York's new immersive VR entertainment destination, obilViaR, needed a website to match the excitement of its virtual reality experiences. Tasked with bringing the vibrant vision of web designer Lucy Rigley to life, I developed a bespoke Laravel website with a focus on creating an overall feeling of depth and fluidity, mirroring the engaging nature of the virtual reality experiences offered. This vision translated into the incorporation of smooth, airy animations, designed to captivate visitors and hint at the fluid nature of virtual reality itself.

As always, it is easier to create a database to ensure a simple dynamic management of games and experiences. Despite a rapid project turnaround, the site seamlessly integrates a third-party booking system, providing a smooth and efficient user journey from browsing to booking a VR adventure. The obilViaR website serves as the digital gateway to York's only dedicated VR experience, inviting both first-timers and seasoned VR enthusiasts to discover the immersive fun that awaits.

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From my original interface concept UI design, I produced an exciting learning tool for 11-14 year olds to learn about the UK and it's places of interest they can visit. The spinning menu and zooming map are an exciting way into the roughly 2000 pieces of database driven content. This flagship application of gridClub.com helped the site walk away with a BAFTA, a BETT and an Emma Foundation award.

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I was tasked with bringing a very well established maths tutoring site up to date and into the mobile age. After an initial period of R&D, I designed and built a flexible and scalable UI with a full example tutorial ready for user testing and demoing to investors.

The tutorials are step by step and reactive; they will explain the same point in another way, with supporting animation, if the user didn't quite understand the first time. Technically it had to work on desktop, tablets and mobiles with an emphasis on the varied mobiles in use in schools around the globe. This spawned lots of problems in the design; trying to avoid just going for the lowest common denominator and keeping the highly engaging flow and animation to aid the understanding and retention of the lesson. The UI can work in both portrait and landscape and has a 'split' bar so the user can fine-tune the UI themselves, throughout the lessons, if they prefer the emphasis to be on the tutorial's animation and explanation or the accompanying (multi-lingual) text explanation. Flexible guided learning is key here.

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