We’ve just launched our shiny new R&D section of the Jisc website. I wrote a post about it for the main Jisc blog. Let us know what you think.
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Author: Ben Whitehouse
I'm head of web at Jisc. My team manages jisc.ac.uk and other web services. I'm responsible for ensuring the overall user experience of the Jisc web estate is simple, clear and consistent
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Happy 1st birthday, Jisc website
We launched the current Jisc website on this day last year. My, how the time has flown. This is a little reminisce about the highlights and challenges of last year, plus a look forward to the next. Highlights Keeping it pure(ish) You know the score: you agonise over redesigning a website around user needs only […]
The team are at the Jisc Digital Festival #digifest14 which starts tomorrow, Tues 11 March, in Birmingham. We’re going to set up camp in the Hangout where we hope to recruit some user testers for our next round of web development plus get face-to-face feedback on the website from the main people who we built […]
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Transforming R & D
We’re about to start the next major piece of development work on the Jisc website: transforming the research and development (R&D) section. The relaunch of the website this summer focused on our ‘market-ready’ products and services, advice and corporate information. We excluded R&D from phase 1 because of the size and complexity of the current […]
OK, we are launching the new Jisc website NOW Bit of a complicated procedure as the site is now run from 2 platforms. We have launched part of the site on the new platform (the shiny new bit you can see at www.jisc.ac.uk). There might be a delay until certain parts of the site running […]
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Becoming responsive
From the start, we wanted the new site design to be responsive. It was a no-brainer for us as a busy team to want to maintain one site and one set of content and not have a separate mobile site, as we had done previously. It is also a better experience for the user who […]
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Designing the Jisc website
With the research done, principles in place and content arranged, it was time to design the new Jisc website. From the whiteboards … First and foremost, we wanted to put ourselves in our users’ shoes. What do they need? What might engage them, help them or frustrate them as they navigate our site? Armed with […]
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Towards a new Jisc website
Jisc watchers will know that the organisation is going through a major reorganisation at the moment. There’s loads of information about this on the Jisc website so I won’t attempt to badly summarise it here (the news article, “JISC announces new structure to reshape for the future“, is a good place to start). The new […]
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Services section revamp
We’ve revamped the Services section of the JISC website. As well as improving the look and feel, we’ve tried to make it easier to browse the range of services that JISC offers and quickly identify the services offered by our principal providers, such as JISC Advance or Edina. The content and structure of each service […]
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5 month roundup
Tumbleweeds rolling through this blog the last few months. No coincidence really that my last post coincided with the departure of Kerry from the team, bringing the grand total to … well, me. So it’s been firefighting, stopping things falling off the website and covering Kerry’s role as best I could these last 5 months, […]