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Website and Communications Blog – Page 11

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/page/11/

I joined the portal services team from September 2024 as a user research intern. ... Osh Doherty 6th March 2025As a user researcher at the University, I plan and conduct research activities to help colleagues improve the content in their websites and

Website and Communications Blog – Page 43

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This is no more true than in a university as large, old and research -focused as Edinburgh. ... And supporting our university by working in user research and experience design in Information Services right now is a challenging and interesting prospect.

Website and Communications Blog – Page 13

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He looked at carbon emissions and page weight but also examined usage of the site, with analytics data and user research . ... We acted on his findings to make the site greener and more user -centred.

Website and Communications Blog – Page 31

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there is sufficient contrast between text and background for all users , especially those with low contrast sensitivity. ... In fact, there are some perhaps surprising advantages to working remotely as a user experience practitioner.

Website and Communications Blog – Page 41

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We asked attendees how they found a User Experience Service Showcase session earlier in the year. ... research as we develop a new MyEd which is simpler and easier to use.

Website and Communications Blog – Page 39

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MyEd: using user research to organise content. ... We worked with the UX team to use card sorting studies to help us research how our student users understand and group content.

Defining the UXD process to support a user -centred web publishing platform – Website and Communications Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/defining-the-uxd-process-to-support-a-user-centred-web-publishing-platform/

Making UXD work within Agile requires some thought, since many of the activities necessary within user research (a fundamental part of UXD), including recruitment and qualitative data analysis, can take longer ... Beginning a sprint with no user research

Why we’re refreshing the editorial style guide – Website and Communications Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/why-were-refreshing-the-editorial-style-guide/

This year the User Experience Service have been working on improving the editorial style guide. ... This is in line with our previous research into how staff use the style guide.

Website and Communications Blog – Page 16

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I recently wrapped up my second semester working in the Portal Services team as a User Research Intern; it has been an amazing journey so far.

Avoiding bias when interviewing users – Lunchtime UX meetup write up – Website and Communications Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/avoiding-bias-when-interviewing-users-lunchtime-ux-meetup-write-up/

Nicola started out by mentioning that her intended audience when initially developing this talk was people already conducting user research . ... Your user ’s behaviour depends on context. 5. People are prone to bias.