UKWIR launches new website with innovative features to enhance user experience
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) has announced the launch of its new and improved website, designed to provide a more user-friendly and efficient experience for visitors.
Based on extensive user research, the new site boasts a cleaner, more navigable interface, marking the beginning of a continuous journey to enhance UKWIR’s digital capabilities and support the water sector’s digital transformation.
The new website design ensures that UKWIR’s catalogue of research is easier to explore than ever before. Notable new features include an AI report search that is accessible via the ‘Our research’ menu header. This innovative tool allows users to ask specific research questions, with the Large Language Model producing both contextual results, displayed as a list of relevant reports, as well as generative results, providing valuable written summaries of findings.
Additionally, the new site introduces research theme pages, allowing users to quickly and easily access the latest reports and case studies under each theme of UKWIR’s research strategy. The new search page also offers alternative routes into the research, including a featured topics panel that identifies research reports relevant to current news media interests as well as topics of focus for regulators and policymakers.
Commenting on the launch, UKWIR’s CEO, Mike Rose, said: “This is a significant first step in UKWIR’s journey towards becoming a digitally agile organisation – one that not only keeps pace with the sector-wide digital transformation but also drives first-of-its-kind innovative solutions”.
