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Changing our information architecture and navigation UI
FIAT's structure and navigation was designed during discovery with help from Regions Group colleagues. It's grown a lot since then, and we've needed to make changes so that its users can still find what they need.
Find information about academies and trusts
19 December 2024
Removing SHJ (Single Headline Judgements) in Ofsted data
Due to a policy change, SHG (Single Headline Grades) stopped being used in September 2024. Instead, a series of "Sub-judgements" needed to be displayed for each academy, alongside two new data points.
Find information about academies and trusts
19 December 2024
Adding information about pipeline academies
When assessing whether a school can join a certain trust, users need find out how many and the type of pipeline academies that are joining, so that they can determine if the trust has capacity to take on any more schools amongst other details.
Find information about academies and trusts
17 December 2024
Improving our search page
Find information about academies and trusts (FIAT)'s first page contains a search field and little else. Although this removes distractions for regular users, it offers no introduction or support for first-time visitors.
Find information about academies and trusts
18 October 2024
Allow users to edit a DfE contact
Users need to be able to update incorrect contact details when they spot them so that out of date information isn't stored or shared.
Find information about academies and trusts
1 October 2024
Enable users to navigate backwards
How we tackled the problem of "multiple ways" when navigating backwards.
Find information about academies and trusts
6 September 2024
An MvP to download data from within "Academies in this trust"
How we created an MvP feature to download data within one sub-page
Find information about academies and trusts
6 September 2024
Live private beta: a new team and a design crit (critique)
Why we paused work on our product and what happened when we asked DfE colleagues to give us their thoughts on our designs.
Find information about academies and trusts
2 August 2024
Displaying contact details
How we worked out the best place to display contact details and how to label them so they are easily findable.
Find information about academies and trusts
28 September 2023
Displaying warnings in a table
How we used the warning component to help users quickly see potential issues with a trust’s governing board.
Find information about academies and trusts
14 September 2023
Fitting wide tables on a web page
How we used a table format and sub navigation to display high level information about academies in a trust
Find information about academies and trusts
23 August 2023
What is TRAMS and who uses it?
TRAMS background: where it came from and why a new discovery and alpha was born to create a replacement.
Find information about academies and trusts
5 April 2023
Co-design for information architecture and navigation
We used co-design sessions to create a new content hierarchy and navigation for TRAMS.
Find information about academies and trusts
5 April 2023