Showcasing 40 years of Nottingham Business School
Nottingham Business School’s (NBS) purpose is to provide research and education that combines academic excellence with a positive impact on people, business and society.
Design Systems
Our award-winning design systems are a competitive advantage for our clients. It’s seen some drastic refinements in recent years. Designing libraries of components (not page templates) has opened up new opportunities. The result is some big changes in the way we work.
It’s a collaborative design process that engages stakeholders of all seniority. This gives us insight into what makes your brand authentic. We will refine and document how you should present yourself online.
Designers from SMILE create frameworks of components that meet organisational goals. We translate the jargon and show you how to stay WCAG 2.x/ADA/Section 508 compliant.
UEA Website wins silver at HEIST awards 2021
We're absolutely delighted for the SMILE-designed UEA website to have won silver in the "Best Website" category at the HEIST awards, 2021.
Helping DELTA Trust replace their network of school websites
The DELTA Academies Trust were looking to replace their current network of over 50 primary and secondary school websites.
Repurposing WordPress for live chat
Hijack 2.0 has changed the way that we approach live chat in the backend of WordPress, find out how we have done this.
Going Beyond Dance, Music, Art and Literature with Sampad.org.uk
The all new Sampad Arts website has launched! Sampad’s mission is to connect people with South Asian and British Asian Arts and Heritage, and to play a cutting-edge role in the creative economy.
Changing the way we design with evolving software
Over the years, the design team at SMILE have used multiple design programmes in a bid to deliver the highest quality output for our clients. When I began at SMILE in 2017, we briefly used Figma for design work but…
Introducing: The all-new University of Gloucestershire website
The all-new University of Gloucestershire website has launched. This project includes so many things that we've wanted to see in flagship websites. This high-profile development took over a year to realise and saw SMILE work with stakeholders from across the university at all levels.
Working with UEA on their flagship website
We re-designed the University of East Anglia (UEA) website. This was our biggest design project to date including UI/UX design, and the creation of a design system.
How we helped Falmouth University restructure their homepage and navigation
We embarked upon a project of research and recommendation, to focus on homepage and global navigation suggestions.