Designing university websites
University websites: top 10 design guidelines This study from Nielsen Norman Group assesses higher education websites in four countries including the UK. This is very relevant to us, and I would encourage anyone…
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Study at St Andrews progress report: 10 and 11 February
Undergraduate content I completed the webpage for the Undergraduate Prospectus. I then began going through the Undergraduate section, sprucing it up, fixing broken links, uploading media library files and adding…
Study at St Andrews progress report: 7 February
Content migration — postgraduate scholarships I have been continuing to migrate postgraduate scholarships into the new website. A few issues have emerged, which we will hope to sort out in the next couple of weeks. We…
Study at St Andrews progress report: 5 February
Content migration – undergraduate scholarships All of the undergraduate scholarships pages have been migrated, and the fees and funding section is looking much closer to what we plan to launch with. There are still a…
Touch screen usability
How to adjust controls for touch This interesting video is a great explanation of some of the challenges we face when designing for touch screens. Over 75% of all mobile users use one digit to select options, and not…
Study at St Andrews progress report: 4 February
More content migration I have been working on migrating more content. Undergraduate scholarships have now all been migrated, and will now need to be checked. I have now moved on to postgraduate scholarships. Content…
The shift to mobile and tablet devices
When will more people visit Gov.uk using a mobile or tablet than a PC? Mobile and tablet traffic to the Admissions website almost doubled during 2013. Mobile/tablet traffic is rising all the time. But often the largest…
Study at St Andrews website – test phase progress reports
We have decided to update this blog throughout the test phase of the new Study at St Andrews website, to keep everyone up to date with our progress. Today the alpha phase launched. The website is still nowhere near…
Insights from eye-tracking studies
The 3 most surprising insights from a 200 website eye-tracking study I was surprised by some of the findings featured in this eye-tracking study. This research serves as a reminder of how young the web is as a medium,…
History of the Study at St Andrews website project
The first project of the digital communications team is a relaunch of the website for prospective students. This project began about a year ago, long before the digital communications team was formed. Lean sessions In…