We arranged a morning of guerrilla user testing to get feedback from students on our beta homepage and other online products. Going guerrilla Guerrilla user … Read more
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Content audit
A content audit is a way of taking stock of what is on your site. The outcome is a spreadsheet which lists all your content. … Read more
Unifying the user experience
Prospective students visiting our website don’t care about our departmental structures or internal wranglings. They want information relevant to them, quickly. During the alpha phase … Read more
Website redesign, beginning alpha – more discovery and experimentation
So we’ve finished our discovery phase for the website redesign project. Well we thought we had finished. And so begins the alpha phase. It’s about … Read more
We are recruiting a Product Owner!
Image: “Agile Project Management” by VFS Digital Design CC BY 2.0 The Web Development team is looking for a talented Product Owner. Full information: http://bit.ly/1cj3UxW Closing … Read more
IT representatives presentation
We were invited to give a presentation to IT representatives across the University. The presentation outlined what the Web Development Team does including an overview … Read more
Presenting at the BCS Agile Lecture Series
The Web Development team was invited to present a case study at the BCS Agile Lecture Series in Bristol on 19 March 2013, which we … Read more
Quality Assurance!
It recently struck me how putting in time and effort as a development team into quality assuring our products yields numerous benefits. For one, we get to … Read more
UX Developer vacancy
The Web Development team at the University of Kent is looking for a talented UX Developer. Full details: http://bit.ly/XMlf4f Closing date: Sunday 17th February 2013 Interviews: … Read more
Vagrant Up Kernel Panics
Recently I’ve been experimenting with using Vagrant to spin up development environments. This has been to attempt to understanding the dev ops paradigm and learn … Read more