Aotine
2018
UX / UI DesignDigital StrategyWeb Dev

Aotine

About the project

The studio needed a website that doesn’t just list its work but draws you into it: large photography, expressive typography, transitions and a response to every user action.

We designed a complete system of pages — home, projects and project page, about, blog, news and contacts — plus a popup form, a gallery and a preloader.

Home
page

The home page works as the studio’s showcase: large photographs of completed projects fill the first screen and change with smooth transitions. Further down come selected projects, the studio’s areas of work and a short note on its approach, so within seconds it’s clear what Aotine does.

Interactive website design — home page
Interactive website design — home page 2
Interactive website design — home page 3

Projects

The portfolio is built around images: large cards and minimal text. Work is grouped by discipline — interiors, architecture, landscape — and on hover a card comes alive, hinting that there’s a whole story behind it.

Interactive website design — projects

The project
page

Projects are grouped into interiors, architecture and landscape, and every piece of work gets a story of its own. We built the project page from flexible blocks — large images, a description, details and a link to the next project — so that work of any scale looks equally coherent.

Interactive website design — project page
Interactive website design — project page 2
Interactive website design — project page 3
Interactive website design — project page 4

The studio
in its own words

On the about page we focused on the studio’s story and approach: the text is broken into short, meaningful sections, and visual accents keep attention as you scroll.

Interactive website design — about page
Interactive website design — about page 2
Interactive website design — about page 3

Blog

The blog feed brings together the studio’s writing on projects, materials and ideas. We kept it calm and easy to scan: a cover, a category and a headline — everything you need to decide what to read.

Interactive website design — blog page

News
article

For long reads we worked out the typography and rhythm: wide images alternate with text, quotes and captions stand out, and related posts wait at the end of the article.

Interactive website design — news page
Interactive website design — news page 2
Interactive website design — news page 3

Contacts

The contacts page answers the key questions straight away: how to reach the studio and where to find it. The contact form sits right there, so you can write without leaving the page.

Interactive website design — contacts page

Popup
form

You can get in touch from any page: the form opens on top of the content and doesn’t take people away from the place where they made up their mind. It has exactly as many fields as a first contact needs.

Interactive website design — popup form

Gallery

Project photos open in a full-screen gallery: the image takes over the screen, and the interface steps back so nothing distracts from the work itself.

Interactive website design — gallery

Preloader

Even the wait became part of the identity: while the heavy photography loads, the preloader shows the studio’s mark and turns the pause into a brief introduction.

Interactive website design — preloader
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