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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…
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…
Of all the things that made a comeback in the last year, I did not expect QR codes to become so relevant again.
We have recently revamped the University’s module catalogue to take advantage of a number of Funnelback features, delivering a more sophisticated search algorithm and returning higher quality results. In this blog…
Setting up a project correctly is an important but often overlooked phase of any project. Successful intranet-redesign projects start before sketching, feature selection, or coding.
We have been using software called cues.ai from a company called Twenty Thousand Leagues, since April this year. When students view a course page, the software prompts students with a question ‘are you interested in…
“Developers have a greater impact on user experience than designers do”, Paul Boag claims in his Why performance is the best way to improve the user experience article, and that “non-visual elements on a webpage can…
Content creators often get stuck thinking too much about what the organisation wants to say rather than what their users want to know.
I recently read Paul Boag’s blog post on ‘Content Management: How to effectively overcome legacy content’. In this article, Paul focuses on the negative consequences of poor content management and how to find solutions…
Online forms can be complicated to complete. How can we make it easy for users to know which fields have to be filled in and which ones are optional? An article by the Nielsen Norman Group recommends that all fields…