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Ideas from UX London

By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 12 March 2025

What? UX London was a conference on user experience design, i.e. how we can design products/services/systems for users to have meaningful and pleasant experiences using them. The incentive was that within ARC, we have little experience in designing our products and with an increasing number of web projects which are not just intended for internal/researcher-only […]

Creating Custom Font Symbols

By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 5 June 2024

Why? There are various reasons why researchers may want to include custom symbols to a font; they may want to represent a new concept or add characters from historical sources that are not available in a font yet. Being able to do so makes their work more accessible to colleagues and the public. In the […]

Customising Rich Text Editors

By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 5 June 2024

Why? Customising rich text editors within web apps offers significant benefits, particularly for researchers in Digital Humanities. While basic text editors fulfil essential functions, rich text editors (RTEs) can incorporate features such as rich text formatting and customisable styling, allowing for clearer and more engaging presentation of textual information. Whilst they provide greater benefits than […]