Our work / UMass Boston
Research worth exploring.
Tools that invite discovery.
An interactive research application that makes richly detailed historical documents accessible to both curious newcomers and experienced researchers.
Our responsibility
Research needs through a usable platform.
One Cloud led the engagement from strategy through ongoing support.
We led strategy, design, development, and testing for the research experience and its content administration tools, together with hosting and ongoing support.
Strategy · Design · Development · Testing · Hosting · Support
The challenge
Open up the detail
without losing the context.
A history professor at UMass Boston wanted to bring years of research beyond a book-based experience. The source documents contained extensive visual information and hundreds or thousands of individual data points.
Presenting those materials online required more than a collection of scanned pages. Visitors needed a way to find relevant details, understand their relationships, and explore at a depth suited to their knowledge.
The experience
Different ways into
the same research.
We studied the documents and the information they contained before shaping the application. Search, sorting, and filtering gave less familiar audiences routes into the material, while flexible navigation supported educators and historians who wanted to explore more freely.
The interface brought the documents and their detailed information together, allowing the research to be encountered as an interactive resource.
The working system
Make room for
the research to continue.
The application paired the public experience with an administration interface for entering and maintaining the underlying data. New documents and revisions could be incorporated as the research developed.
The result was a working publishing and exploration tool: an accessible interface for visitors, supported by a structured way to manage a growing body of knowledge.
Experience applied
Complex information becomes more useful when the application accounts for both the people exploring it and the people maintaining it.
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