Mark Boulton

Scrum V finally goes live after six months devel­op­ment, design, writ­ing and test­ing. The site fea­tures match reports, clips, man of the match, votes etc. A great magazine site for a large audi­ence in Wales. 

The site was designed to coin­side with the launch of the new series of Scrum V and the new WRU sea­son, fol­low­ing the reshuffle of the teams this year.

The pro­cess star­ted back in April with site cat­egor­isa­tion and card sort­ing. The old site was a huge, tangled site where the con­tent had out­grown the struc­ture. A remit of the new site was to cre­ate a simple struc­ture which would handle the growth, whilst retain­ing intu­it­ive nav­ig­a­tion and user journey.

Fol­low­ing card sort­ing, pre­lim designs were pro­duced and tested using bipolar test­ing and wire­frames were tested with heir­arch­ical tests. The tests went really well and helped the design pro­cess enormously.

Final designs were cre­ated some months ago and reskinned in August with the new TV brand­ing. One of the main points in the redesign was that the site has to be “skin­nable” in less than a day of design time. This meant that we can turn round changes to the design very quickly to meet the demands of an ever-changing tv brand. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scrumv/