Improving the University’s course pages
With over 200 courses available, prospective students, parents and teachers come to our website to find out what St Andrews has to offer.
Search by category: design
Anything related to web design, but not usability (that’s another category) unless there’s overlap.
Jakob’s Law
Jakob’s Law is a principle of user experience design. It states that: Users spend most of their time on other sites
Design to avoid catastrophes when accidental touches happen
People vary. Their particular needs and capabilities, and their environments, influence how they interact with the websites and apps we design for them.
Offline first
One of the biggest challenges we face is to ensure that our websites continue to work on all manner of devices. To meet this challenge, many web developers have adopted a mobile first design process. The core principle…
Should icons be solid or hollow?
Icons are everywhere in graphic and web design. They’ve become second nature to how we interpret tasks and actions for interacting with physical and digital interfaces. However, just because they are widely used…
Introducing the new design system
The University of St Andrews design system and the accompanying new pattern library, that it supports, aims to build upon the success of the current digital pattern library (DPL).
Three invisible design decisions that are more important than you think
Good design is invisible, if it functions well and serves it’s purpose then the world can live in harmony.
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.
Bad UX design fails
The internet is a wonderful place. It is a modern library of all knowledge, the epicentre of human creativity, and the source of horrible user interface patterns that create an infinite amount of frustration.
Accordion icons
An accordion is a content block that can be expanded to reveal hidden information, usually to shorten the length of a page that contains large amounts of text. Accordion icons differ greatly across the web, either in…