The brief
NatureScot are Scotland’s nature agency, dedicated to improving the natural environment in Scotland and inspire everyone to care more about it. As part of their remit, they are responsible for supporting the creation of ‘Nature Networks’ – a series of connected areas which allow nature to thrive. We were tasked with creating a standalone online platform which could act as a source of information for anyone involved in creating a nature network, from local authorities to land owners and conservation charities. The site needed to bring together a wide variety of information from different sources, in a way that was easy to search and navigate.
The solution
All of the information to be housed on the new site was previously contained on NatureScot’s own website, in the form of copy content accompanied by a series of text links to external sources. This made the information very hard to read, search, or refer back to. NatureScot wanted users to be able to save the content they were interested in, into their own reference list. They could then share this with other team members or bookmark for later use. We built this in a way that doesn’t require the user to sign in or create an account with the site, and no personal data is required or stored. We also created landing pages with filters to make it easier for user to narrow down the content to their specific needs.
The site was Pen tested and developed and tested to conform to WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards.