Author: Emma Horrell
Content Designer User Experience and Digital Consultancy Website and Communications Learning, Teaching and Web ServicesWith the addition of two new team members to the UX team, we have taken the opportunity to review our priorities and redefine our ways of working to deliver the UX service.
The latest phase of Learn Ultra research investigated the staff and student experience, with a focus on Learn Ultra courses, to guide the next phase in the upgrade.
To ensure the ongoing implementation of Learn Ultra remains as user-centred as possible, staff and students were engaged in user experience research between May and October 2022.
In preparation for moving to Learn Ultra it was important to find out staff and students’ experiences of actually using Learn Ultra courses. This insight is guiding the continuing development and iteration of Learn Ultra has helped the project team identify areas of improvement.
Sites on the new Web Publishing Platform will have a megamenu instead of the left-hand menu currently in EdWeb. This shift has implications for the way content is structured and presented in University sites. We’ve developed a tool to help visualise and tweak megamenus in EdWeb sites.
Building a new Web Publishing Platform for the University has presented the opportunity to re-evaluate the ways we structure and organise content in our websites.
Since testing the megamenu concept, we have been developing this component as part of our approach to website navigation in the new Web Publishing Platform
We’re hiring a Senior Content Designer and a User Experience Research Specialist in the UX and Digital Consultancy team. Come and work with us!
Drupal is an open source content management system which underpins EdWeb, the new Web Publishing Platform and the Design System. I was lucky enough to have a talk proposal accepted at DrupalCon Prague 2022 and learned lots more about Drupal by attending the three-day event.
Drupal is the main content management system used at the University, underpinning the bulk of our web estate. As a speaker at DrupalCon Prague 2022, I was able to share how we’ve worked with Drupal to develop the editorial interface of the new Web Publishing Platform, as well as learn more about this important system.
