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Category: Musings

User-centered web design

By Matthew Bull | 02 February 2014

The past couple of years the webdev team has done a lot of work to shift away from (what we see as broken) waterfall development … Read more

Team hack sprint: user needs and the SLIM web editing tool

By Matthew Bull | 15 November 2013

This was a 3-day team hack event, with a couple of days added on for user interviews. We won’t be building on the code we … Read more

Open Day – learning about our users

By Jonathan Thirlwell | 29 October 2013

As a part of getting to know our users, Product Owner, Lauren Marsh and myself attended Undergraduate Open Day at Canterbury (http://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/visit/). The purpose was … Read more

Building a browser policy: who cares?

By Matthew Bull | 21 October 2013

Web developers live in a bubble. In this bubble people know and care what a browser is. There’s a rather well-known google video demonstrating just … Read more

The design process: taking a coursera.org course on design

By Matthew Bull | 12 May 2013

The webdev team recently welcomed Jonathan Thirlwell as our UX developer. This role is an entirely new one for our team, and for web development … Read more

UniKent WebDev Links of the Week: jquery nested, enquire, vagrant, emmet, backbone

By Matthew Bull | 07 April 2013

Here’s some stuff I found, used, played with over the last week or so. All the below can of course be found on GitHub too. … Read more

Controlling time with the command line

By | 20 September 2012

In his last post, Matt told us about his time management setup using Things and the Pomodoro technique. This featured things like “GUIs” and “iPads”. … Read more

Controlling time with things and tomatoes (Things2 and Pomodorable)

By Matthew Bull | 17 August 2012

Today I’m writing about how I’m trying to keep control of all the work stuff I have to do with a mix of the Things … Read more

Mobile comes first: responsive web design in a mobile world

By Matthew Bull | 22 July 2012

The rise of mobile The University of Kent, like many UK universities, now has a dedicated student-focussed mobile app. It’s great, and early indications are … Read more

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