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
WEB DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – starting Spring 2014!
WEB DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – starting Spring 2014! THIS OFFER IS NOW CLOSED – We have found a new Web Development Manager! For more info on … Read more
Course pages for schools – let the users decide
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
User testing – £5 Blackwell’s gift voucher!
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
User-centered services – the discovery phase
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
User-centered web design
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
New Web Developer Role – starting early 2014!
Do you enjoy developing and improving web sites and applications? Would you relish the challenge of creating excellent user experiences for potential and current students? … Read more
Team hack sprint: user needs and the SLIM web editing tool
Open Day – learning about our users
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?
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