UHS is a large teaching hospital undertaking leading edge research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Strategy development
UHS’s audiences are very task orientated. I.e. people wouldn’t find themselves on the website randomly checking things out, they would arrive with very specific tasks in mind. Therefore, any successful redesign of the site would present these ‘top tasks’ in a prioritised and simple to understand manner.
We carried out user research – including canvassing patients and visitors in person – to determine what the top tasks are and how they could then be translated into a new site design.
Tasks included:
- Website usability review
- Stakeholder interviews
- Face-to-face patient and visitor survey
- Online survey
- Recommendations document
We developed a filterable spreadsheet that shows different task priorities for different audience groups (medical staff, inpatients, visitors, media etc). The following example shows top tasks for an amalgam of all the patient related groups. It tells us that we need to display links to Outpatient Appointments, Find my Doctor/Consultant and a link to Southampton General very clearly on any new designs.
Translating the research
We worked with the UHS team to develop a new information architecture and set of templates for their developers to integrate.
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