UX, copywriting and brand design meet in the new NTS website

NTS. A strong brand, with an even stronger positioning. This first-line contract manufacturer develops, makes and assembles complex (opto)mechatronic systems and mechanical modules. High-tech, to be precise. Headquartered in the heart of the Brainport region, with locations across Europe, Asia and America, they provide key clients in the semiconductor and analytical market with customized solutions.

Global brand needs a cohesive identity

Precisely because of their growing global presence, cohesion was becoming increasingly important. Cohesion in NTS as a brand secured by creating one unified NTS Group website. And a pretty good one. In a revolutionized house style, aligned with its brand values and written in appropriate tone of voice. You know, a job after our own hearts. Because it’s not every day that you get to work on a project in which strategy, brand design, user experience and copywriting come together!

When a website needs updating, there are two choices. Do you choose to optimize the current website? Or do you go back to square one? To answer that question, you first get to the core of the customer’s ask. Better, newer and more up to date is great. But one of the wishes was to also coalesce the websites of all locations together into one. We also had the opportunity to work in tandem on a new corporate identity and tone of voice, based on NTS’s brand values. Beautiful tools, ready to start building with. Clearly there was more than enough to do, which is why we chose option two.

Strategic UX

Rebuilding it is! Tabula rasa, a blank canvas. In the first phase, together with NTS, we took a critical look at the content of the website on a strategic level. Diving, reflecting and questioning. Which areas of expertise do we highlight? What do we excel in? And what makes it unique? We set up a new tree structure to tell the NTS story as completely as possible.

A house style revolution

NTS’ new brand identity? Not an overnight job. Over the past few years, we have worked on it together and intensively. The next step was to put it into action on a new website, with images, colors and movements that are in sync with the NTS brand. After all, how else do you convert brand values like “state-of-the-art,” “hands-on” and “approachable” into a visual brand experience? At the end of this phase, there was a website. But you still needed to replace ‘lorem ipsum’.

Don’t underestimate copy

Our content creators, who were waiting in the wings, could now finally spring into action and write all the texts for the English website. Though the first phase has already determined which markets, expertise and main topics will be covered, the content/text writing phase is just as important for the brand. Getting the hang of complex topics is one thing. But how do you transfer that knowledge into a text? How technical do you keep it? How will you approach the story? And how do you make sure the different locations don’t lose their uniqueness?

The great thing is that our new website not only contributes enormously to the NTS brand, but also generates more and better leads

Stefan Martens, Head of Marketing & Internal Communications NTS

An intensive project, which would not have been a success without an equally intensive collaboration. And the result? Quite impressive, even if we say so ourselves. 

Would you like to take a look at your website together with us? Review the status of your texts? Or check out your user experience? You can always drop by for a cup of coffee.