By royal appointment :)

Prince William School is the 4th school to use Swimming Hippo for the production of a website and prospectus.

Prince William School requested that Swimming Hippo assist with the design process of their new school website, to update their brand and give a fresh look to their school image. They also wanted to take this branding and carry it through to their prospectus design, keeping the continuity of their brand.

Salts Healthcare

With the success of the last Salts Healthcare mobile app, Swimming Hippo have been contracted to build a second app to support nurses advising pre-op and post-op stoma patients.

Salts Healthcare are one of the oldest companies in the United Kingdom and specialise in a range of products to help support stoma patients in comfort and care.

This new, tablet friendly app will contain 4 main sections which are based on previous product brochures. The app will assist nurses in explaining to stoma patients about their operation and aftercare.

The app will include over 90 pages of content from video clips to 3D animations explaining product features.

The Speech House Hotel goes mobile

We advised The Speech House Hotel how to prepare their website for mobile use because of the high visitor numbers accessing their site via smart phones. Visit their website on your mobile to view the end result.

With up to 80% of the world’s population owning a mobile phone, and 1.1 billion of these users owning smart phones, it’s important to make sure that your website and content is accessible to these potential customers.

When The Speech House Hotel were made aware of how many customers were accessing their website via smart phone, they wanted to future proof it by creating a version which was accessible to mobile phone users. Swimming Hippo suggested that the best approach for the hotel would be a dedicated mobile site, as their current website wasn’t redesigned too long ago.

Making their website accessible to customers makes it easier for these customers to place a booking via an easily accessible link.

New responsive website and branding

We are pleased to announce our new website, which we launched in the first half of the year.

You may have already noticed our changes to our branding and website, but for those who haven’t you will find it more accessible to smart phones and tablets because of the use of responsive design.

Responsive web design is a way of producing a website that adapts to a users interface. For example if you take a look at our site on your desktop computer and on your smart phone then you will see the similarities between the design, but also how it switches from a 4 column layout to a single column layout. This was an exciting move forward for us, and we hope you find it useful.

Also included is a company profile, our extended list of services including web design and search engine optimisation as well as new services such as mobile design and app development. A range of our latest projects can also be found on our work section.

Take a look at our website to see what’s new and why not contact us to find out more about our services.

AirBoss return to Swimming Hippo

Swimming Hippo have successfully completed a comprehensive procurement process and been selected to delivery a new ecommerce website design for AirBoss.

So what is AirBoss all about? AirBoss is a Cheltenham based business that has been developing and distributing a unique and innovative wheel system

produced for brands such as JCB and Bobcat since 1991. AirBoss stands out from other tyre manufacturers because their system is puncture proof and segmented - when one segment is worn it can be replaced without removing the vehicle wheel, avoiding unnecessary downtime.

Swimming Hippo has worked with AirBoss in the past, designing and developing websites and print brochures - we a pleased to have be selected as their Digital Agency again. The services to be delivered include:

• Website design
• Photography
• Video editing
• Ecommerce

For more information on how Swimming Hippo may be able to help with your digital marketing, call 01386 764747 or visit www.swimminghippo.co.uk

Virtual Assistant for Artificial Solutions

Artificial Solutions is a company who specialise in the development of Natural Language Interaction, using web based virtual assistants for customer support and sales processes.

Swimming Hippo was chosen to work along with Artificial Solutions in the creative process for a recent interface project. This meant providing the composition and creation of an avatar and the graphic design and coding for a user interface. To see more work from artificial solutions Click Here.

For more information on how Swimming Hippo may be able to help your business, call 01386 764747 or visit www.swimminghippo.co.uk 

Artificial, but not not without design

Artificial Solutions build the word's most humanlike, intelligent and capable virtual assistants. Recently they approached Swimming Hippo to assist with designing a user interface to be used for one of their corporate clients. Key to the success of this project was best use of space to present data clearly within a restricted area. First three options were provided (view these concepts) with a final visual generated based on one of these visuals, presenting hidden interface options (view the final design).

"Swimming Hippo was able to provide us with the creative support we required for this project. They produced the designs quickly, providing a selection of creative options to select from. We are pleased with the final result and I would not hesitate to recommend them or use them again."

Steven Fletcher, UK Account Manager.