Category: Content design
On 26 June 2025, members of the UX team attended a half-day unconference organised by the Prospective Student Web team. In this post, we’ve written up some reflections on the event.
In May 2025, the User Experience (UX) Service continued a programme of user research for the LOUISA project by testing how easily students could use a prototype course in Learn to complete key tasks relating to assessment and feedback. This research helped prioritise areas for improvement. Previous student research and input from staff helped inform […]
Continuing our work to help the Careers Service make their website more user-centred, the UX Service ran a session to map the stages a PhD student typically goes through when they interact with the Careers Service, to help us work out the role of web content at different stages of the flow.
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.
Last month I attended UX Scotland, an annual conference for UX professionals. This post looks at three sessions that stood out to me.
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.
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 […]
