupal well, but I also know it’s like a huge bag of Lego bricks, its power lies in how those bricks have been assembled, and every codebase assembles them differently. Testament to those who came before me, EdWeb 2 […]
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. In January, we ran two sessions focused on writing alt text and making images accessible.
Extra! Extra! The great Argyle House clear has out has concluded! In preparation for our upcoming move to Forest Hill, WAC conducted a clear out of our storage spaces. A process that revealed a generous interpretation of the phrase “this might be useful”. In hindsight I think the decision to leave the clear out decisions […]
Back in November (yes, I know — this post is fashionably late), I attended Drupal Camp Scotland on 7th November 2025. It was a full day of interesting, insightful and genuinely useful talks. From the moment I arrived, greeted by friendly faces over morning coffee – there was a strong sense of community. As my […]
How can people trust AI-generated content? Designing provenance data into our prototype AI searchbot
As AI-generated content becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of trust emerge, prompting a growing need for transparency about the creation of digital content. As part of an academic study, I designed and prototyped ways to display provenance data for synthetic content made by an AI searchbot on a University website.
Let’s get acquainted Hello! I am Dono, a fourth-year Government, Policy, and Society student. In my role as Green Digital Design Intern on the UX team, I work on projects that integrate user-centred design and sustainable digital practices, with the goal of helping the University meet its net-zero targets by 2040. In November, I took […]
In this post, Digital Content Style Guide Intern Hannah Watson examines the research and existing guidance that have supported our work on the University’s style guide.
We celebrated the first year of EdWeb 2 with an event for the EdWeb 2 community on Tuesday 13 January 2026. In this blog, I revisit our event planning and event highlights, and offer key takeaways from the presentations as a recap for those who joined us and an update for those who couldn’t make it – hope we’ll see you next time! Planning a birthday party for a web platform We started brainstorming content for […]
The User Experience Service worked with colleagues from the Library to assist with their content development work. In this post, we’ll summarise what this collaboration involved and how it helped the Library to improve their site.
In September, Nick and Mel from the UX team attended Assistive Technology Day, a training event organised by the Scottish Sensory Centre. Sessions focused on how technology can support deaf and hard of hearing students, with talks from educational audiologists and the JISC accessibility team.
