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[last updated: December 21, 2023]
Hearing from web publishers about News and Events
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/hearing-from-web-publishers-about-news-and-events/
Between September and November 2023, we heard from web publishers around the University about their news and events content. This post summarises some of the themes that came out of this research.
[last updated: December 20, 2023]
Contributing to open-source Drupal as a non-developer – reflections and projections
Drupal is the content management system underpinning EdWeb (and EdWeb2). It’s open source meaning it’s built by the community for the community. I’ve been contributing my UX expertise to Drupal since speaking at DrupalCon in 2022.
[last updated: September 8, 2023]
Usability testing a combined navigation solution with representative EdWeb sites
We used prototypes based on two different EdWeb sites to test the usability of a navigation scheme comprising a top menu combined with a left-hand menu.
[last updated: August 21, 2023]
Evaluating the Moray House Students portlet
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/evaluating-the-moray-house-students-portlet/
As part of our ongoing exploration of how personalisation can help improve MyEd, our User Research intern Yuru Yang has written this post about how we evaluated one of our pilot projects, the Moray House Students portlet. Moray House Students Portlet The Moray House portlet is a specialized feature designed for students of Moray House. It […]
[last updated: June 30, 2023]
Navigation scheme research – using the Stanford Graduate School of Business website
As we continue to shape the navigation scheme of the Web Publishing Platform, we wanted to learn about the holistic experience of megamenus from the perspective of editors, developers and end-users. We conducted usability tests using the Stanford Graduate School of Business website and collaborated with the team behind it to understand how a megamenu […]
[last updated: June 21, 2023]
Re-establishing the UX service with the new UX team
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/re-establishing-the-ux-service-with-the-new-ux-team/
With the addition of two new team members to the UX team, we have taken the opportunity to review our priorities and redefine our ways of working to deliver the UX service.
[last updated: July 5, 2023]
Staff user research has helped shape and steer the Learn Ultra upgrade
To ensure the ongoing implementation of Learn Ultra remains as user-centred as possible, staff and students were engaged in user experience research between May and October 2022.
[last updated: April 24, 2023]
Update on the big move – rescheduling the migration
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/update-on-the-big-move-rescheduling-the-migration/
We have currently paused all our migrations from EdWeb to our new Web Publishing Platform (WPP) in order to concentrate on critical development of the platform. We are working on our rescheduling process and timeline of how and when we’ll share this with our site lead publishers.
[last updated: March 29, 2023]
Revisiting our Information Architecture Guidelines
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/revisiting-our-information-architecture-guidelines/
Building a new Web Publishing Platform for the University has presented the opportunity to re-evaluate the ways we structure and organise content in our websites.
[last updated: March 22, 2023]
Effective Digital Content training – listening to our users
We’ve spent the last year listening to our community of practice to help us to make much needed changes to the Effective Digital Content training.
