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The Brief:
Xerox is building a new community of Premier Partners. These partners will have access to a web site that will allow them to communicate with other partners, refer print jobs and obtain valuable documents to aid them in the business. Your efforts will focus on the document sharing area known called Knowledge Services. This project is a worldwide effort and is aimed at customers who speak English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. We require a method for internal personnel to create and manage information for the Knowledge Services area. (Specific content detail followed)
The Concept:
The identity for the main site was already created so this was mainly and information design process. The primary consideration was the use of multiple languages. Not only did the content have to be in multiple languages but the interface needs to interact with multilingual users. This meant that a user could select French for the interface language and then view/edit English and German content. In the end, every element on the page was dynamically generated. The rest of the design focused on providing an informative interface with a clear hierarchical structure for the multi level content.
The Solution:
A drop down menu provided access to primary operations that could be performed by the user. A side menu displays content categories and expands and contracts depending on the selected level. Below that is a summary of content, for each language, indicating the sub-levels and content objects. The main area of the page displayed the content as it would appear to the customer. The interface language can be changed using the flags in the top right.
