Stride Design Ltd

Categories

1. Audio guides/systems
2. Guided walks
3. Interactive systems/animatronics
4. Oral History
5. Website design/management

Services

 Stride is a web design and digital media company specialising in location-based projects that offer content via the web and mobile devices.

We put a great emphasis on the design of our projects, both visual and operational, and work closely with you to create resources that are innovative and engaging for the end-user.

We believe that websites and other digital media should be easy for the visitor to use and simple for you to manage through a content management system. We understand database technologies and know how to interface with your existing database to present complex information in a visual way. We offer interactive mapping and multimedia content, such as our innovative DIY trail builder, audio guides, pod casts and apps.

We believe that the web and mobile devices are a cost effective way to deliver exciting interpretive and community experiences. Our do-it-yourself trail builder allows you to design your own trails around your visitor attraction, uploading your own content and pinpointing the stops on an interactive map. This allows you to add new trails and change old ones without having to come back to us.

Stride will put together a friendly team for your project that may include oral historians, writers, researchers, photographers, illustrators and other experts. We tackle each project from a fresh perspective, drawing on our extensive experience and contact base.

Stride’s directors, Victoria Smith and Simon Ruffle, have a multi-disciplinary background in architecture, design and software development. Both are graduates from the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, and are well placed to undertake projects interpreting our natural and built heritage, architecture and local history.

Our services include:
Website design and build
Content management systems
Knowledge management
App design and build
Audio walks
Audio trails
DIY Trail builder
Oral history projects
Written content – research, scripts and copy
Audio production
Map making
Photography
Testing and ongoing support for our web projects

Projects

 What people say about us:

“ Stride’s innovative approach to web design has produced a beautiful, versatile and easily navigated website. Through the website we can promote the extraordinary diversity and beauty of the plants growing here” Professor John Parker, past Director, Cambridge University Botanic Garden,
“Can I firstly say how grateful we are for all the work you have undertaken on the new Mill Road Cemetery website, it is absolutely brilliant and much better than anything I had envisaged - so thank you!”
Sarah Tovell, Green Space Officer, Active Communities, Cambridge City Council
“I am not surprised the Public Health audio walk is popular as I greatly enjoyed it myself. We were expertly guided through some of the iconic sites in Cambridge, with highlighting of places and buildings of particular relevance to Public Health history.” By email
“My wife, daughter and I completed the audio tour today on a beautifully hot day in Cambridge. We enjoyed the tour enormously, the commentary was very interesting and well done.” By email

Some selected projects:

Cambridge Audio Walks
Four downloadable Stride Guide audio walks for the University of Cambridge, complete with photographs and maps.

Mill Road Cemetery
www.millroadcemetery.org.uk
This community-run web resource features a Stride DIY Trail builder, and has become a well-used focus for the local community.

Darwin's Beagle Plants
Here are images of the very plants collected by Darwin on HMS Beagle, now held in the University of Cambridge Herbarium.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden

www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
This site is loaded with beautiful photographs and has a splendid interactive map - a showcase for all the garden has to offer. The site is easily updateable by the client.

Fitzwilliam Museum Gallery Guide
Stride researched, designed and implemented the Floor Plan and Interactive Guide to Galleries for the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Selected clients:
Cambridge City Council
Cambridge and County Folk Museum
East Herts District Council
Fauna and Flora International
Fenland District Council
Fitzwilliam Museum
Friends of Mill Road Cemetery
University of Cambridge
Visit Cambridge
Wisbech Town Council