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Beattys Driveline

A driveline specialist trading since 1963, with a deep technical catalogue organised so engineers can actually find the part they need.

Role
Design & front-end build
Year
2024
Location
New Zealand
The Beattys Driveline website

The situation

Beattys have been driveline and driveshaft specialists since 1963. The challenge was structural rather than cosmetic: an extensive range of driveshafts, componentry and services spanning multiple industries, all needing to be navigable by trade customers who know exactly what they're looking for — and by those who don't.

What I did

  • 01A structured product architecture across driveshafts, componentry, services and industrial balancing
  • 02Industry-based navigation so customers can arrive from their own sector and find relevant products
  • 03Technical resources and project examples presented as credibility, not clutter
  • 04Prominent 'talk to an expert' routes on every level, because this is a consultative sale
  • 05Multi-region support built into the navigation

How it went

From first conversation to live.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    Sixty years of trading leaves you with a lot of product. The real work here was information architecture, not visual design — mapping how driveshafts, componentry, services and industrial balancing actually relate, and how a customer in agriculture versus mining versus transport would each expect to find their way in.

  2. 02

    Look & feel

    For an industrial specialist, credibility comes from looking competent rather than fashionable. We used a restrained palette with a single strong accent, generous space around technical content, and photography of real machining work — the equipment does more for trust than any illustration would.

  3. 03

    Build

    Two parallel entry paths were built: browse by product category, or arrive through your own industry and see only what's relevant. A 'talk to an expert' route sits on every level, because at this level of specification most enquiries become a conversation, and the site's job is to start it rather than to close a sale.

  4. 04

    Launch

    Launched with the full catalogue structured, multi-region support in place, and technical resources organised so the sales team could point customers at them directly.

  5. 05

    Support

    A catalogue this size is never finished — new componentry, new industries, new project examples. The structure was built so additions slot into the existing architecture rather than requiring it to be reworked.

Notable

  • Product architecture spanning four top-level categories
  • Parallel navigation by product and by industry served
  • Persistent 'talk to an expert' route on every level
  • Multi-region support built into the information architecture
  • Technical resources and project work as trust signals

The result

A technical catalogue that stays usable at depth, and puts a specialist conversation one click away from any page.

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