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Date
Aug 2020
Client
SSPC
Industry
Education & Research
Timeline
4 months


The Challenge
The opportunity was to make a large body of pharmaceutical research easier to explore for academic, industry and commercial audiences.
SSPC operates across deep science, education and industry collaboration. The website needed to support very different user journeys, from PhD candidates and researchers to funders, biotech companies and multinational partners. Research pillars, technologies, accreditations and partner-facing information all needed a clearer structure so visitors could understand the centre's expertise without losing the precision of the science. The structure had to welcome non-specialists while still feeling credible to people who work inside the science.

The Solution
A research information hub created clearer pathways, stronger hierarchy and a more accessible way to explore SSPC's work.
The new structure organised complex material around audience needs and research intent. Information architecture, UI design and development worked together to make resources easier to find, with pathways for industry solutions, academic disciplines, news, events and research outputs. The result was a platform that could communicate SSPC's authority while making its work more useful to partners, students and stakeholders. This made the site more useful for recruitment, funding, research discovery and industry collaboration without diluting the expertise.

The Process
The process combined content audit, taxonomy planning, navigation design and careful web implementation.
Brainstorm mapped the needs of students, funding bodies, researchers and industry visitors before translating SSPC's research material into clearer categories and page relationships. The design introduced more breathing room around dense content, supported by clean typography and selective data visualisation. Development focused on speed, accessibility and responsive performance so the site could serve an international audience across devices. The approach kept the language and navigation grounded in real user needs rather than internal organisational complexity.




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