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Case study - Web · UX/UI · Marketing B2B2C 2010–2015 · Spain

RIU Hotels — five years of digital craft.

Five and a half years at one of the world's biggest holiday hotel groups, moving from web designer to UX/UI designer to B2B/B2B2C marketing. Front-end, digital campaigns and UX across four RIU platforms.

Roles
Web · UX/UI · Marketing B2B2C
Duration
May 2010 – Nov 2015 · 5.5 yrs
Sector
Hospitality · international
Location
Mallorca, Spain
NDA
Confidential · work retained by the company
5.5
Years at the group
3
Progressively senior roles
4
Digital platforms
B2B×2
B2B and B2B2C scope
Nº 01 - The company

One of the world's
great hotel brands.

RIU Hotels & Resorts runs more than 100 hotels across 20 countries. Founded in Mallorca in 1953, it sits between mass-market scale and premium experience, with a strong B2B network of travel agents and partner clubs alongside its direct B2C channels.

Career progression at RIU

Web Designer

Front-end design and development for riu.com: cross-browser work, HTML/CSS, page redesigns and maintenance of the main corporate site.

UX / UI Designer

UI and UX across four RIU platforms: responsive web, front-end, HTML emails, online campaign design and usability for riu.com, riuplaza.com, riuagents.com and riupartnerclub.com.

Marketing B2B / B2B2C

Ideation, execution and rollout of B2B and B2B2C promotional campaigns, working with internal comms teams on assets for travel agents, corporate clients and direct consumers.

Crimson Red
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Prestige Gold
#C9A84C
White
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Nº 02 - Scope of work

Five years of digital
work at scale.

Front-end web development

HTML5, CSS3 and responsive design across several RIU properties, with cross-browser testing and validation to production standards.

UX & UI design

User experience and interface work across riu.com, riuplaza.com, riuagents.com and riupartnerclub.com, for millions of users a year.

Digital marketing campaigns

Banners, landing pages, newsletters and promotional email for B2B and B2B2C audiences across markets.

HTML email design

Design and HTML coding of promotional and transactional email, responsive and tested across major clients.

B2B partner platform design

UI and UX for riuagents.com and riupartnerclub.com, the platforms for travel agents and corporate partners.

Graphic & print design

Brochures and printed promotional material for travel partners, keeping the brand consistent across digital and print.

Nº 03 - Digital properties

Four platforms.
One design team.

The work spanned four distinct properties, each with its own audience, information needs and conversion goals. Keeping them visually and functionally consistent while meeting each one's demands was the core challenge.

riu.com
Main corporate site · B2C booking
riuplaza.com
Premium sub-brand · upscale properties
riuagents.com
Travel agent portal · B2B
riupartnerclub.com
Partner loyalty programme · B2B2C

Work confidential under company agreement. Every asset, campaign and deliverable from this period is the property of RIU Hotels & Resorts and can't be shown publicly. The scope is described here; the full portfolio is available to qualified prospects on request.

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