RIM International

13 design versions in one night, then a mobile pass where every scene fits the screen.

Business context

What the client needed

A scroll film for a discreet matchmaking house: a wax-seal prologue, halls instead of pages, and six cities with live local clocks.

A house, not an app: no profiles online, no swiping, no leaks. The site had to carry that promise in every frame - and never show a face.

User stories

What people do with it

• As a prospective client, I want to understand how the house works before I write, so that I trust it with something this private.
• As a prospective client, I want to see the cities where the house works, so that I know it can meet me where I live.
• As the house, we want the site to show details and never faces, so that our promise of discretion holds from the first screen.

Key challenges

What made it hard

• 01
  Scrolling as a deck of scenes. One gesture moves one scene in 650 ms, the trackpad inertia tail is cancelled, keys work, and touch stays native.
• 02
  A mobile viewport that kept jumping. The document is locked and the body scrolls, so the browser toolbar stops resizing the page.
• 03
  A Safari-only crash. A variable named top shadowed window.top and took down the whole animation engine in WebKit.

Results

What we delivered

Technology