With more than 200 episodes, Justus Jonas, Peter Shaw and Bob Andrews have been regular guests not just in German children’s rooms ever since the end of 1970s. Initially as printed books, later primarily as audio books, the series has long since achieved cult status.

Now expanded to include “Die drei ??? Kids”, which is geared towards children between the ages of six and ten, the websites of both series needed to be brought closer together visually and harmonised structurally. For this purpose we developed a basic design, which we only modified on CSS level in the website frontend.

With this project, too, it was important to systematise the design we had developed and to then document it in a pattern library. In doing so, we were not only able to guarantee smooth coordination between the client, designers and developers, but also to adapt the compiled guidelines without much additional effort to the “Die drei ??? Kids” world.

The colour set of The Three Investigators is kept very simple. We took this into account when designing the website and minimised its look to be in blue, red and black combined with white. Each colour has a clear function, which comes into effect consistently in all content elements and modules. For a conclusive user navigation no more is necessary.