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Nov 6

A better usability severity scale

Friction, Frustration, Blocker, Disaster In an ideal world, usability and accessibility testing would be baked into every project plan from the start, and we’d all do multiple rounds of test-iterate-test before releasing anything. In reality, this is beyond the capacity of many teams due to things like limited resources or…

Usability

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A better usability severity scale
A better usability severity scale
Usability

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Jun 18

UX Scotland 2023: my highlights

Another cracker of a conference 👌 I bloody love UX Scotland. What could beat 3 full days catching up with my local tribe, getting to know friendly UXers from all over the world, enjoying talks, workshops, yummy food and free massages, all in the gorgeous setting of Holyrood Park? …

Conference Takeaways

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UX Scotland 2023: my highlights
UX Scotland 2023: my highlights
Conference Takeaways

5 min read


Feb 28, 2021

Imposter syndrome in user centred design, and how to beat it

I surveyed 100 user centred designers. Here’s what they said. In this post Context What is imposter syndrome? Survey results: some basic breakdowns (lots more charts on Flourish) How to beat imposter syndrome: loads of advice from survey respondents Conclusion Context A couple months back, a young member of the UX Glasgow meetup suggested…

Imposter Syndrome

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Imposter syndrome in UCD, and how to beat it
Imposter syndrome in UCD, and how to beat it
Imposter Syndrome

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UofG UX

·Dec 19, 2019

Moving on

I’m leaving the University of Glasgow after 11 years on this beautiful campus. Turns out December is a good time to go as everyone’s in the mood to party! I’ve had so much fun over the last couple weeks, catching up with and saying cheerio to my old teams in…

UX

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Moving on
Moving on
UX

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UofG UX

·Nov 7, 2019

Can we save a million minutes?

Time=money, so let’s save people’s time I’m working my notice period at UofG and thinking about how the momentum of the last couple years might be maintained. So far, through a range of grassroots projects, we’ve raised the University’s UX maturity from stage 0 to stage 2: In 2017, the…

UX

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Can we save a million minutes?
Can we save a million minutes?
UX

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UofG UX

·Jul 18, 2019

UX Scotland 2019: my highlights

I really REALLY looked forward to this conference. I loved last year’s and got loads out of it: ideas, contacts and tons of motivation. This year’s programme was incredible: with the range and quality on offer, sometimes it was so hard to choose a track that I ended up tossing…

UX

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UX Scotland 2019: my highlights
UX Scotland 2019: my highlights
UX

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UofG UX

·Jul 12, 2019

UX Scotland 2019: team write-up

This year, UofG sent more staff than ever before to Edinburgh for UX Scotland, the annual conference for UX, service design and digital communities. We were 7 strong, including staff from Information Services and the World Changing Glasgow Transformation programme — go Team UofG! ❤ Here, 2 of our delegates…

UX

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UX Scotland 2019: team write-up
UX Scotland 2019: team write-up
UX

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UofG UX

·Apr 15, 2019

Redesign 1 webpage, save £54,000

Our task-focused staff homepage has saved the University a ton of time and money. — A year ago, we redesigned the 3rd most visited page in the University of Glasgow website — the MyGlasgow Staff homepage — around its users’ top tasks. With 8,500 staff clocking up 1.5 million views a year on a page that was largely unchanged since its launch in 2015, this…

Analytics

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Redesign 1 webpage, save £54,000
Redesign 1 webpage, save £54,000
Analytics

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UofG UX

·Mar 29, 2019

Routes into Moodle

We watched 11 people log into Moodle and saw 11 different journeys. Background Moodle is the University of Glasgow’s browser-based virtual learning environment. It’s our hub for course resources, assessment, staff/student communication and staff training. It’s also our largest and most widely used system, with: 11,000 courses 15,000 active users per…

Edtech

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Routes into Moodle
Routes into Moodle
Edtech

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UofG UX

·Mar 18, 2019

Bursary benefits

How my UCISA bursary has helped me — and my Uni — to grow Last summer I got to go to San Francisco for UX Week 2018, thanks to the UCISA bursary scheme. The trip gave me a huge boost of confidence in my potential as a user experience professional…

UX

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Bursary benefits
Bursary benefits
UX

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Kat Husbands

Kat Husbands

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User researcher, content wrangler, UX Glasgow co-host, fishkeeper, AFOL

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