Over the years, we have made a variety of different tools to help us and our colleagues in Scottish Enterprise’s digital teams.
These range from Miro templates to how-tos and digital widgets. But, until now, they’ve been scattered across a range of different places – Github Pages, Codepens and on posts in this blog.
So this is an attempt to gather them together in one place. We hope you’ll find them useful.
Good Services scale
An interactive version of Lou Downe’s Good Services scale. No downloads, no software or Google/Microsoft account required. Just enter your observations and see where you need to focus.
Measure your service’s performance
URL text fragment link generator
A tool that will create a link that will scroll to and highlight any text you specify on a web page.
Especially useful if you want to direct people to a particular section on a very long page.
Alt text decide-o-matic
A little decision tree will help you understand how best to include text alternatives for image-based content.
Its’s based on the W3C’s alt text decision tree.
Get help choosing how to add alternate text
Safelinks URL decoder
A little web app that untangles the URLs provided by Microsoft’s Safelinks service to give the original URL.
Recover the original URL from a Safelinks link
Miro templates
Miro story map with synced table
As you do your research, compile the user needs you discover in a Miro table. When you’re ready to start building, instantly convert the table to a story map so you can plan your releases.
Since both are synced, any updates to one artefact will be instantly reflected in the other.
Miro metro map template
Metro, or tube maps, can be a useful way to depict a high level user journey through a service.
They seem to be especially popular with senior managers, who appreciate their simplicity and familiarity.
Service landscape map template
Service landscape maps capture and illustrate that wider context and allow us to see the complexity at play, and to develop a better understanding of the user’s whole experience.
