Soluna Sydney
Soluna Sydney is a sophisticated website for a restaurant inspired by California’s vibrant culture, offering a seamless experience for exploring menus, making reservations, and discovering events.
Project Overview:
The Soluna Sydney website was designed to embody the restaurant's LA-inspired atmosphere and sophisticated dining experience. Our goal was to create a user-friendly platform where visitors could effortlessly explore the menu, make reservations, and stay updated on events. The website combines clean, modern aesthetics with intuitive navigation, reflecting the restaurant's vibrant yet refined brand identity. Special attention was given to responsive design, ensuring a seamless experience across all devices.
Challenges:
- Three jobs, one page: menu, reservations and events all reachable in a single step.
- Atmosphere in a browser: carrying an LA-inspired dining room into a web layout.
- Booking on a phone: the reservation path is where most guests start and must not fail.
- Events that come and go: the page has to read correctly when nothing is scheduled.
Objectives:
- Improve Usability: Simplify navigation and enhance user experience.
- Ensure Accessibility: Optimize for mobile, tablet, and desktop.
- Showcase Information: Present key content clearly.
- Enhance Performance: Improve load times and responsiveness.
Our Solution
We created a user-centric, responsive website that reflects Soluna Sydney's elegance and professionalism. By leveraging modern technologies and design principles, we ensured a seamless user experience across all devices, enabling effortless navigation and enhanced functionality.
Technologies/Tools:
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- PHP
- WordPress
- Yoast SEO
- Google Analytics
Process:
Discovery
Worked through how Soluna's guests actually arrive: looking for the menu, a booking, or what is on this week.
Strategy & Planning
Put the menu, reservations and events within one step of the landing page, and planned how events would be published between them.
Design
Designed to carry the LA-inspired room into the browser, with photography given space and the booking action always in reach.
Development
Built the site with the reservation flow and menu as the two paths that have to work first on a phone, which is where most bookings start.
QA Testing
Tested reservations end to end, checked the menu stays readable at every size, and confirmed events render correctly when none are scheduled.
Launch & Handover
Launched the site and handed over menu and event publishing to the restaurant team.
User flow
Color Palette
Desktop
Desktop Previews
Mobile Previews
What we did on Soluna Sydney
- Frontend developmentReact, Next.js and TypeScript interfaces built from design
- CMS developmentStrapi, Prismic and WordPress, headless where it earns its place
- QA and testingManual and automated testing on the paths that carry revenue
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