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DrupalCon Lille 2023 – A UXer’s perspective

Since presenting at DrupalCon in 2022 I have been contributing to Drupal’s marketing and usability initiatives. Returning to speak at DrupalCon 2023, I wanted to share what I’d learned, do some hands-on activities and encourage the community to apply UX principles to all things Drupal.

Emma Horrell 20th December 2023 0

All killer, no filler: 5 content things

Once in a while it’s good to have an honest look at your content. Here are 5 content things you can do to get it into shape.

Ariadne Cass-Maran 5th April 2022 3

Content Audit Findings and the 100k Challenge

If you are involved in managing or updating content for a university website, we need your help. In order to provide a better online experience for everyone at the University of Edinburgh, we’re calling time on out-of-date and low quality content across all of our websites. Our content urgently needs some care and attention In […]

Milo McLaughlin 3rd June 2021 1

Develop your digital content and user experience skills at the Digital Skills Festival

Website and Communications are hosting three events as part of the University’s first Digital Skills Festival.

Duncan Stephen 14th May 2021 0

We’re hiring a Senior Content Designer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Content Designer to join the Website and Communications team as we embark on major projects to launch the new University web publishing platform and services.

Duncan Stephen 29th April 2020 0

Join our team as a Content Designer

We are looking for three experienced Content Designers to join the Website and Communications team as we embark on major projects to launch the new University web publishing platform and services.

Duncan Stephen 30th January 2020 1

The impact of microcopy

The UX team have recently been helping to ensure an upgraded EASE offers an improved user experience. In this post I tell the story of how we redesigned the interface – focusing heavily on microcopy – and the outcomes of doing so.

Andrew Ferguson 9th August 2019 2

Better content, fewer support calls: improving the card process for new students

As part of our collaboration with IS Helpline, we worked to improve the web content on getting your first student card – and saw the support calls on this topic nearly halved.

Lauren Tormey 15th November 2018 1

Sprinting to improve online learning websites

Over the summer we worked to improve the quality of web provision for prospective online learners. In this post, we recap the project process we followed and outcomes.

ljsmith 12th October 2018 0

Straight from the horse’s mouth – focusing student support web content

We’re currently doing some work to support the Student Experience Services Communications (SES Comms) project, and as part of this, we’ve been reviewing the Personal Tutors and Student Support Officers (PTs and SSOs) website.

rbhanda2 30th May 2016 3

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