We’ve created a new spotlight panel that now replaces the old profile spotlight panel. It can also be used for news and events. We were … Read more
New course pages launched
Over the past few months we’ve been working with the Digital Team in central Marketing to improve how we promote our courses online. We’ve updated … Read more
Feedback on website changes
We received feedback from three 1st-year students about our upcoming website changes. This included the homepage, course page and course help concept page. Deciding to … Read more
Upcoming website changes
It’s been three years since we released our ‘new’ design. Alongside that we have also been developing Site Editor (the university’s content management system). In … Read more
ContentEd 2019
Making the user experience seamless for students is a challenge at Kent. This is both for online and offline services. And it needs to be … Read more
A new approach to organising student content
You may have read our posts on how we’ve been looking at restructuring our content for students and staff. This is also a part of … Read more
User testing summary – updated course page
We investigated providing stronger upfront help and easier contact points to prospective students in the updated design. We also tested out visual and usability improvements. … Read more
Accessibility testing for the Kent website
Making anything good to use has to take into account the needs and abilities of lots of people with different needs and abilities. Accessibility testing … Read more
Beginning our discovery into the student online experience
The initial focus of the website redesign was to help recruitment and marketing. We’ve worked to get our course and academic school pages updated. The … Read more
My thoughts on IWMW 2018
I have again been fortunate enough to attend the Institutional Web Management Workshop, also known as IWMW this year, along with colleagues from our team … Read more