SARGENT manufacturing is a premier U.S.-based manufacturing of door hardware. Their website is designed for architects, spec writers and distributors.
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Interactive Media Award:
Outstanding Achievement
SARGENT is all about products - and they have a lot. The site was designed to allow users to easily get to products they needed, or to introduce them to new products they may not have been aware of.
To the right is a zoomed in section of the landing page for exit devices.
Individual product pages contain a wealth of information. Some products have dozens of functions, finishes and options. Tabs allow the user to browse all this content without losing their place. Hover elements allow new content to be shown without creating clutter on the page.
One of SARGENT's toughest challenges was helping distributors with custom quotes. Often it meant ripping out pages from the catalog and photocopying them with annotations. We worked out a way to use the product database from the CMS to help distributors create custom "cutsheets" that they could tweak and deliver in the form of a professional PDF. Distributors loved it and were soon asking other manufacturers, "Hey, why aren't you doing this like SARGENT?"
How do you help someone find a document when there are 12,000 to choose from? How do you display the results when you have documents that have 8 types, 50 subcategories and individual versions? We created this document library that allows users to see exactly where they are in the hierarchy without losing their place and to see all the available documents for their selection.
We created a custom CMS for the project that mimicked how the website worked on the front end in order to minimize training. In this example, the user is selecting trims for a particular product to be shown on the main site.