General Assembly at the moment are running a series of free introductory seminars in various specialist areas. They’ve been great, I’d definitely recommend signing up to a couple if you have the time. Last week I went to one on user experience design and I thought I’d share a highlight of the session. Usually when a…

With everyone on holiday over the summer, we’ve had some time at Time to Change to do a few nice UX improvements that have been on the list for a while. My favourite has been getting the site AMP ready on blogs and news stories. Working in comms, news sites amping their articles has been really useful for me.…

As Time to Change is a social movement, sharing personal stories from people with experience of mental health problems is an essential part of our content strategy. A lot of these stories we commission from the general public and host on the Time to Change blog, but we’re also a big fan of amplifying user-generated…

This blog is about removing redundant web content from a large site. Before I start, I should say that a much more sensible person would have got an agency to do this. At several points during the process (which I started in October) I’ve thought I was being far too stubbornly INTJ about the whole…

Last month I blogged about how Time to Change would manage the exponential increase in server load caused by our annual marking #timetotalk day. I talked about having six plausible options for managing the load and about the decision to choose a combination of Varnish and an additional overflow server to cope with the day’s traffic. Setting…

At Time to Change we generally get around 1000 visitors to the site a day. On peak days, like World Mental Health Day, this might double, but there’s enough flex in our server capacity to manage that without issue. Once a year though, the first Thursday in February, we run Time to Talk Day –…