Posts

  1. Universities as an area

    Research with providers about placement schools

  2. Make it easier to find university courses

    How we model university locations makes finding courses less likely

  3. Updating Cookie policy and banner

    Design changes and implementation of cookies

  4. Find as of December 2019

    A snapshot of the service at the beginning of the 2020 recruitment cycle

  5. Closing search for the end of cycle

    Now Apply is closed, disable search until the new cycle begins

  6. An end of cycle notice

    Tell users which year’s courses they are searching

  7. 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

  8. Financial incentives

    Changes made to the financial incentives logic for courses with multiple subjects

  9. 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

  10. Choose how to apply – Iteration and research

    An updated journey into UCAS or new Apply service, tested with users

  11. SEND survey and updates

    Research and findings into courses with a SEND specialism

  12. Choose how to apply

    User journey into UCAS or new Apply service

  13. Maps for providers with many partner schools

    Finding out what does good look like for providers with many partner schools

  14. Iterate course titles

    Make it easier to differentiate between search results

  15. Static failover service

    If we had to provide a site without any dynamic features, how would it look

  16. Special educational needs (SEN) filter

    SEN is a subject, but also not a subject. Any subject could have an SEN focus.

  17. Showing a map in the filters column

    Clarify where a user is searching on the list view

  18. Results on a map – Text on labels

    A further map iteration

  19. Results on a map – User research 18 October

    A combination of the full screen and original design

  20. Results on a map – Full screen iteration

    Second pass at showing courses on a full screen map

  21. Results on a map – Full screen

    First pass at showing courses on a full screen map

  22. Results on a map – Early design with tweaks

    Map based on code written during alpha/private-beta with some recent tweaks

  23. What we launched – 2 October 2018

    Our live public beta launch

  24. PGDE and further education courses

    We quickly iterated fixes to correctly indicate qualifications on these courses.

  25. Subjects, bursaries and SKE courses

    An iteration on the MVP, with full course pages and a subject filter with bursary and SKE information

  26. Just the UCAS data – 25 July iteration

    Tweaks to the minimum viable service including improved subject selection

  27. Just the UCAS data

    What an absolute minimum viable service might look like

  28. Folded courses research 8 June 2018

    Testing study options in search results and on the course information page

  29. Private beta

    The private beta was a reduced version of the alpha, focusing on a single subject – business studies

  30. UCAS teacher training (search)

    Screenshots of the UCAS service that Find replaced

  31. UCAS course examples

    Examples of courses on UCAS search

  32. Alpha

    Experimental designs