Working alongside the Digital Marketing Team, we have managed to reduce the page weight of the University’s homepage, www.ed.ac.uk, so that it produces 13 less tonnes of CO2 per year.
About me Hiya! My name is Zbigniew, a fourth year undergraduate student doing Product Design at the Edinburgh College of Art. This summer I joined the ranks of the UX team as Green Digital Design Intern, to build on the foundation created by the previous sustainability intern, in order to: improve the University’s web estate […]
Research from the Role of Profiles project revealed what staff require from online profiles. In a series of two ideation workshops, the UX team worked with staff across the University to consider possibilities for a new profiles provision.
About me Hi! I’m Mostafa, a second year undergraduate student studying computer science at the University of Edinburgh. I am also the Digital Content Style Guide Intern working in the UX team to: understand how publishers use the style guide when editing content propose improvements to the guide explore new ways of applying style guide […]
We’re estimated to save 25 tonnes of CO2 annually because of better web design choices. And that’s just the start…
Last month I attended UX Scotland, an annual conference for UX professionals. This post looks at three sessions that stood out to me.
On the 5th June, I had the privilege of presenting at the annual UCISA Sustainability Conference titled ‘Will New Technology Help or Harm the Planet?’. Here’s a run down of how it went.
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month we ran the session in-person at Edinburgh Futures Institute. We focused on when to use tables, potential alternative layout options and how to make tables more accessible – if you do need to use them.
As the UX Service begins our next digital sustainability initiative, it was timely to pull together insights from our recent work for ideas on ways to reduce the environmental impact of digital content.
The LOUISA project has recently conducted a second round of user research with students to identify problem areas in the in-course assessment and feedback process.
