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Article — 11 August 2025 — 1,745 words

Life beyond the folder system

Digital — Information architecture — Technology — Web

On a dark background, a white folder and eight white files, progressively fading from left to right. At the right, a teal icon representing a graph is overlaid onto the final files

The folder metaphor is so intuitive to generations of computer users that they can struggle to think of any other way of using a computer. Yet for younger generations, the idea is completely alien.

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Article — 13 August 2010 — 1,433 words

Making the Student Handbook mobile-friendly

User experience — Web

Work: Mobile-friendly Student Handbook

Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. Yesterday I wrote a post about our first steps into the mobile web. Today I will look at what I had to do to make it happen. Learning about the principles The first step was to think about the […]

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