Progressive web applications
What exactly is a progressive web app (PWA)? Google defines a PWA as being: “built and enhanced with modern APIs to deliver enhanced capabilities, reliability, and installability while reaching anyone, anywhere, on any…
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Digital communications team update – May 2021
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for May 2021.
What does a Careers Centre website need?
The Digital Communications team started a redesign of the Careers Centre website in January 2021. The first phase of this project aimed to find out what users needed from the Careers Centre. To this end, we carried out…
What is a minimum viable product?
We recently read a great article from Paul Boag on this topic, which inspired this post: Minimum viable product (MVP). What is it and why should you care?.
Digital communications team update – April 2021
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for April 2021.
Keep email newsletters simple
Email newsletters overflow everyone’s inboxes. They are often very brand focused and their designs are intended to be flashy and eye catching as if someone handed you a leaflet on the street.
5% time
For a number of years, the digital communications team has reserved an afternoon per two-week sprint. The idea for this stemmed from Google’s 20% policy where Google reportedly allowed employees to spend 20% of their…
How Web 3.0 will impact higher education
The birth of the internet is considered to be 1 January 1983 – since its inception, the internet has rapidly evolved and spread across the world to impact all aspects of our lives. How will its current development…
The information scent of links
When looking at links on a web page, how do you decide which one will take you closer to your goal? You’ll choose the one with the highest information scent – the link with relevant terms and context that you think…
2020 social media review
I do not need to summarise what kind of year 2020 was, we are all too familiar with the events of the past 12 months. We are now three months into 2021, so it might seem a bit late to be reviewing social media from…