Back in November (yes, I know — this post is fashionably late), I attended Drupal Camp Scotland on 7th November 2025. It was a full day of interesting, insightful and genuinely useful talks. From the moment I arrived, greeted by friendly faces over morning coffee – there was a strong sense of community.  As my […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

It seemed as if the rock and castle assumed a new aspect every time I looked at them, and Arthur’s Seat was perfect witchcraft. I rambled about the Bridges and Calton Height yesterday, in a perfect intoxication of the mind. Washington Irving, an American writer and author of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’, wrote this […]

Working alongside the Digital Marketing Team, we have managed to reduce the page weight of the University’s homepage, www.ed.ac.uk, so that it produces 13 less tonnes of CO2 per year.

About me Hiya! My name is Zbigniew, a fourth year undergraduate student doing Product Design at the Edinburgh College of Art. This summer I joined the ranks of the UX team as Green Digital Design Intern, to build on the foundation created by the previous sustainability intern, in order to: improve the University’s web estate […]

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 […]

We’re estimated to save 25 tonnes of CO2 annually because of better web design choices. And that’s just the start…