The Savoy

Design: Pentagram + Christine Hvam Nielsen

Programming: Kenneth Folman

Type: Hotel GUI

The Savoy is a Five-Star luxury hotel located on the Strand in central London.

One of my favourite parts of this project was the "in-room cinema" section, and the challenges it created when programming the GUI.

The rest of the Savoy GUI had led us to using a horizontal Cover Flow-like way of displaying the movies, and that kind of navigation naturally leeds you to the idea that you can move forwards and backwards in the movies.

The problem was that the current function/API, for displaying movies in that version of the GUI, didn't really offer that natural navigation backwards in the list of movies. 

After some days of "thinking outside the box", I was able to come up with a semi-dynamic solution that bypassed the current function/API, for displaying movies, but worked so that you could navigate forwards and backwards in the movies fluently.