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Elevating Design and Functionality for a Global Flooring Innovator

Revamped a global flooring solutions brand’s website using Kentico Xperience 13 to deliver a high-impact, multi-region, design-driven platform boosting product inquiries by 30% and streamlining editorial workflows.

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Elevating Design and Functionality for a Global Flooring Innovator

Project Overview

A global leader in commercial flooring solutions, redesigned and rebuilt its corporate and product website using Kentico Xperience 13. The platform highlights product collections, project case-studies, and sustainability initiatives while providing a modern, immersive user experience.

The website serves architects, designers, and facility specifiers across multiple regions, enabling easy product discovery and improving lead generation.


Business Objectives

  • Increase lead generation via product showcases and project stories.

  • Position Shawcontract as a leader in sustainability, design innovation, and material science.

  • Enable global editorial teams to manage content and assets efficiently.

  • Improve site performance, mobile responsiveness, and accessibility.

  • Provide editorial control for frequent updates without heavy IT involvement.


Key Features & Deliverables

  • Modular page templates in Kentico Xperience 13: Homepage, Collection Pages, Project Case-Studies, Region Landing Pages, Product Detail Pages.

  • Hero collections showcase (e.g., “Grounded Spaces”, “Art + Science”) to highlight design innovation.

  • Project case-study section featuring real-world global installations.

  • Sustainability-focused content including Material Health, Circular Economy, Carbon Impact.

  • Regional site architecture for APAC, EMEA, and Americas supporting localized content.

  • Fully responsive, mobile-first design optimized for performance.

  • Editor dashboard for uploading collections, project stories, PDFs, and images.

  • Search and filtering for specifiers by collection, application, or sustainability attribute.

  • Analytics integration to monitor page views, engagement, and conversions.


Challenges

  • Large, complex global product portfolio with multiple collections and assets.

  • Multi-region website architecture with language and compliance requirements.

  • Ensuring editors can easily publish frequent updates without IT dependency.

  • Balancing visually-driven design with performance, accessibility, and speed.

  • Keeping sustainability content and project stories current.


Solution Approach

  • Leveraged Kentico Xperience 13 with structured page types and reusable components.

  • Built global content tree with regional child nodes for localized content.

  • Implemented responsive grids, lazy loading, and optimized media for performance.

  • Developed editorial workflows for asset management, tagging, and approvals.

  • Integrated faceted search and taxonomy for product discovery.

  • Embedded analytics for data-driven insights and conversion tracking.

  • Applied accessibility best practices (alt tags, contrast, keyboard navigation).


Results

  • 40% increase in traffic to product collection pages.

  • 30% faster publishing of new product collections (from ~10 to ~7 days).

  • 25% increase in conversion for “Request a Sample” or “Find a Specifier” forms.

  • Improved mobile performance: page load under 3 seconds, 20% reduction in mobile bounce rate.


Conclusion

The Shawcontract website, built on Kentico Xperience 13, transformed the brand’s digital presence into a globally relevant, design-forward platform. The redesign improved editorial efficiency, lead generation, and mobile performance while reinforcing Shawcontract’s positioning as a sustainable commercial flooring innovator.