One link on Gov.uk – 350,000 more organ donors Here is a fascinating article from the Government Digital Service about A/B testing, where different users are shown different versions of a page so that you can see which…
While we were very busy as we approached the end-of-February deadline for the new Study at St Andrews website, our daily update posts fizzled away. But I wanted to write about one further update that I made, because it…
The students have now gone on their spring vacation. Soon colleagues too will be slipping away for a break, leaving you alone in the office. If—like me—that’s going to leave you on your own at your web team HQ to look…
User-centred design The University of Kent web development team blog outlines their perspective on user-centred design and the agile development process. This is a great overview of the concept. This article makes it…
It’s not dumbing down, it’s opening up Here is another great video from the Government Digital Service, this time outlining its approach towards using plain English throughout the website. The big one, and the one I…
Global navigation is less useful on large, complex websites Here is a thought-provoking article about global navigation. We made the decision to remove the University’s global navigation menu from the Study at St…
As you probably know, we’re big fans of Trello here in the web team. We have a number of project boards, overseen by one master, everything-we’re-doing™ board called @Web team. It currently has 24 columns (or lists)…
After over 12 months of hard work from a lot of people, we have finally launched the new Study at St Andrews website, the replacement for the Admissions website. It has been a long and interesting journey. From the…
This morning I logged into UniDesk, our IT Service Desk incident management system, and noticed that the calls assigned to me next to the calls assigned to the whole web team read: 1337. That’s so 1337! (Using…
Should I use a carousel? In case you were still in doubt…