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.
The LOUISA team engaged with more students to validate earlier findings and ensure representation from a wider range of student groups
We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post provides information about how to access the new course and what it covers.
How to write a staff profile page that meets the needs of prospective postgraduate research students
Prospective postgraduate research students are an important audience for many academic profile pages. In this post, I look at some practical steps that academic staff can take to make their profiles more useful to this audience.
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month, we focused on staff profiles: how to make them more useful, engaging, and accurate. We looked at what makes a good profile, shared practical tips, and reflected on our own pages. The advice here applies whether your profile sits within EdWeb 2 or […]
Hearing from 40 academic and professional services staff across various Schools and business units revealed why some groups of staff underused profiles compared to others and provided insights into the relative needs and preferences of different groups of staff.
Thousands of staff have a profile on the University website, yet many more don’t. Through interviews with staff, the Role of Profiles project sought to find out why, and to establish needs and requirements for profiles. This blog post documents reasons and use cases staff shared for having a University web profile.
