At the end of October 2015 we had our second hackathon for Information Services. In an attempt to target a wider audience and get more … Read more

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

PhantomCSS is a great tool for quickly and easily setting up some visual regression testing, preferably on your site's pattern library (you do have a … Read more

I built a pattern library for a project I’m working on which would help developers (and me) build web pages in a consistent way, and … Read more

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

As a follow-on to our discovery phase, we had design workshops with three schools. Our previous design workshop, across central teams, was an experimental part … Read more

A content compass is made up of a core strategy statement, and a messaging framework. Core strategy statement The core strategy statement helps us provide the … Read more

There are a lot of definitions of information architecture, but put simply it deals with how content is organised, and how to lead people to … Read more

User-focussed content: simpler, clearer, less. Visual language We aim to support our brand identity by using a simpler, lighter design aesthetic which emphasises: space, bold, high quality … Read more

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