Two weeks ago, Paul Boag, co-founder of digital consultancy Headscape and author of Digital Adaption gave a lecture to staff at the University. Titled ‘Digital change’, the talk outlined how digital has changed the…
Interface writing: Code for humans Microcopy, or interface writing as Nicole Fenton calls it, is the small bits of text that make a user interface – the text used in buttons, notifications, links and so on. This is…
‘Hey, you there’: the trouble with audience-based navigation Gov.uk shared something very interesting about their experience with audience-based labels in their webpages. They found that people do not always identify…
This is part of a series of reflections on this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop. So far the posts have looked at themes surrounding digital transformationand organisational change. Read an introduction and…
From Google Ventures: 5 rules for writing great interface copy We have been talking recently about content design, the idea that content is not merely written; it needs to be crafted. (The Government Digital Service…
When we redesigned the University website in 2008 we adopted the Blueprint CSS framework which greatly cut down our CSS development time. It offered us a solid, cross-browser compatible foundation on which to build our…
It has been a busy few days in the digital communications team as we work hard to get the new Study at St Andrews website ready by the deadline of 3 March. Content audit I spent the second half of last week going…
Introduction On Wednesday 20 November 2013 I flew from Edinburgh to Dublin for TerminalFour’s (T4) sixth annual global user conference, T44U. Or as I preferred to call it: T44Me. While there were more attendees this…
Throw out your website’s specification Paul Boag argues that creating a website specification up-front is not the correct way of going about a web project: …they are often presented to the development team (either an…
Anyone can add. It takes a professional to take away It is tempting to think that adding content to a website is harmless. After all, the marginal cost of adding another webpage is almost zero. Except that the more…