Building on the success of UX24, an in-person conference organised last year in collaboration with UCISA, we’ve now confirmed an exciting programme of speakers for a new hybrid event happening on Thursday 11 September. Tickets are available now, free for members of the University as part of our institutional UCISA membership. In my role co-chairing […]
Read moreIn this post conservator Amy Baldwin talks about working with the University of St Andrews to help develop their new …Continue reading →
Read moreThe UX Service recently concluded a project to research staff requirements improve University staff profiles to meet the needs and requirements of staff. In this post, I share my reflections from running such a wide-ranging, interesting and important project for the University. The Role of Profiles project ran from January to July 2025, led by […]
Read moreIn my second month as the DLAM Digital Accessibility Intern, I’ve been contributing key accessibility and UX improvements to an open-source sheet music application. This blog describes how a GenAI workflow helped fast-track my understanding of Python coding, and allowed me to make impactful changes to an open-source project, through a process I call “Educated Prompting”.
Read moreTo add to our recent schedule of conference reports, last month several members of our team attend the Scottish Confederation …Continue reading →
Read moreWorking alongside the Digital Marketing Team, we have managed to reduce the page weight of the University’s homepage, www.ed.ac.uk, so that it produces 13 less tonnes of CO2 per year. Implementing the change As part of the wider EdWeb2 update, the university’s homepage has undergone changes to improve its performance and reduce its environmental impact. […]
Read moreI attended the online CALC25 [Critical Approaches to Libraries] Conference from 13 – 15 May 2025. The programme, slides and …Continue reading →
Read moreOn the first day of July this year I had the pleasure of attending this year’s Higher Education Marketing Conference, run by HE Professional. It was a day packed with insights about higher education marketing from industry leaders, with a good mix of p…
Read moreAbout me Hiya! My name is Zbigniew, a fourth year undergraduate student doing Product Design at the Edinburgh College of Art. This summer I joined the ranks of the UX team as Green Digital Design Intern, to build on the foundation created by the previous sustainability intern, in order to: improve the University’s web estate […]
Read moreResearch from the Role of Profiles project revealed what staff require from online profiles. In a series of two ideation workshops, the UX team worked with staff across the University to consider possibilities for a new profiles provision. As part of a project on profiles, a programme of research activities including system analysis, a survey […]
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