The Role of Profiles project produced 10 recommendations for an improved University profile provision. To start actioning these, I assembled a working group of specialists and drew on UX design principles – implementing practical prioritisation while seeking innovative solutions that addressed the research findings.

On the last weekend of February, I made the trip to Salford for DrupalCamp England 2026. It is only its second year, but already an event I have found myself looking forward to returning to. I came away with a notebook full of ideas, some genuine food for thought about the direction of AI, and […]

Six months ago I joined the Web Development team at the University of Edinburgh. I know Drupal well, but I also know it’s like a huge bag of Lego bricks, its power lies in how those bricks have been assembled, and every codebase assembles them differently. Testament to those who came before me, EdWeb 2 […]

As AI-generated content becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of trust emerge, prompting a growing need for transparency about the creation of digital content. As part of an academic study, I designed and prototyped ways to display provenance data for synthetic content made by an AI searchbot on a University website.

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.

This summer, Digital Content Style Guide Intern Mostafa Ebid integrated ELM into EdWeb2 in a Generative AI tool aimed at helping web publishers prepare content. He tested it with a sample of participants to make an initial assessment of the user experience it provided in the context of assisting them with web publishing tasks.

In March this year, I was asked to join the Drupal leadership team, to bring my UX knowledge and expertise both to Drupal’s newest product, Drupal CMS, and to Drupal core. I reflect on six months of contributing to an open-source community in a leadership position.

Throughout my internship, I’ve had the chance to meet many different publishers from across the University and through all kinds of interactions – whether in user interviews, unconferences, user testing, or just in daily life. It’s been incredibly insightful for me to learn how publishers work, the processes they follow, and the pain points they […]

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 […]

I joined the annual Boye & Co end-of-winter meeting to share and discuss issues and trends in digital leadership and content management with other professionals from digital industries. I shared our work experimenting with AI in Drupal and learned about opportunities and challenges in the digital sector.