Complex bookings made simple and fun
Discover Children’s Story Centre website
Our studio is filled with light and music.
There are multiple meeting rooms, a well stocked kitchen, and an indoor garden (with fishpond). Talk to us about access needs, environmental factors and any accommodations we might make to enhance your visit. Pop-in for tea and stay to use a spare desk for as long as you need.
11 Greenwich Centre Business Park,
53 Norman Road, Greenwich
London SE10 9QF
Cog is a Certified B Corporation
We’re next to Greenwich train and DLR station. We have a door right on the concourse but it’s different to our postal address. Find us via: what3words.com/hungry.means.author
This video shows the route to take from the train that will arrive at Greenwich rail station from London Bridge. There's a gentle slope next to the staircase.
If you have to come by car, we have a couple of parking spaces. We have a charging point that you are welcome to use if you have an electric car. Call ahead and we'll make sure the spaces are free. Use our postcode (SE10 9QF) to guide you in.
We’d love to hear from you. Use whichever medium works best for you.
11 Greenwich Centre Business Park,
53 Norman Road, Greenwich
London SE10 9QF
Cog is a Certified B Corporation
It's exciting to chat about potential new projects. We don't have a ‘sales’ team or a form to fill in. Call us or give us a little detail via email and we'll get straight back to you.
enquiry@cogdesign.comIf you're a client then you'll be best served by calling us or contacting us via ClickUp, otherwise you can use this dedicated email that reaches all of the digital team.
digital@cogdesign.comThis email hits the inboxes of the people who deal with our bookkeeping and finances.
accounts@cogdesign.comSometimes enquiries don't fall neatly under a heading, do they?
hello@cogdesign.comDiscover Children’s Story Centre website
Discover Children’s Story Centre brings children’s books and stories to life through exhibitions, storytelling sessions and live events across two floors of immersive play spaces.
After successfully winning the credentials pitch, we were appointed to create a new website for them in March 2019.
We worked closely with their whole team to fully understand how the organisation worked, what the website needed to do for them and, most importantly, what it was like for the audiences, including those who wanted to come for a one-off event and those who were regular visitors.
Through workshops and discussions we began to build a picture of their audiences and what would attract and wow them. Discover is unusual in that its ‘audience’ is young children. So the site needed to be perfectly pitched at their parents, guardians and carers. And that audience would be constantly shifting as their children grew out of the target age group.
It was clear that the website needed to be slick and intuitive, especially on mobile devices, allowing quick navigation for time-poor parents.
And the whole site had to embody the sense of play and adventure that is the essence of a day at this incredible story centre.
Perhaps the most knotty problem to try to untangle was around ticketing.
The team at Discover had spent years adapting and wrangling with a previous ticketing provider but the solution was always a compromise. With a move to a new provider (Spektrix) they wanted a solution that was led by the needs of their audiences, not the limitations of the ticketing system.
Unlike most venues, visitors to Discover have to be accompanied (by a guardian or parent). They also need to have bought a day-pass, giving them access to the story centre, if they want to visit a special exhibition or be part of an event (many of which have additional costs and tickets).
Our solution was a “Build Your Day” ticketing concept enabling visitors to easily book a visit on a named date with easy options to purchase additional events for their visit.
We worked closely with the team at Spektrix to work out what was possible and what was practical.
Our solution utilises our own adapted version of their API to sort through ticketing details, reveal availability and marry multiple bookings across different events. It’s a complex set-up that makes the process simple and intuitive for users.
Working with Cog was a pleasure from start to finish. They made the entire process feel very smooth, helping our wider team feed in to the new site.
The team at Discover are passionate about delivering a magical experience to every child that comes through the door. The quality of the website was important to every member of staff. So we involved relatively large groups in every stage of the design and development process.
And, as they signed-off the budgets, we were also keen to make sure we presented the solutions in person to the board of trustees.
After ten months of discovery, design, and development, the new website went live in September 2019.
The team at Cog helped us create a wonderful new site that perfectly conveys the wonder of a visit to Discover. They carefully considered the needs of our audiences and created an entirely bespoke ‘build your day’ functionality that has transformed the way people book their tickets – minimising phone calls and upping our ticket sales overall. The added presence for our charitable messaging and donation prompts have led to an enormous growth in donations online – we estimate a 600+% increase! Working with Cog was a pleasure from start to finish. They made the entire process feel very smooth, helping our wider team feed in to the new site. The post-launch support has been great too.