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The brief

Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) is Scotland's original arts cinema and a Scottish cultural touchstone. Our goal was to create a modern and unique website with a silky smooth ticket buying flow that worked great on both desktop and mobile. Two internationally reknowned film festivals that call GFT their home also required separate but interlinked microsites, which presented an additional challenge.

My role

This project was developed by Whitespace and my main responsibiities were UX and project management. One area of particular focus was presenting the complex array of screenings in an usable, engaging layout. These could have multiple attributes - including genre, special features and accessiblity information - which needed to be clearly presented and filterable. The screenings could also have relationships with a season of screenings or a festival, which then required the listing to be shared to a festival microsite and to include venue infromation if the screening wasn't at GFT. Phew!

The result

I think the client, the ticket-buyers and I were all pretty stoked by how it turned out. In particular the visual direction (developed by the design team at Whitespace) really spoke to both the cinema's heritage and its prominent place in the map of modern Scottish culture.

Oh, and it won the Scottish Design Award for Digital in 2017.

The brief

This project was proposed around the time that 360 video was really starting to take off. Visit Scotland wanted us (Whitespace) to develop an engaging experiential site that made the most of the burgeoning interest in this technology and promoted some of the most stunning views in Scotland, those seen while walking its Munros.

My role

This project was developed at Whitespace and my role was a mix of UX, project management, and a degree of the high-level technical scoping with the development team. This including working out what flavour of 360 video we'd use and how we'd push our chosen solution (YouTube's own 360 video) to it's limits by overlaying our own video controls, dynamic information points and chapter system.

The result

I always relish the opportunity to work on smaller self-contained experiential sites and this was no different. The smallish nature of the site, and the excellent team I worked with, really gave us the opportunity to polish all of the interaction and UI. For this reason I feel it's one of my favourite sites I've worked on.

It was nominated in the Best Website category of the 2016 Scottish Creative Awards.

The brief

Flamingosaurus Rex is a hip gallery, shop and art space in Edinburgh's Bruntsfield area. They needed a small website that showcased current and past exhibits, sold their wares, and most importantly reflected their unique vibe.

My role

I did the whole shebang for this one, including both the visual design and development work. I worked closely with the folks at the gallery to develop a handful of concepts for a homepage which we then chose between. From there I worked up the rest of the pages, but kept things relatively loose to afford us more flexibility in development. One of the benefits of handling all aspects of a project is that it's easier to add new visual elements or functionality later in the project without delaying things too much. Many of the features or flourishes on the site were added in the final stages.

The result

This project was on a smaller scale than those I've undertaken as part of an agency, but my role was much larger. For that reason this project was important to me in further developing both my design and development skills, and I'm particularly happy with it as a result.