On 13 November the UX Service team attended the second Scottish Web Folk event hosted by the Web Services team at the University of Dundee. The conference included a day of sessions on varied web-related topics, with something for everyone in the team to take away.
As we reach the end of a long and complex migration of website content from our Drupal 7 platform, EdWeb 1, to Drupal 10, EdWeb 2, we are reviewing our lessons learned and will adjust our approaches to reflect on them. One key insight was the volume of outdated website content in the platform. This […]
The 2nd conference for the Scottish Higher Education Web and Digital community took place a few days ago, hosted by the University of Dundee. This event is extremely popular and relevant with teams across our University, to the point that there was a “special” pile of lanyards with the label “Edinburgh” on top, beside the […]
I valued the opportunity to hear from and speak with other Drupal enthusiasts from Scotland and beyond when the University hosted DrupalCamp Scotland, a one-day event on 25 October 2024 organised by the local Drupal Association.
Earlier this year, I had the privilege of recruiting more Web Content Design Assistants to the UX Service to assist the move to EdWeb2. As we near the end of the migration project, it is timely to reflect on how this team has evolved, what they have achieved and what’s next.
Earlier this week, Emma Horrell, User Experience Manager, and I travelled to Cambridge to attend the annual Digital Leaders meeting, hosted at the University of Cambridge. Janus Boye has been organising and facilitating similar meetings for several years, and there were some very interesting discussions related to leading and managing digital services and products. My […]
The UX Team are involved with a new project that will optimise Learn Ultra for assessment and feedback.
MyEd is a key part of the student experience at the University of Edinburgh, particularly at the beginning of a new academic year. Our analytics data can help us understand what services and actions are important to students at this crucial time. How do students prepare for the new academic year? Securing accommodation is a […]
As part of the ongoing EdWeb migration, the User Experience (UX) team have been working alongside developers to identify any usability issues with migrated functionality before release. These issues can then be prioritised and addressed in future updates.
Over the last few months, we’ve been working on a project where a group of new students received additional information in MyEd, to help new students complete key tasks and to try and ease their transition into university life. The project was run by the Induction and Pre-arrivals team (PAI), with input from the Communications […]
