Tris Husbands:
Digital decorator and internet builder for hire.

Hi there!

I'm an interactive designer, graphics designer and general web decorator. I currently live, work and play in Manchester, England.

This is my first self promoting site and has been put together in an attempt to display my latest projects, both personal and professional, experimental and just for fun. If you would like to discuss anything design related, or just want to say hi, it would be great to hear from you. Enjoy!

Case Study: Chelleon Cosmetics

A young but rapidly expanding company, Chelleon cosmetics needed an online presence to reflect the level of service and product ranges they provide to both existing and new customers, and to take advantage of new internet technologies.

They have recently been expanding their range portfolio too so wanted to support these brands and increase their online retail.

By recognising the importance of projecting a positive image online for Chelleon I created a user friendly, tightly focused site architecture that can grow with the companies needs. The site also captures potential customers and stores them in an email marketing system for use in their monthly offers and promotions.

The site is built around the super-flexible Magento ecommerce software platform, enabling Chelleon to easily collate and organise content as and when they need to do so. As well as offering full automated reporting on transactions, stock control and user interaction.

The result has been a huge increase in online sales, great feedback from customers and quickly rising visitor traffic.


After deciding to create a fully fledged e-commerce website we contacted Tris for a quote and design ideas. From that point on we were amazed at the talent and scope of new ideas that were offered. From wire frame images that greatly assisted in allowing us to visualize and change the layout of the site initially to screenshots and mock up's that allowed us to utilize Tris's skills as a designer to create a website that fully surpassed our expectations. The site was completed on time, within budget and with a backend service fully SEO optimized, easy to use and most importantly started creating sales from day one.

Grant Vallely, Company Director

Case Study: New Possibilities

New Possibilities is an organisation offering training, facilitation and consultancy. Supporting a wide range of organisations both big and small to embrace change and develop teams.

The initial conversations and subsequent briefing document focused heavily on these company objectives. New Possibilities felt confident that if contact with perspective clients could be generated by the site then the team could subsequently convert these enquiries into customers. A sense of community and positive working practices resinate throughout the site, with a strong focus on the variety and different ways a user can make this contact.

The top-line navigation revolves around the graphically focused teaching methods employed by the company, and hand drawn graphical elements concentrate user focus towards action steps and calls to action. Informative videos introduce each of the main business sectors and customer testimonials further enforce and promote the desire for open communication.


Tris has recently built our new site and I?m delighted with the outcome. From the start Tris put us at our ease; his approachable style gave us confidence that he would understand what we needed from the site. His ability to listen and convert our ideas into a creative, clean looking web design that reflected the qualities and values of the company was first class. Tris has excellent communication skills, he kept us informed of developments, and gently guided us to keep us on task. Tris used a remote platform that allowed us to see how the site was developing which enabled us to clarify our expectations of the site, ensure that all parties were clear about the functionality of the site and actively participate in the initial design ideas. The interactive tools that Tris used tapped into our visual understanding of the concepts that were discussed. The site was constructed and completed without the need for a face to face meeting, something that I would not have believed to be possible. The whole experience has been quite liberating as I?ve not had to worry about understanding the jargon that usually goes with web design. Tris made the process accessible and pain free!! He may not be very good at remembering jokes but he has an excellent sense of humour that will brighten anyone?s day. I would happily recommend him to anyone who was considering a new website.

Anna Geyer, Company Director

Case Study: Arval UK

Part of BNP Paribas, one of the six strongest banks in the World, Arval is the leading fleet and fuel management company in the UK, offering bespoke fleet solutions in a hugely competitive market.

Arvalcontracthire.co.uk was a vision to become more connected to Arval?s customers and drive awareness of the proposition and ultimately quotes on their vehicle offers. Aimed at a wide range of business types the site needed to strengthen the Arval brand and educate users on the variety of services available.

The sites initial launch in 2009, coupled with an intensive e-marketing and SEO programme saw an immediate increase in quotes generated both online and through Arval?s call centres.

The success of the contract hire site was quickly followed by a road safety portal which further went to strengthen the digital brand and delivered up to date information on the latest news and events from this important area of the business.

Recent international developments to brand guidelines have taken influence from the creative of both sites, and were recently rolled into the fuel microsite which highlighted the core benefits of Arval?s AllStar network. These design elements are currently being implemented into Arval?s UK corporate site.

Case Study: Abode Residential

Abode Residential had an old website that was difficult for visitors to navigate and didn't communicate the rapid change in property availability and their current range of accommodation to let.

The most important aspect of the new site was to allow visitors to quickly establish available locations and make it as easy and efficient as possible to make an enquiry. At the same time the site also needed to promote a number of developments Abode Residential was responsible for managing, so I created a two tier architecture that allowed users to research and locate a development as well as quickly skip through to available properties from both these and individual properties country wide.

The site was redeveloped using Wordpress to allow the client the ability to quickly and easily update the property lists. While the simplicity of the navigation and constant re-enforcement of the main calls to action coupled with the ability to filter the list with multiple criteria produced a well focused and ultimately user friendly online experience.

Case Study: LSN Learning

LSN is a not-for-profit organisation focused on making learning work across the public and private sectors, in the UK and internationally.

After a major re-brand less than 12 months previous, LSN were struggling to incorporate the new guidelines into their e-marketing communications. With multiple user and sector touchpoints a one size fits all solution was hindering the presentation of targeted messages and calls to action.

Identifying and outlining this variety in communications led to a development of the digital brand to partner sets of images, colours and patterns with the subject, recipient and desired user interaction.

A variety of layouts offering choice for the image-to-text ratio were then produced to maximise deliverability. These templates, and the resulting implementation map, gave LSN's internal marketing teams the ability to customise the communications and calls to action to the intended recipients, maximising impact and increasing click through rates where applicable.

Contact

I pride myslef in providing straight talking, no nonsence, creative web design and development. I'm always happy to answer your questions, so please drop me a line using the form below.

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