Category: User Experience & usability
Reports and narrative about research and development around usability and accessibility, including our own work as well as others’
As we have reached a break in the development of EdWeb, now is the time to look at our old and new Content Management Systems objectively. I’m looking for colleagues to help me do this. If you have experience of both Polopoly and EdWeb, and can spare an hour or so, you can get involved.
With so many changes going on as part of the EdWeb migration project it’s almost inevitable that some users will end up on the University’s 404 error page.
Over the next few days we will begin the process of tidying and restructuring the EdWeb content tree.
We’ve had a few enquiries about the homepage carousel feature in EdWeb which we’ve strongly advised website managers not to use at present. In this post I want to explain the current situation, what our plans are, and why you’re probably better off without a carousel feature anyway.
In early June, the UX Scotland conference was held for the third time in Edinburgh. I was there once again, this time joined by a newer member of the LTW team – Jonah McLachlan. In this post we highlight what for us were the best sessions, and link to some of the resources now available.
I visited the Scottish Government offices at Leith last week to meet with the Head of User Experience and get a look at how their project is progressing.
I’m going to attend the annual Higher Ed web managers conference (IWMW 2015) in July, and will be contributing a 3 hour ‘masterclass’ – their term, not mine! – on how to conduct usability testing in an agile project.
The UX Scotland conference is happening in Edinburgh again next month. It’s a great opportunity on the doorstep for anyone involved in user experience design, research and management, and I’m really pleased to be attending again this year.
At this month’s session we got our first glimpse of how forms will look in EdWeb as well as hearing about the developments for viewing EdWeb on small screen devices and website search enhancements.
During March we undertook some user research with University staff and students to look at how they interact with the new website design on small screen mobile devices. I presented our findings and what we’re going to do with them at last week’s Web Publishing Community session.
