Wish Hotels: four CSS Design Awards in 2020

Before three.js, there was the web. In November 2020 the new Wish Hotels website, developed by Neotix, was recognized in four categories of the CSS Design Awards 2020.

The awards #

• Special Kudos, from the jury,
• Best UI Design, in the popular vote,
• Best UX Design, in the popular vote,
• Best Innovation, in the popular vote.

The announcement was published on the Neotix blog on November 16, 2020. You can see the site and its CSS Design Awards page.

What was special about it #

The brief was performance, animation and SEO, based on the concept of the brand: design, well-being, gastronomy and entertainment. Two technical choices I explained at the time:

• the site is pre-processed and kept in RAM, to reduce page load time,
• the CSS loads only what is displayed on the screen, so each page is lighter and faster.

It is the same instinct I still have today: ship less, ship what is needed, measure. You can see it in how I make a WebGL portfolio readable, and in the performance posts of Threejs-Punk.

Thanks #

To the Neotix team, and to the hotel group that trusted us with the brand's new image.