Category: UX
Research 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.
About me Hi! I’m Mostafa, a second year undergraduate student studying computer science at the University of Edinburgh. I am also the Digital Content Style Guide Intern working in the UX team to: understand how publishers use the style guide when editing content propose improvements to the guide explore new ways of applying style guide […]
Last month I attended UX Scotland, an annual conference for UX professionals. This post looks at three sessions that stood out to me.
The LOUISA project has recently conducted a second round of user research with students to identify problem areas in the in-course assessment and feedback process.
The LOUISA team engaged with more students to validate earlier findings and ensure representation from a wider range of student groups
How to write a staff profile page that meets the needs of prospective postgraduate research students
Prospective 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.
Hearing from 40 academic and professional services staff across various Schools and business units revealed why some groups of staff underused profiles compared to others and provided insights into the relative needs and preferences of different groups of staff.
Thousands of staff have a profile on the University website, yet many more don’t. Through interviews with staff, the Role of Profiles project sought to find out why, and to establish needs and requirements for profiles. This blog post documents reasons and use cases staff shared for having a University web profile.
Content in University staff profiles plays a dual role in highlighting the achievements and important work of University employees and showcasing the institution as a centre of excellence. A profiles project sought to learn what staff needed from their online profiles. This post collates insights into profile content requirements, based on what staff shared in […]
Research for the Role of Profiles project found that many University staff profiles were out-of-date. Interviewing staff about their current processes for creating, updating and deleting profiles identified the work required to keep profiles current, and surfaced areas of good practice as well as opportunities for improvement.
