Take a break with BoB: your holiday watchlists
Congratulations! You’ve almost made it to the end of semester one. The essays are submitted, the exams are done (or …Continue reading →
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From sustainable design principles to practical W3C guidelines: Making digital sustainability happen through UX design
Contributing to the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines, I enjoyed working with talented editors and UX professionals to shape 21 guidelines in the User Experience Design category. In this post, I spotlight selected guidelines, reflecting on how they were written, and how they encapsulate the ethos of the principles behind them. The W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines […]
Read moreShaping the future of the sustainable web: The advent and development of the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines
For the past year I have been part of a UX task force developing the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines. As the guidelines reach the milestone of Draft Note status, I reflect on what they stand to achieve, and share insights from our process to make these guidelines as useful and usable as possible. Increasingly, websites […]
Read moreReflecting on a Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 Migration
In 2023, I started work on migrating three Drupal 7 websites over to Drupal 10. All three sites used a custom sub-theme based on Bootstrap 3. Each site had its own purpose, but they needed to look and feel similar. The main reason for the migration was that Drupal 7 was reaching its end-of-life.
Read moreNovember Content Improvement Club: Creating an event page that works for users
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. In our November session we covered events pages. We worked in groups to create a journey map of the information people need from an events page at different points in time. We also spent time peer reviewing events pages people had brought along. We produce […]
Read more5 things: supporting you in your exams
Semester one is almost over and exams are looming! As the exam period approaches, it’s natural to start feeling the …Continue reading →
Read moreShorthand in the New College Special Collections
by Danielle Fox, Archive & Library Assistant, New College Library Shorthand writing, also known as tachygraphy, stenography, or brachygraphy, is …Continue reading →
Read moreFrom tablets to computer screens; digitising some of the oldest texts at the University.
by Elin Crotty, Archive & Library Assistant, New College Over the past few months, the two New College Archive and …Continue reading →
Read moreAn analysis of responses to our editorial style guide survey
In October 2025, the User Experience Service ran a survey to learn about how University staff use the editorial style guide. In this post, Digital Content Style Guide Intern Hannah Watson summarises and analyses the responses. About the survey This survey focused on the usage and experience of those who have interacted with the style […]
Read moreHow do students respond to AI in an enquiry service? What we learned testing AskEdHelp
Continuing our UX research on AI features, we worked with the EdHelp team to design and run user tests to learn how students respond to their ELM-enhanced online enquiry service, AskEdHelp. This post documents our methods, findings and recommendations. The inclusion of AI in online experiences is becoming the norm, and at the University, the […]
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