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<aside> 🏴 Darllenwch y Gymraeg
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<aside> 🔶 Alpha is when you get to start trying out solutions to the problems you learnt about in discovery.
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It’s December and we have now closed off discovery.
To recap, during discovery we investigated our users and the problems they have using our website. We now have our user stories created and have a clear understanding of what our users want from our website.
Our user stories - click to expand
Over the next few weeks (December and January) we shall try out different solutions, investigating technical options, and investigating different content and pages we could have on the new site. We will create drawings and prototypes of the new sites which we will use to gather further feedback to ensure what we are building is what our users want.
We started the year with our first face to face meeting in the amazing sbarc|spark in Cardiff.
I got a little obsessed with the red stairs…🪜
…more red stairs…
…even more red stairs.
During the day, we held a content workshop where we reviewed menu and page structure and layout of the new website. Seeing a paper prototype of the site gave us a chance to adjust wording, layouts, and menus to better suit what our users need.
Prototypes are a simple and quick way to be able to demo the final product without having to invest too much time or effort into building a fully working product.
We ran the workshop as a hybrid with some folks in the room, and others at home (due to travel disruption), it worked well with a Miro board replicating what we had on the walls.
Miro board reflecting what was on the physical walls
Prototype of “Job” page
Prototypes of “Projects” page
Prototype of “Events and courses” page
Prototype of “Projects” page
During the workshop, we kept our user needs (and stories) at the core of every design decision. This allowed us to create a menu structure that should allow our users to find information more easily (rather than just building a website that reflects our own internal departments).
We are using a high-level categorisation of the Digital Service Standards for Wales which are:
<aside> 🔶 Meet user needs
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