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Cooking up the language of a design system
If you’ve ever built, or even used, a design system before, you’ll be familiar with components and patterns. These are the pieces that are assembled together and make up the larger product which end users interact with. Patterns (sometimes known...
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"You're come to Miron place" - An invisible change with a big impact
As a platform development team, we don’t just add shiny new features to our applications. We also spend time improving on the features and functionality that we already have. The most visible example of this in recent years has been...
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Landing pages of hope and glory
Permission to land In July 2017, based on the feedback the team has received over the past year, we made the decision to improve our landing pages. What we now have is the culmination of an intensive project with major...
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Maintaining your WordPress website
About WordPress You may be wondering what WordPress even is. I'll give you a clue... you're looking at it right now (unless you've received this post to your inbox of course). In their own words: "WordPress is open source software...
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Fear the Walking Devs
Intro Picture the scene. You find yourself in a room with a handful of fellow human beings, waiting. You’ve all been through this before and you’ll go through it all again many more times - if you’re lucky. The other...
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A Close-Knit Team — My First Month in the Digital Development Team
Getting to know the team Starting a new job in a different company always means an opportunity to adapt to a new culture and processes. I have been able to adapt quite well thanks to the support of my team...
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"The right tool for the job" - Evaluating UX prototyping tools
What is a prototyping tool anyway? In basic terms, modern software design can be broken down into a few distinct areas; design, front-end development, and back-end development. If you're someone who is great at all three then congratulations, you are...
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Authenticity isn’t a trick
Why taking the time to identify with your subject matter is never a waste of time. Talking the talk A recent sprint spent editing and rewriting postgraduate recruitment emails has got me thinking about the emails we all receive from...
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Remodelling the blog header
How we ended up with two different headers In 2017 we commissioned an external agency to build us a theme for blogs.bath.ac.uk, our WordPress multisite. The header was based on the look and feel of our site at that time:...
