Category: User experience

Over the past year, we’ve been exploring a new visual language and defining UX (user experience) principles to evolve Kent’s online user experience. The exploration has developed based on … Read more

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

What do users want from the University website? What message is the University trying to convey to those users? How can the University convey that … Read more

Design is about making technology work for people. This article outlines one of the core design principles that we want to adopt for the University … Read more

Building an inspiration board is a key part of the discovery phase. Inspiration boards help you think about what solutions other people found to similar … Read more

User-centered services consist of a series of phases. I’ve already written about the discovery and alpha phases. The next in the series is the beta … Read more

This is the second in a series of posts about the development of any user-centered service. The first post was about the discovery phase. This … Read more

We have started doing ‘guerilla user testing’ for various projects. No, we are not performing animal experiments (although that is debatable 🙂 ) As designers, … Read more

We’re on the lookout for 8 people from around the University of Kent to help test some of our websites. And we’re giving out £5 Blackwell’s … Read more

The core notion behind the development of any user-centered service (for example, a website) is the notion of a lifecycle of phases: discovery, alpha, beta, … Read more