The official University Instagram account has an audience of 20,000 followers, 44% of whom are aged between 18 …
Friday 15 March 2019
The meeting formerly known as ‘DAB’
The Digital Advisory Board (DAB) has been replaced with the Digital Forum. The Digital Forum will take place on the last Wednesday afternoon of each month. All staff are welcome to attend. The format of the Digital Forum will be presentations, discussions and workshops. The Digital Forum will continue to provide updates on digital …
Monday 4 February 2019 Articles and resourcesLatest posts
We’ve previously written about common content mistakes made on the web, but we thought it would be a …
Tuesday 12 March 2019
The digital communications team is running two design sprints to help us improve the ‘My Courses’ portal for …
Monday 11 March 2019
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The digital retrospective summary
On Wednesday 27 February the digital communications team hosted the first Digital Forum. The aim of the session was to gain an understanding about how colleagues experience digital services and technology on a daily basis throughout the University. This post covers what happened at the forum, and some initial findings from the retrospective.
7 March 2019Digital Forum
Why we use YouTube instead of Vimeo
Based on advantages provided by YouTube, we have decided to no longer upload new video content to our Vimeo channel. All new content will be uploaded to the University of St Andrews YouTube channel.
4 March 2019Social Media
Improvements to accordions
Frequent users of the University website may have noticed a visual change to the accordion patterns. We have applied some much needed improvements to the accordion pattern in line with the design methodology of GOV.UK. Problems with the old accordions Use of colour The old accordions used our primary blue as an accent colour. This colour…
19 February 2019Digital pattern library