A green digital design internship hosted by the UX Service in summer 2025 prompted us to consider how digital housekeeping could support the efforts of the Careers Service team to streamline their website. In the process, the Careers Service emerged as admirable case study, promoting the benefits of combining both UX and digital sustainability for […]
Read moreFor the last year, the User Experience (UX) Service has supported the LOUISA project with a programme of UX research activities aimed at understanding problems with the current experience of assessment and feedback from student and staff perspectives and identifying potential ways to improve it. Here, I consolidate the work that led to the recommendations […]
Read moreThis week we deployed some more updates to MyEd, the University’s web portal. These are the latest in a series deployed as part of this year’s MyEd upgrade project. Users may not always see any visible difference, but these changes are essential to make sure that the technology MyEd runs on is up-to-date and secure. […]
Read moreAs part of a programme of user experience (UX) research activities for the LOUISA project, the UX Service worked with University staff with experience of assessment and feedback to gain their input on proposed workflows for text-based, media and group assignment submissions. These workflows had been drawn up based on findings from earlier research. LOUISA […]
Read moreThroughout my internship, I’ve had the chance to meet many different publishers from across the University and through all kinds of interactions – whether in user interviews, unconferences, user testing, or just in daily life. It’s been incredibly insightful for me to learn how publishers work, the processes they follow, and the pain points they […]
Read moreThe Academic Support Librarians are a learning team, who have attended professional development events in line with the prioritised themes …Continue reading →
Read moreIt seemed as if the rock and castle assumed a new aspect every time I looked at them, and Arthur’s Seat was perfect witchcraft. I rambled about the Bridges and Calton Height yesterday, in a perfect intoxication of the mind. Washington Irving, an American writer and author of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’, wrote this […]
Read moreThe Interactive Content team used ThingLink to create interactive learning materials for two Careers Services projects: ‘Skills For Success Framework’ and ‘Riding the Wave’. They chose ThingLink for its ability to add interactivity to graphics and its ease of embedding into EdWeb. The team collaborated with the Graphics Design service to create engaging and accessible content using ThingLink’s scenes and tags features.
Read moreOk, well not totally meaningless. But it certainly isn’t always the untouchable source of truth that is often perceived to be. Throughout my “Green Web Platforms” internship I have focused so much on trying to find data. Data on energy usage, energy grid carbon intensity, and equipment manufacturing, to be ultimately used as the ingredients […]
Read moreHi, I’m Hera, the Data Visualization Intern working on the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Data Dashboards. Before getting into this internship, data had already been a fundamental part of my life. As an undergraduate student studying Psychology and Linguistics, statistics is part of the core of what we do. We’ve been taught how […]
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