In our February session of Content Improvement Club, publishers from across the University met up and worked together on pages from their sites. In this session, we focused on five simple things that we can all do when checking over our content. About the session Content Improvement Club is our monthly meet-up for web publishers. […]
Read moreThe User Experience Service worked with colleagues from the Library to assist with their content development work. In this post, we’ll summarise what this collaboration involved and how it helped the Library to improve their site. Aims for this work In Autumn 2025, the Library team got in touch with the UX Service to get […]
Read moreIn September, Nick and Mel from the UX team attended Assistive Technology Day, a training event organised by the Scottish Sensory Centre. Sessions focused on how technology can support deaf and hard of hearing students, with talks from educational audiologists and the JISC accessibility team. Part of our role in the UX Service is to […]
Read moreIn our October session of Content Improvement Club, we divided up into breakout rooms and worked on the same page of content. Then we came back together and compared the edits we had made. This session helped us to learn about what different editors look for when working on a piece of content. The aim […]
Read moreOn 26 June 2025, members of the UX team attended a half-day unconference organised by the Prospective Student Web team. In this post, we’ve written up some reflections on the event. This post is by Nick Daniels (Senior Content Designer), Mostafa Ebid (Digital Content Style Guide intern) and Zbigniew Kanabrodzki (Green Digital Design Intern). What […]
Read moreThis year, the UX Service have been working with the Careers Service as they review and restructure their web content. In June, we worked with Careers Service staff to run a sketching workshop that would help us to understand the expectations that students bring with them when they use the Careers Service website. This workshop […]
Read moreLast month I attended UX Scotland, an annual conference for UX professionals. This post looks at three sessions that stood out to me. This was my first time attending UX Scotland and I’ve got to say I was really impressed. The whole event was well run and there was a varied set of interesting talks […]
Read moreProspective 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. In our research project looking at staff profile pages, we’ve heard from colleagues about the most important audiences they […]
Read moreWe’ve been developing a new version of Effective Digital Content. This post looks at how this work fits into our wider approach to supporting content design across the University. About the current version of Effective Digital Content If you work with websites at the University, there’s a good chance that you’ve taken our course Effective […]
Read moreContent Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month, we looked at choosing the right words for our content so that it’s easy to find, use and understand. Our revamped content improvement meetups We recently launched Content Improvement Club, a series of meetups aimed at staff who work with web publishing at […]
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