A digital event platform created for Cannes LIONS Live, helping bring the global creative community together through live sessions, on-demand content, speaker profiles, membership experiences, and a new digital festival structure.
Location
London, UK
Date
2020
Contribution
UI/UX, Branding & User Testing
LIONS Live: Creativity Matters was born from a unique need to bring the global creative community together in a virtual space for the first time in nearly 70 years.
Due to the COVID pandemic, the iconic physical event could not happen as usual. Instead, we helped create a digital platform where creatives from around the world could collaborate, learn, and connect during a week-long online experience.
The platform included 40+ hours of masterclasses, expert lectures, short films, live and on-demand content, speaker profiles, festival navigation, awards content, and membership areas designed to keep the creative community connected beyond the event itself.
Cannes LIONS had to become digital for the first time in its history. The challenge was not just to move content online, but to create a future-proof experience that could make the festival more inclusive, accessible, and useful for a global audience.
Because the event was free and open to a global creative community, the platform needed to support high traffic, live sessions, on-demand content, and a clear navigation system that helped users find talks, speakers, schedules, and related content quickly.
The team had only 3 months to design, build, test, and launch the platform while working remotely across different time zones. The challenge was to coordinate design, content, development, and stakeholders without losing quality or clarity.
