Luni

Redesigning an app studio’s website to attract talent.

Industry
App studio
Year
2022
Touchpoints
Website
Luni — a pink 3D scene: sport and leisure objects arranged on platforms

More than an app studio, Luni is a creative team giving birth to singular, memorable brands. Its website had to convey the richness of its projects, show its world and convince the best talent to join.

Luni — the wordmark on a pastel gradient

Radical Freedom

Working on the redesign of Luni's website, a unique app studio, was a fantastic adventure! Through numerous iterations and hard work, it led Hervé's teams from expressing a need - attracting talents and conveying Luni's new positioning - to creating a tiny yet immersive universe.

Luni — two people at a screen, the mark overlaid

Let the Luniverse be

Luni's intention was to allow visitors to immerse themselves in its world through intuitive and innovative navigation on its website. It was during a research phase that the current navigation concept was born, affectionately dubbed 'the Luniverse'. Simple and flexible, this concept recreates a genuine little world where the site's chapters share a common space and harmoniously tell the story of Luni.

Luni — the grid of app screens, 3D scenes and interfaces
Luni — a miniature 3D football pitch, with its big-eyed characters
Luni — Spark: a blue river and a meadow in 3D under a white sun, on a plinth
Luni — Luni Lab: a miniature laboratory in 3D, white cubes with green and purple shapes
Luni — Lunipod: a capsule house in 3D, terraces and stairs on pink

Inside the Luniverse

With the Luniverse concept in place, we were able to focus on defining each of its environments or chapters. The Luniverse is composed of 5 environments:

One serving as the entrance, one for each of Luni's three flagship applications (Omada, Spark, and Coach+) and finally, one named Kitchen Lab, which offers a glimpse into Luni's creative universe.

The work on these environments occurred in two phases:

An initial phase of general concept and sketching, which ensured consistency among the various environments.

Followed by a production phase: modeling and texturing in C4D with the Octane rendering engine, and then optimization for integration on the website in WebGL by the development team under Hervé's oversight.

Luni — a scene in clay render, before colour
Luni — the blue neon sign on a studio wall
Luni — a second scene in clay render, before colour
Luni — a close-up of the scene's orange and yellow slide
Luni — the Kitchen LAB wordmark, in inflated letters

Little big details

To enhance the appeal of the Luniverse and ensure the immersive feeling for visitors, we developed an entire language of micro-interactions. Recognizable and predictable to the visitor, these micro-interactions act as the glue that binds the Luniverse together, ensuring a cohesive experience throughout the navigation.These micro-interactions are the kind of infinite small details that allow grand stories to come to life.

Luni — “Let's shine” set in Balloon Ball, the typeface drawn in-house for the brand
Luni — three balloon letters drawn freehand on a grid

From small to large screens... and vice versa.

From the very first sketches, we knew that the experience we had to create should be as compelling on mobile as it is on desktop.

The quest for consistency across all devices was a guiding principle in our work, from the sketching and modeling phases to micro-interactions, 3D model optimizations, and finally development, all the way to the website's launch.

Luni — two app screens, Kitchen Lab and Coach+, in 3D on cream