Overview
About the client
newcleo, launched in September 2021, is a private company innovating in the field of nuclear energy. Their focus is on developing safe, clean, and sustainable nuclear energy, leveraging existing technologies in a cost-competitive manner. They are actively involved in designing and constructing next-generation (Generation IV) nuclear reactors, specifically lead-cooled fast reactors (LFRs) fueled with MOX (Mixed Oxide Fuel). These reactors are aimed at contributing to climate change mitigation and global decarbonization.
With 282 employees, newcleo has positioned itself as a developer of clean and safe nuclear technology, designing methods to extract energy from nuclei in a safe, clean, renewable, and technologically accessible way. Based in London, England, the company is working on a microlead fast reactor with potential commercial applications, situating itself in the energy and utilities sector, particularly focusing on biofuel energy services and nuclear energy.
Where we started from
newcleo intends to build its own intranet platform, focused on providing employees and collaborators with all the necessary tools to align with the work environments and the company’s vision, stay up-to-date on the latest news about Newcleo through the press review, and always have tools and repositories at hand to participate in community activities and navigate the entire company directory with the names and roles of every employee or collaborator of the company.
Problems to start from
Before starting the work, a series of meetings were necessary, in which, together with the team responsible for this process, we tried to rationalize all the information provided during the onboarding phase into more intuitive logical clusters for the users of the platform.
The energy sector, specifically the nuclear sector, are extremely technical fields where it is necessary to be very detailed and not create confusion in navigating between the various pages. Being all part of the same ecosystem, they will all have to follow a common stylistic line.
Research and analysis
Fortunately, the branding work previously done by newcleo was already of very high quality. We just had to gather all this information to be able to reuse it in a structured way on the pages to be designed.
Sitemap and moodboard
During the information clustering phase, multiple sitemaps were created. Each of these was reviewed by the project managers who defined their purpose and content.
Meanwhile, we worked together to decide the form and style, creating the right logical connections between the pages themselves. After 4 iterations, we finally created the definitive one.
The research
The entire research process was simplified by the company, as the styling of the pages and the entire intranet platform was to follow the already excellent and existing visual identity of newcleo, designed by an external agency. All details and images could be easily retrieved. The colors and visual patterns could be easily recreated using the color palette of the logo and its style guide.
Users and customers
The main users of newcleo‘s intranet platform would always have been employees and internet collaborators of the company. All material on the platform was closely linked to company life and values.
Solution and design process
First concepts and wireframe
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Problem solving approach
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