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Technium launch new website
Technium is a Welsh Assembly funded organisation providing accommodation and support for early-stage science and technology businesses. WUP undertook usability testing of the site in late 2007. This identified a number of problems including an ineffective information architecture and problems with the layout and design of the site. Subsequently WUP was commissioned to develop a new information architecture and wireframes for key page types. One of the key challenges was that Technium consists of 9 separate centres all of whom effectively wanted their own web sites. We had to come up with an information architecture that met the needs of users to have a coherent user experience as well as the Centres desire to tell their own stories. WUP undertook this development through a number of iterations each informed with user evidence. The development process involved representatives of the Technium centres to ensure that they bought into the new developments. The designs to the wireframes were subsequently developed by S8080, a specialist website design agency. The site has just been launched and has received considerable praise from users for being much easier to use.