Now in its third year, the annual Scottish Web Folk conference was organised and hosted by the brilliant Web Services team at the University of Dundee on 30 October. Nick, Katie and Emma from the UX Service enjoyed attending and delivering presentations. Here, they reflect on their highlights from a brilliant day of learning and […]
The UX Service launched a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course in May this year. You can read about how we built the new version of the course in previously published blogs: Our six-part series on building the Effective Digital Content course Six practical tips: what we learnt building a new online […]
This month we have deployed some more updates to MyEd, the University’s web portal. These are the latest in a series deployed as part of this year’s MyEd upgrade project. Keeping things up to date The infrastructure that MyEd uses needs to be kept up-to-date and secure as well as the applications that make up […]
On 30 October, I was delighted to attend Scottish Web Folk at the University of Dundee. This was the second time I’d attended this particular conference – you can read about my previous experience here: Scottish Web Folk 2024: A portal practitioner’s perspective Generative AI was a major theme from both suppliers and institutions There […]
In our October session of Content Improvement Club, we divided up into breakout rooms and worked on the same page of content. Then we came back together and compared the edits we had made. This session helped us to learn about what different editors look for when working on a piece of content.
About me I’m Samad Ali, a Computer Science student in my penultimate year of university. Over the summer I was working as a Web Content Supervisor Intern alongside Li Ren Chin, with the Web Content Interns Star Gu, Anthony Skerik and Sean Craigmile. The 5 of us were also working as Web Content Migration Interns […]
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month, we focused on how to make web content easier to use by applying a nine-step editing process called ‘Editing that works’.
In January, the UX team spent a day ideating on how to apply Drupal AI to University web content management and built a prototype including an AI-powered search feature. But would students find it useful and usable? Preliminary UX research revealed useful insights.
Over the last 2 years, I have been conducting important research which delves into the complexities encountered by our University community when seeking a website. By pinpointing key challenges and collaborating with University staff, the Website and Communications team have been rethinking our approach to web governance. This blog sets out the key steps in […]
Over the last year, alongside my colleagues in the User Experience (UX) Service I’ve been writing and developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content (EDC) online course – which is now live. You can read more about this work in our blog series: Part 1: Developing our Effective Digital Content online course Part […]
