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Jamie Neely
18th August 2006

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Tandem Website Launched

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We have recently completed an online portfolio for Holywood-based design firm Tandem Design. Tandem were keen to develop something with an experimental interface in order to promote discovery within their portfolio, while not alienating the average user. We found working on the website a good challenge and are interested in seeing just how users will react to it’s irregular navigation. Let us know if you like it!

Jamie Neely – Creative Director

Jamie leads the studios creative output and specialises in user experience strategy / design, information architecture, storyboarding and the development of creative concepts.

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Paul May said

100% Flash site, is it 2002? Only kidding :)

The tandem site is cool, well done. The interface is fluid and natural (excellent use of movement, subtle scaling of images, intelligent loading of content when it’s needed), and the focus of the site is on showing the work at a high quality.

It’s almost like you’re in an art gallery, and you can choose to walk into different rooms to look at various types of work. You can quickly skip around and see everything, or slowly walk through the graphics. It has that feel that you wouldn’t get by just throwing a gallery of JPGs up, there’s a sense of progresd.

Good stuff, and simple in the best possible way. Would be intersted to know how the site degrades for non-flash users, how the content is managed, if you think this type of site necessarily needs to be done in Flash.

3 years, 11 months ago

Andrew said

Thanks for the feedback as it is especially good to hear a positive review after a long process during which I think we drove the guys at Front slightly mad. We are delighted with our new site and feel it reflects our ethos perfectly. We wanted our site to show a snapshot of the quality of work we do rather than an exhaustive portfolio that does not engage the viewer, deliberately avoiding bleating on about how good we are with reams of text and instead leaving the site and the work to speak for itself. We owe a big thanks to Front for their patience and for the quality of the finished piece.