A Year in four months – Part III – Research is the university’s core
Over the last few months, the OneWeb Research team (Andrew Lamb, Andrew Larcombe, Jo Caley, Maya Wiseman, Neil McWhinnie and Richard Lakin) were...
A year in four months – Part II – The digital building blocks
Digital platforms should provide reusable building blocks to deliver common services. There are more common service types than you’d imagine...
A year in four months – the end of the beginning of OneWeb
Imagine a world where university content is connected, easy to find and follow. Imagine a world where our course (programme) pages are easy to...
What we’ve learned from doing a design sprint
A few weeks back we did a design sprint for ‘Become an undergraduate student’ undergraduate course pages. What is a design sprint? In a...
The user holds the trump card
It’s been just over a month since our OneWeb teams assembled. In that time, our user researchers have met lots of people, seen lots of work going...
Chaos is a ladder – the unspoken truth of OneWeb
On the eve of the Games of Thrones finale, we thought it would be fun to reflect on what we think of the OneWeb philosophy and how it reflects the...
OneWeb: from website to digital services
Some of you would have heard us talking about the objective of OneWeb, to “fundamentally transform the University’s approach to its external...
How to deliver something big and complex
You may have heard us talking and referencing ‘Agile’ many times. You can tell that we believe that working in this way is a good thing, but you...
Content Design – a user-focused approach to creating and managing content
The Digital Team darkened the doorsteps of many a lecture theatre over the last fortnight, coming together to explore the ins and outs of good...
Crawl visualisations for southampton.ac.uk
Visualising our website Thanks to Jo Caley (aka SEO Jo) and Rayne Prendergast, our Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) specialists, for putting this...