Design systems help reduce digital carbon emissions
Explore the relationship between digital sustainability and design systems, highlighting how they can work together to reduce carbon emissions.
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Unlocking website optimisation: a comprehensive tool comparison
We explore some of the top tools that can refine websites for peak performance to improve user experience, enhance SEO rankings, and ensure accessibility.
User-driven design: improving the website user journey
We ran user tests on our study and subjects webpages to understand how the structure and information could be improved.
Laying the foundations for the University of St Andrews Design System
How the insights from Andrew Couldwell’s Laying the Foundations have helped the University to create its own design system.
Revolutionising web content management: introducing ‘guides’
The Digital Communications Team has embarked on a project to transfer much of the University website content into ‘guides’ to address potential reputational risks and compliance issues that have arisen over time.
Developing custom blocks for WordPress
The team have been developing custom blocks to make creating and editing posts and pages easier.
Switch to Gutenberg block editor
In 2018, WordPress released the Gutenberg block editor, which provides predefined blocks to allow users to build custom page layouts and content without any coding knowledge. What is Gutenberg? WordPress released the…
Updates on the University of St Andrews Design System
The University of St Andrews is undergoing a transformative journey in digital design, marked by the development of a next-generation design system and pattern library for our website.
Scottish Web Folk
The Digital Communications team popped along to the Scottish Web Folk conference and enjoyed a day discussing the latest trends and challenges in web development and digital strategy with web professionals from across…
When to avoid accordions on web pages
Before implementing accordions in your design, consider these five scenarios. It might be better to present your content in a more accessible way.