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From flagship windows to digital expression

Sarah Feather Design creates award-winning window displays and visual merchandising for luxury brands across the globe. Their work is theatrical, precise, and unapologetically bold. When they needed a website to match their refreshed brand, the challenge was clear: translate that same intentionality into a digital experience.

Collaborating with a client who knows design as well as we do comes with a unique set of challenges. Fifteen iterations later, we achieved a result that satisfied everyone involved and brought out the best of all ideas and crafts. A site that feels as crafted and intentional as the displays Sarah Feather builds for the world's most discerning brands.

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Client Sarah Feather Design

An award-winning Central London agency specializing in retail window displays and visual merchandising for luxury and high street brands worldwide. With over 20 years in the business, Sarah Feather creates conceptual designs, manages production, and oversees installation for global rollouts and bespoke flagship treatments. Their work is bold, theatrical, and meticulously crafted.

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Agency ROX | digital agency

ROX is a digital agency located in Rotterdam that specializes in helping companies with their digital growth. Through a combination of strategic advice, polished designs and custom software development, they create web applications that are future-proof, scalable and improve work efficiency.

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Role UI/UX Design

Contracted by Swid Studio to design the digital experience for Sarah Feather's refreshed brand. I was responsible for translating the editorial brand vision into a functional, responsive website — designing layouts, establishing interaction patterns, and ensuring the design could be built within technical constraints. Initially presenting through Swid, I later joined client meetings directly to defend design decisions and bridge the gap between brand vision and development realities.

Delivery 2025-2026

Nine months from kickoff to launch, navigating fifteen design iterations, evolving content, and the complexities of translating static brand guidelines into a dynamic, scroll-driven digital experience.

Identity Wing

When your client stages luxury for a living.

Sarah Feather Design doesn't just decorate windows — they choreograph experiences. Every display is a carefully composed story: lighting, materials, scale, and movement working together to stop people mid-stride and pull them in.

For over 20 years, they've crafted window displays and visual merchandising for global luxury and high street brands. Their work is bold, theatrical, and uncompromising. Every element is intentional. Every detail is considered.

This isn't a client who needs to be convinced that design matters. They live it. Which meant the website couldn't just look good — it had to feel as crafted, as deliberate, and as confident as the installations they create.

The bar was high. And they knew exactly what they were looking for.

Team meeting at Sarah Feather
Mobile mockups of the new website
Grand Hall Shortcut to visual designs

Chamber of Constraints

Where brand vision meets technical reality, and neither compromises.

Safewords

Click the checkboxes to agree to the project conditions.

Typography Preferred because of client direction
Rich motion language Preferred because of organization
Statamic Preferred because of process
WCAG 2.1 AA Rejected because of client direction
Design System
Content Design
Agile Preferred because of timeline

Operations Hub

Standards built through iteration

Working with a client who understands design as deeply as their own craft required a different approach. Through fifteen iterations and constant refinement, we established pillars that guided every decision — not theoretical principles, but practical standards that kept the work sharp, buildable, and true to the brand.

These weren't just criteria. They were commitments.

Editorial Design

The brand was editorial — bold typography, image-led layouts, compositions inspired by magazine spreads. Every page needed to feel intentional, crafted, like a curated experience rather than a template. Big decorative text, creative grid systems, whitespace that breathes. The challenge: making it work across devices without losing that deliberate, art-directed feel.

Legibility Over Decoration

Decorative fonts look stunning in headlines — until they don't. The brand leaned into bold, expressive typography, but the site still needed to be readable. We defended font sizes, line heights, and contrast to ensure legibility never got sacrificed for style. Beautiful, yes. But functional first.

Motion as Storytelling

Sarah Feather stages experiences in physical space — revealing products through lighting, movement, and composition. We translated that into scroll-driven animations: sticky text, images sliding in from below, lines drawing between sections to show progression. These couldn't be prototyped in Figma. Timing, distance, and rhythm had to be fine-tuned in development. The effect had to feel inevitable, not gimmicky.

Design for Development

Static designs are never the final product. We set up the system to allow for easy tweaks — modular layouts, flexible grids, spacing that could adapt. When content changed (and it did, constantly), the design flexed without breaking. When responsive behavior needed adjustment, the structure supported it. Design isn't done when the file is handed off — it's done when it's built and working.

Collaboration Over Handoff

Initially, feedback traveled through Swid Studio — a necessary layer, but one that slowed decisions and risked losing nuance. We evolved the process: I joined client meetings directly to explain design reasoning and technical trade-offs in real time. We introduced weekly sprint demos during development so Sarah Feather could preview work-in-progress, finalize content decisions, and refine details without waiting for a finished product. The timeline stayed on track because the process adapted to reality.

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Homepage variations
Animation hero impression
Editorial layouts
Mobile mockups of the new website

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