Sam Rios

Project: Nature Publishing Group

Nature.com is the crème de la crème of scientific publishing and in turn covers a huge range of subjects and articles.

Pushing the boundaries of the Nature.com website across all devices, whilst excelling in a sound user experience. I worked diligently alongside teams and departments in an agile environment to further user research and testing.

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MILLIONS of webpages

sat on Nature’s legacy system, pages containing large amounts of text and scientific formulae. A user centred approach was key to turning Nature around.

Legacy webpage

No matter how good a design concept, it would never fly without the results of user testing.

Our wireframes, protoypes and high fidelity designs were thoroughly tested and tested again, even when live to view it’s effectiveness.

Heatmaps from thousands of users provided us stellar numbers, but it was face-to-face user testing that really gained us intricate feedback.

When working with complex articles, good typography is everything.

Not only did we ensure that the reading experience is smooth and accessible, but we ensured a font’s glyphs covered all scientific calculations required for author’s.

During the concept design phase, style guides were produced for anyone and everyone involved in the construction of Nature’s site, specifically developers.

The results

“Incredible”
“Much more pleasing to the eye.”

Just some of the feedback that we got as the site went live.
The results were also showcased to the whole company, globally. Legacy webpages are being replaced as you read this. I was proud to have been part of a team that evolved Nature’s site to what it has become today.

Nature Illustrated

The new web platform was designed to allow for bigger beautiful hero imagery for hundreds of subjects under Nature.com

Since I am familiar with the design and layout of the new platform, I was commissioned to source and design these many of these heroes.

I personally worked with editor’s and manager’s from around the globe to ensure guides and their vision’s were met through extensive image sourcing and illustration.