The new website for news and media was launched on 7 June 2018. The new website provides a number of enhancements over the old site. For example: news can be …
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Design sprints
To help improve the development of the University website, we have begun implementing the methodologies of ‘design sprints’ into our process. Our friends over at the University of Dundee were so kind to include some members of the digital communications team in their very own design sprints. We have found them to be very …
Monday 16 July 2018 | Articles and resources
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In order to inform the design of the new University of St Andrews research section, the digital communications team wanted to establish what the top tasks were for users of …
Thursday 9 August 2018
Mhari Nimmo completed a four-week internship with the digital communications team. You can read about her experience in her own words below. Four weeks ago, a month seemed like an …
Tuesday 7 August 2018
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New global contact page
On Tuesday 31 July 2018, the digital communications team launched a new general contact page in our updated style to assure future accessibility for users. This post looks at some of the changes we’ve made.
Tuesday 31 July 2018 | External website redevelopments
IWMW 2018: Let’s improve our training
Recently, I attended the IWMW(Institutional Web Management Workshop) 2018, a UK-wide conference for anyone working in digital in higher education. Roughly 150 delegates attended from all over the UK and Ireland. Every university’s digital team provides training for their internal …
Friday 27 July 2018 | IWMW
Scheduling social media posts
Graduation week is always one of the busiest and most important times of the year for the digital communications team and our colleagues across Corporate Communications. Both the University website and the social media channels see a significant increase in …
Wednesday 25 July 2018 | Social Media
