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Web design & integration

Rigaud

The house of Rigaud, perfumers in Paris since 1852, is the inventor of scented candles.

As part of its re-launching, the company now has a high-end online shop offering three distinct modes for exploring its catalogue:

  • by fragrance,
  • by article,
  • by gift suggestion

This Web Standards-compliant site combines three essential qualities:

  • elegance,
  • affordance #1,
  • findability #2.

Customers easily find the product of their choice in fewer than 2 clicks.

  1. An affordance is a situation where an object’s sensory characteristics intuitively imply its functionality and use. It is a desirable property of a user interface - software which naturally leads people to take the correct steps to accomplish their goals. ^1
  2. Findability refers to the quality of being locatable or navigable. At the item level, we can evaluate to what degree a particular object is easy to discover or locate. At the system level, we can analyze how well a physical or digital environment supports navigation and retrieval. ^2