Category: UX
Continuing our work to help the Careers Service make their website more user-centred, the UX Service ran a session to map the stages a PhD student typically goes through when they interact with the Careers Service, to help us work out the role of web content at different stages of the flow.
Building on the success of UX24, an in-person conference organised last year in collaboration with UCISA, we’ve now confirmed an exciting programme of speakers for a new hybrid event happening on Thursday 11 September. Tickets are available now, free for University staff as part of our institutional UCISA membership.
The UX Service recently concluded a project to research staff requirements improve University staff profiles to meet the needs and requirements of staff. In this post, I share my reflections from running such a wide-ranging, interesting and important project for the University.
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 […]
Research from the Role of Profiles project revealed what staff require from online profiles. In a series of two ideation workshops, the UX team worked with staff across the University to consider possibilities for a new profiles provision.
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 […]
Last month I attended UX Scotland, an annual conference for UX professionals. This post looks at three sessions that stood out to me.
The LOUISA project has recently conducted a second round of user research with students to identify problem areas in the in-course assessment and feedback process.
The LOUISA team engaged with more students to validate earlier findings and ensure representation from a wider range of student groups
How to write a staff profile page that meets the needs of prospective postgraduate research students
Prospective postgraduate research students are an important audience for many academic profile pages. In this post, I look at some practical steps that academic staff can take to make their profiles more useful to this audience.
