Our collaboration with travel retailer ARI has won a global digital award for excellence.

Formerly known as Aer Rianta, ARI operates in 14 countries across 5 continents, boasting a team of over 3,500 dedicated professionals. Following a global rebrand, ARI teamed up with WONDR to design a new website which would enhance their digital branding experience thus marking a fresh chapter for the company.

The Vega Awards honour digital creators, who pioneer new horizons in an ever-changing landscape, celebrating digital excellence worldwide. Out of 1,200 entries, from 22 countries ARI captured the Gold award for ‘Best Travel/Tourism Website’.

ARI‘s upgraded digital home showcases a modern and user-friendly design, featuring enhanced navigation and functionality. The digital expression of the brand perfectly embodies the company’s new identity and their commitment to providing joy in all they do.

ARI’s guiding principle, “Joy On Your Way,” serves as their north star, and drives them to create a journey filled with joy and discovery for every passenger, whether it’s shopping in their stores or engaging with partners in the boardroom.

About the Vega Digital Awards

Organised by the International Awards Associate (IAA), the Vega Digital Awards recognise excellence in various categories, including Websites, Video, Mobile, Social, Animation, Marketing, and Podcasts, while honouring outstanding digital achievements worldwide.

The judging panel was comprised of over 25 industry experts from around the globe who choose WONDR for a total of 5 awards as part of this years programme. As a result WONDR were also selected in the Top 10 Agency list for the second year in a row.

For the third consecutive year, WONDR’s work has been recognised by the Global Vega Digital Awards.

The 2023 Vega Digital Awards has concluded its first competitive season of the year and has announced its official winners, honouring digital media excellence throughout the world.

This year the awards programmes had over 1,200 submissions from 22 countries worldwide. We collected 5 top awards in the categories for Best Website in Biotechnology, Healthcare, Travel & Tourism, Broadcasting, Radio & Television and Professional Services Website.

The winners were…

But that’s not all…

Thanks to our exceptional performance and remarkable achievements, WONDR has proudly secured the prestigious #6 spot on the highly acclaimed Global Top 20 Agencies List.

Our consistent success in winning numerous awards year after year demonstrates our unparalleled expertise and unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries in our industry. This remarkable achievement is a resounding testament to our unwavering growth and steadfast dedication, solidifying our position as a global leader in delivering top-notch quality work.

Continued Success

This is WONDR’s 13th Vega Global Digital Award since 2021, showcasing the skill and vastness of our talented team. Winning awards in various industries from MedTech, Energy, Insurance, Services & Utilities, FinTech, Banking & Finance, eCommerce, Social Networking and Travel & Tourism.

In total WONDR has collected 55 Design Awards from some of the world’s most prestigious design programmes, including the Webbys (USA), UX Design Awards (Germany) & the Lau Awards (Spain). Hopefully, these awards are the start of another successful year for us as we move towards our 10th year of business.

Thomas added….

“It is our privilege to honour these individuals who are expanding digital horizons every single day. As they continue to push the limits on what’s possible, we acknowledge and honour these leaders of the digital age.”

It’s official, we’re finalists for two awards at 26th annual Spider Awards.

We’re finalists in the category for Best Website for our work on Innovate Health TUH as well as finalists in the Best Large Agency category.

The Spider Awards recognise excellence in website design and development, so it’s an honour to be recognised among the top contenders in our field.

Innovate Health TUH

We’re finalists in the category of ‘Best Website’ for our recent collaboration with Innovate Health Tallaght University Hospital (TUH).

The new website was one of the key outputs from a more comprehensive strategic brand review exercise done in collaboration with Ringers, resulting in a new naming, position and brand identity.

We delivered a new website to support their plans to attract investors and partners in a competitive market which includes household names like the Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School and Stanford Medical School.

WONDR – A Digital Product Practice

We’re finalists in the ‘Best Large Agency‘ category. This award recognises the top agencies that have consistently delivered outstanding work across a variety of projects and clients.

At WONDR, we pride ourselves on our ability to work with a diverse range of clients and deliver results that matter for digital business owners.

It’s been a very successful year as we’ve collected 22 awards from some of the world’s most prestigious design award programmes for clients in fintech, banking, energy, blockchain, healthcare and ecommerce.

This year’s finalist announcement follows on our success in 2022, where WONDR collected a ‘Best in eCommerce’ Spiders Award for Likha Aesthetic Clinic.

We look forward to the awards ceremony, which takes place on March 3rd in the Mansion House, Dublin.

WONDR continues its winning streak by collecting 3 international design awards at the 2022 Vega Global Digital Awards.

We collected 3 awards in the categories for Best Financial Services App, Best Insurance Website & Best Services & Utilities App.

This year the awards programmes had over 1,000 submissions from 20 countries worldwide. The International Awards Associate (IAA) organised the Vega Digital Awards to celebrate digital excellence worldwide, recognising the very best in Websites, Video, Mobile, Social, Animation, Marketing, and Podcasts.

The judging panel was comprised of 22 highly respected and experienced professional experts from 10 countries, who selected three of our entries as winners.

The winners were…

Continued Success

These awards follow on from WONDR’s incredible run of success that saw us collect 22 awards in 12 months from some of the world’s most prestigious programmes. Hopefully, these awards are the start of another successful year for us as we celebrate our 9th year in business.

Dermot added….

“These awards are important as they recognise how WONDR as a team transcends boundaries by using the latest in tech to enable rapid digital transformation.”

We have been selected as finalists in 3 categories at this year’s Digital Media Awards (DMAs).

We’re finalists for Best Website, Best in Financial Services & Best Small Agency.

The Digital Media Awards are now in their 19th year and one of the most well established award programmes in Ireland.

They recognise creativity and innovation across digital media which includes digital content creation, advertising and marketing, mobile media, social networking, app development, web design and development.

Gala Dinner Ceremony

The Digital Media Award winners will be announced at a gala dinner hosted by Alan Shortt on Friday the 11th of November in the Convention Centre at The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin.

For the second year in a row, WONDR has been named as the Best Digital Product Agency Ireland 🇮🇪 by the Global Prestige Awards 22/23.

The Prestige Awards recognise small and medium-sized businesses that have proven to be the best in their market over the past 12 months.

The judging panel selects the winners from over 1,448 entrants based on the businesses that demonstrate the most in the areas of service excellence, quality of the service provided, innovative practices, ethical or sustainable methods of working, as well as consistency in performance.

A better brush doesn’t make you a better artist. After all it’s simply a tool. And as with all tools and innovations, what’s more important than the technology itself, is knowing how and when to use it.

Ensuring that the innovation augments and supports your creative process. Employing it with purpose and precision to refine, but not dictate, your vision. And so it is with AI.

For the last year, WONDR have been practicing design with AI technology embedded directly into our flows and processes. We now predict, with up to 95% accuracy, how real users are going to perceive and interact with our designs and our technology choices.

This allows us to challenge and validate the instinctive decisions all designers bring to products. Though these choices are borne from experience and intuition, they are not beyond question, or improvement. In this way AI acts as a sense-check. An impartial, data-rich challenger providing us with accurate feedback and clear opportunities to refine our work.

We’ve always relied on user testing to validate our approach. This will continue. AI is not quite human, yet. However by harnessing it we have sped up our design process, reduced risk and reduced cost for our clients. Not bad for a new brush.