Building an entirely new ecosystem for the core brand & 13 sub brands

The enormous task of creating a design system for 14 new sites from scratch

The IET had legacy sites for their org site and all the sub brands. The task at hand was to firstly set up an agile framework for all business units to be communicated with on how the rollout would occur for all the websites and digital entities, starting from least complex to most complex with the org site.

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Understanding the problem

With all business units briefed on agile and design systems the focus groups began with engineers to ascertain what a good digial estate looked like for each business unit. Multiple workshops and sprints brought the solution for the new back end to be Umbraco. Tree testing was then run to develop the new information architecture.

Discovery to rollout

From discovery to completion consisted of building and refining common components as each digital estate was rolled out over the course of a year. Publishing frameworks and authoring reponsibilities were formed after each rollout, and by the end we had a gleamig new digital ecosystem.