Posts
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Universities as an area
Research with providers about placement schools
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Make it easier to find university courses
How we model university locations makes finding courses less likely
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Updating Cookie policy and banner
Design changes and implementation of cookies
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Find as of December 2019
A snapshot of the service at the beginning of the 2020 recruitment cycle
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Closing search for the end of cycle
Now Apply is closed, disable search until the new cycle begins
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An end of cycle notice
Tell users which year’s courses they are searching
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Performance report - May 2019
After 4 months of transitioning providers from UCAS course management to DfE course management, this report focuses on the candidate facing tool and what sorts of behaviours have been coming out of our analytics
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Financial incentives
Changes made to the financial incentives logic for courses with multiple subjects
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Performance report - March 2019
We’re 6 months into this year’s recruitment cycle and, for the first time, the Department has data on how candidates are searching for courses
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Choose how to apply – Iteration and research
An updated journey into UCAS or new Apply service, tested with users
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SEND survey and updates
Research and findings into courses with a SEND specialism
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Choose how to apply
User journey into UCAS or new Apply service
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Maps for providers with many partner schools
Finding out what does good look like for providers with many partner schools
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Iterate course titles
Make it easier to differentiate between search results
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Static failover service
If we had to provide a site without any dynamic features, how would it look
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Special educational needs (SEN) filter
SEN is a subject, but also not a subject. Any subject could have an SEN focus.
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Showing a map in the filters column
Clarify where a user is searching on the list view
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Results on a map – Text on labels
A further map iteration
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Results on a map – User research 18 October
A combination of the full screen and original design
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Results on a map – Full screen iteration
Second pass at showing courses on a full screen map
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Results on a map – Full screen
First pass at showing courses on a full screen map
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Results on a map – Early design with tweaks
Map based on code written during alpha/private-beta with some recent tweaks
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What we launched – 2 October 2018
Our live public beta launch
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PGDE and further education courses
We quickly iterated fixes to correctly indicate qualifications on these courses.
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Subjects, bursaries and SKE courses
An iteration on the MVP, with full course pages and a subject filter with bursary and SKE information
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Just the UCAS data – 25 July iteration
Tweaks to the minimum viable service including improved subject selection
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Just the UCAS data
What an absolute minimum viable service might look like
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Folded courses research 8 June 2018
Testing study options in search results and on the course information page
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Private beta
The private beta was a reduced version of the alpha, focusing on a single subject – business studies
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UCAS teacher training (search)
Screenshots of the UCAS service that Find replaced
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UCAS course examples
Examples of courses on UCAS search
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Alpha
Experimental designs