Bearing Partnership website

Bearing Partnership London based, digital recruitment specialists

Information Architecture & User Experience Design & User Interface Design & Interaction Design & xHTML coding & CSS3

I worked on the Bearing Partnership website while working on behalf of Roxxor working as one of their User Experience specialists

Bearing Partnership hired Roxxor to redesign their website and blog and to develop their Executive Network.

Starting with the audience

For the website redesign I worked with the Bearing team going right back to the beginning and starting the design process by thinking about who the audience for the Bearing Partnership site is and about what their aims when visiting the site may be.

Once we established who the audience was and what they would be looking to do on the site we worked together to form a content and feature list that would provide the right information and functionality to support their audience’s goals.

Building an Architecture

The next step in the process was to design the Information Architecture for the site, collecting and grouping the content and features into a logical and meaningful hierarchy that would help visitors to the site find the information that they were looking for.

Designing the interface

Having established the Information Architecture and content organisation I next moved to working on the interface and look and feel. The Bearing team had a great collection of designs and styles that they liked from other websites and media which I used as a starting point to help develop a style that they felt reflected their company and approach to the world of recruitment.

Design, build, review, repeat

Once we had a basic style of look and feel that the Bearing team were looking for I build a static HTML and CSS prototype of their site and started to tweak the designs based on their feedback. This process was repeated until a final design was agreed upon at which point the static HTML prototype of the site was handed over to Roxxor’s development team who used it as the functional spec to help them build the site using a Roxxor custom content management system.

What the client thought

“James excelled at asking the right questions. I felt he thoroughly understood our business goals before he went through the design process. He kept us involved and informed of progress, amendments and iterations and this all ensured we achieved the end result we wanted. I would highly recommend James and will certainly be asking for his consultancy again in the future”Aryn Hurst-Clark- Owner, Digital Recruitment Specialist at Bearing Partnership