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

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

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

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

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

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

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