Sweetening the web experience: insights from user testing
The digicomms team has started a brand new venture – user testing! During Orientation Week, we asked students their thoughts on our most recent projects.
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Google it: how users find information online
The way users move through the web is changing – are we keeping up?
Updating people pages
All of our academic Schools websites have a number of web pages that display people profile information. These web pages are automatically generated by combining data from multiple sources and applying a standard layout.
Teams, OneDrive SharePoint what is the difference?
Office 365 offers a number of different applications that can be used to save, share and organise your documents. Managing your files can get a bit confusing, after all, these applications are built on the same…
What is a PNG file?
You know what a JPEG and a GIF is, but what is a PNG file?
How to film a vlog
A vlog may seem simple to create at first, but there can be a lot of unforeseeable hurdles during production.
Optimising images for the web
When you open any web page, your device downloads all assets that populate that page. Images on web pages are also downloaded and cached to your browser’s memory. Depending on the speed of your download connection,…
What is a GIF file?
If you’ve scrolled through any social media feeds today, it’s likely you’ll have encountered a few GIF files (pronounced JIF…although personally I’m in the hard ‘G’ camp).
What is a JPEG file?
If you’ve ever moved photographs from a digital camera to a computer before, you’ll have encountered the JPEG (pronounced jay-peg) file format. These files will end with .jpg or .jpeg. What is a JPEG? A JPEG is a…
The importance of email signatures
Over the last few weeks I’ve spotted a new trend at the University. Namely, the fashion for excluding email signatures from emails. Now, I’m not talking about people I know well and who email me all the time. Nor am I…