Monsoon Accessorize

During a year at Open Reply I took care of all of Monsoon Accessorize's tablet and mobile campaigns — a sustained body of front-end work across 2013–2014: responsive mobile and tablet templates, reusable systems, and a run of seasonal campaigns, all tested and integrated into the Hybris commerce platform.

Monsoon Accessorize needed a steady stream of mobile and tablet experiences to keep its e-commerce presence current — both the ongoing evolution of its core responsive templates and a run of one-off seasonal campaigns. The work had to ship fast, hold up across mobile and tablet in multiple languages, and slot cleanly into the existing commerce platform every time.

As front-end engineer I owned both sides of that. On the steady-state work I maintained and evolved the core responsive mobile and tablet templates on a weekly release cadence, with multilingual support across five languages, and built reusable, configurable systems — including an extensible tabbed mobile template designed to be reused across future campaigns rather than rebuilt each time.

Alongside that I delivered a series of standalone campaigns: an interactive twelve-day Christmas advent calendar awarding a different prize each day, the SS14 Fusion catalogue with JavaScript-driven animation to merchandise the spring/summer collection, and a BAFTA competition entry experience for Accessorize that captured participant data through a PHP/MySQL back end.

The result was a dependable stream of shipped work — a year of templates, systems and campaigns delivered steadily and without disruption to the live store. The investment in reusable, configurable templates paid forward too, cutting the effort each new seasonal push demanded.