UX Design & Custom CMS

Transforming RTP's Website into a Socially-Engaged Experience

Overview

Bringing RTP's Digital Vision to Life

North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park is home to more than 200 technology companies employing more than 50,000 experts in micro-electronics, telecommunications, biotechnology, big data, and environmental sciences. Led by a board of directors drawn from top companies and universities, the RTP has been an epicenter of research for more than 50 years.

To keep this story moving forward, the RTP needed a digital presence reflecting the ingenuity, collaboration, and vision that defined the organization. This meant updating the text-driven legacy site into a dynamic, mobile-optimized online experience. Atlantic BT brought this digital vision to life.

By the Numbers

178,000

New users

22,000

Twitter followers

531,000

Unique page views

The Challenge

As one of the world’s top business organizations, the Research Triangle Park needed a new vision for its homepage. The existing RTP.org lacked social media engagement, was not optimized for mobile, and did not reflect the community of the RTP.

The Solution

Atlantic BT transformed the RTP legacy site into a socially-engaged experience. The new RTP.org relies on images and interactivity to facilitate user exploration and sharing of RTP content.

Research-Driven Design

After extensive analysis, research, and interviews with RTP leaders, we designed an intuitive site that facilitated navigation with menu drawers and interactive maps.

Multi-Tiered Menu

To streamline site navigation at RTP.org, we designed a web interface that relied on a dynamic menu. This always-on menu used mouseover capabilities to make it simple for visitors to quickly find the information they needed.

Visual Storytelling

Rich innovation demands more than a text-heavy website. Using tiled images of research and collaboration, we presented a visual story to show how RTP leads a community of collaboration.

Social Content API

We built a social content API to allow visitors to RTP.org to share images, videos, and articles. Users are now encouraged to contribute to the RTP story on social channels.