Category: Editorial style guide
Our Editorial Style Guide contains many conventions and we know from research that publishers struggle to remember to apply them. Could automation help? We experimented embedding style guide rules into a Drupal module that checked content against the rules in the editorial interface and suggested corrections when the rules weren’t followed.
AI development keeps evolving as do the ways people seek to use AI. Traditional software development runs the risk of trying to perfect AI features people won’t use. Revisiting our previous AI research helped me tease out new opportunity spaces for AI features to help with content design tasks.
AI tools to support content tasks are becoming more and more widespread. As part of my contributions to open-source Drupal I’ve been researching how to prepare and package content design and style rules that these tools can use effectively.
This year the User Experience Service have been working on improving the University’s editorial style guide. Nick Daniels, Hannah Watson and I have blogged about previous aspects of this work: Why we’re refreshing the editorial style guide An analysis of responses to our editorial style guide survey Reviewing and rewriting the formatting section of the […]
In this post, Digital Content Style Guide Intern Hannah Watson examines the research and existing guidance that have supported our work on the University’s style guide.
This year the User Experience Service have been working on improving the editorial style guide. For context, Nick Daniels has written about why we embarked on this project: Why we’re refreshing the editorial style guide Our Digital Content Style Guide intern, Hannah Watson has also written about the results of the survey we conducted to […]
In October 2025, the User Experience Service ran a survey to learn about how University staff use the editorial style guide. In this post, Digital Content Style Guide Intern Hannah Watson summarises and analyses the responses.
This year the User Experience Service have been working on improving the editorial style guide. In this post, we outline what this work has involved and what’s coming up next.
In December 2020 we transformed the Editorial Style Guide from a PDF to a website. We wanted to make sure that what we created was both useful and usable, so we approached staff to take part in usability testing.
This is a story about a revolution in the sphere of University content. Not a noisy revolution, but an important one, involving major changes to one of the best tools we have for preparing written content – the Editorial Style Guide.
