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Scrum V Live

  • Posted on: September 04, 2003
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scrumvScrum 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/

Comments

i`d just like to say that if eddy butler is the best that the bbc. could find to replace bill mc claren then this is a sorry state of affairs.the way i always understood it was that the comentator was supposed to remain impatial, mr.butler seems incapable of this especialy with regards to england, to be fair they do hold the world cup, but there are other teams besides them,i have to ask myself ,is mr. butler a frustrated welshman who wishes to be english!!he was a mediocef no.8. and how he got to captain a welsh side is anyones guess,his comentrys, are unbelivable,ie. if he had gone over it would have been a try!! mind blowing.

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dave thomas
Mon 5th Apr 2004
at 5:09 am

Hi Dave,

Sorry to hear you have some issues about the commentators for Scrum V. As this posting is related to the launch of the site, from the designers perspective, i’m not sure it’s the best forum for these comments.

I suggest raising these points on the Scrum V messageboard. I’m sure you’ll get some good feedback.

Thanks,
Mark

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Mark
Mon 5th Apr 2004
at 5:16 am

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