Tag: UX

How can we better meet the needs of the University and its users? The first stage for our website redesign is to understand business and … Read more

Over the past year, we’ve been exploring a new visual language and defining UX (user experience) principles to evolve Kent’s online user experience. The exploration has developed based on … Read more

We want  simplicity in design. Space between elements on a page should be elegant and purposeful. Typography should be beautiful and easy to read. How … Read more

Design is about making technology work for people. This article outlines one of the core design principles that we want to adopt for the University … Read more

Building an inspiration board is a key part of the discovery phase. Inspiration boards help you think about what solutions other people found to similar … Read more

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

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