Category: User Experience & usability
Reports and narrative about research and development around usability and accessibility, including our own work as well as others’
The UX service recently helped the New Students team run their own usability test on an updated version of their website.
At the University of Edinburgh, MyEd is a crucial tool central to the lives of both students and staff. From personal and professional experiences, I’ve observed how integral MyEd is to daily activities. Throughout the academic year I worked on the usability of the student MyEd portal to try and integrate and understand the student […]
What is the Notifications Service? The Notifications Service is a solution which delivers personalised notifications and emergency notifications. As explained in our recent blog post, we have been rewriting the Notifications Backbone primarily to ensure that it is safe and secure, however we have used this as an opportunity to introduce some improvements both for […]
Exploring sustainable UX design to reduce the University of Edinburgh’s digital carbon footprint – insights from my first month as a Green Digital Design Intern
About me My name is Nenna Nwawudu and I’m a 5th year MMath Mathematics student at the University of Edinburgh. I recently wrapped up my second semester working in the Portal Services team as a User Research Intern; it has been an amazing journey so far. I’ve had the exciting opportunity to work with and […]
This month we hosted the second of our new Content Improvement Monthly meet-ups at Argyle House – it was great to see everyone who attended and really interesting to hear about different experiences of managing long content pages. For those who haven’t heard about Content Improvement […]
On Tuesday 17 September 2024 people from educational institutions across the UK will gather in Manchester for a day of talks, workshops and networking on the theme of challenges and opportunities of UX in Education. Tickets are now on sale if you would like to join us.
What is the Notifications service? In the Portal Services team, we look after MyEd and Notifications. The Notifications Service is a cross-system solution for personalised notifications and emergency communications. Tasks and alerts about critical information can be sent by or received from different systems and sources across the University and then distributed by the […]
Drupal is the Content Management System behind EdWeb 2 (and also EdWeb). As a Drupal contributor I’ve been working with others in the community to help improve the clarity of the language used within Drupal, to make it more accessible and inclusive.
Accompanying the move to Edweb 2, the UX Service have been running and piloting some new sessions to train and upskill colleagues in content design practices.
