The Digital User Experience Team (formerly OneWeb) has begun a large-scale testing exercise of the new pages created to improve the experience users have with our website.
This exercise is aimed at external users and is vital in helping us understand how much the new pages have improved the experience users have with our website and to give us valuable insight into what further improvements can be made.
The testing will take place over the next few weeks and will test accessibility and function against external user needs on a range of new pages that were updated before 4 May, including:
- Staff Profile pages
- PGR
- Research groups
- Research projects
- Research centres
- Research Institutes
- Research areas
- Study pages
- Facilities (study and research)
- Overall site navigation
The content across the new pages is now more user-friendly and is tackling the huge size and unmanaged growth of our digital content that has built up over several decades. Work has included the restructuring pages, improving how information is linked with other pages, reducing the number of pages on the website and removing duplicated content. They support the ‘triple helix’ of Education, Research and Enterprise against the University Strategy.
What staff need to do – actions
As part of the work, new staff profiles and research projects pages have been designed to interconnect with education, research and enterprise content, to clearly show which staff are involved in which activities.
The new research projects pages have been created to improve the way content is displayed and linked. These pages are now managed by University staff members by making changes to their personal and project data.
It is essential members of staff who have not updated their staff profiles and Research Projects in PURE do so by the end of June. All staff pages will be redirected to new staff profile pages when the new site goes live in July.
Guidance on how to update the staff and research pages is available, including what is in scope for this phase of delivery.
Timeline
An overview of the timeline of the last phase in the project is available here:
Our university community will be kept up-to-date with how the testing exercise is progressing and next steps of the Digital User Experience project through future SUSSED posts.
Further reading:
The principles behind the design of the new products
Staff profile guidance
Research page guidance