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
Tag: user needs
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
Team hack sprint: user needs and the SLIM web editing tool
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
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
The University of Kent Student Guide Timetable
The webdev team spent a lot of time over the summer building a timetable app for the University of Kent Student Guide. We could’ve built … Read more