British Museum Launches New Website with Design and Information Architecture by Cogapp

published Feb 16, 2008
British Museum Launches New Website with Design and Information Architecture by Cogapp
Cogapp announced that The British Museum has launched its new website after an intensive eighteen-month period of re-development that saw Cogapp win two competitive tenders to deliver both Information Architecture, and design work.

Cogapp won the competitive tender to develop the site Information Architecture (IA) in July 2006, and set about mapping user and business goals to establish a clear definition of the sites' key objectives.

Working with user research partners, Web Usability Partnership, the Cogapp team conducted interviews with Museum stakeholders and with over forty users and also collected user feedback via an online survey.

Having developed the broader web strategy in collaboration with the client Cogapp carried out extensive user and stakeholder research, card sorting and iterative development of the IA, which included five rounds of user-testing.

The outcomes of this phase of the project - a site hierarchy, metadata framework, IA strategy and wire-frame templates - provided a specification for the website's graphic design, also undertaken by Cogapp after winning a separate competitive tender for the work.