case study
MOC Complex CMS-Driven Frontend with Advanced Animations & Interactive Maps
CMS Integration
Advanced Animations
Interactive Maps
Performance
overview
MOC
We partnered with an international enterprise client to deliver a high-performance, CMS-driven web platform. The project focused on translating high-fidelity Figma designs into a scalable frontend solution featuring advanced animations, interactive maps, and reusable UI components, while maintaining excellent performance across devices and languages.
Sector
Services
Frontend Development
CMS Integration
UI/UX Implementation
Technologies
Frontend
CMS
Animation
Interactive Maps
Square21 designed and delivered a modular, component-based frontend architecture built for long-term scalability and CMS flexibility. Our approach included robust project setup with strict linting, type safety, and staging workflows, along with a global design system implementation aligned with Figma guidelines. The result is a visually striking, high-performing platform that empowers content editors while delighting end users.
challenges
Balancing visual richness with performance
Complex Design Translation
Translating complex Figma designs into pixel-perfect, production-ready components while maintaining design fidelity across all screen sizes and devices.
Animation-Performance Balance
Balancing heavy animations with fast load times on content-rich pages, ensuring smooth user experience without sacrificing page performance.
Dynamic CMS Integration
Integrating dynamic CMS content into navigation, layouts, and components while maintaining flexibility for non-technical content editors.
Interactive Map Complexity
Implementing highly detailed interactive maps with advanced animations, representing the most technically demanding feature of the entire platform.
what we changed
Our solutions
1
Project Setup & Design System
We established a robust foundation with comprehensive project setup and a global design system implementation:
CMS integration with flexible content architecture
Frontend architecture with strict linting and type safety
Staging workflows for quality assurance
Design tokens and reusable styles aligned with Figma guidelines
Responsive breakpoints with multilingual edge-case handling
2
Component Development
Square21 built a comprehensive library of reusable UI and content components to ensure consistency and development speed:
UI elements & CTAs: Buttons, icons, badges with hover, focus, and active states
Navigation & header components: CMS-driven menus with responsive behavior and animation-safe headers
Text & content components: Modular building blocks optimized for content-heavy pages
Unique custom components: Visually distinct, animation-heavy elements built with performance in mind
3
Interactive Maps & Page Layouts
The interactive maps formed the core visual experience of the platform, requiring specialized development attention:
Highly detailed, animated map components with smooth interactions
Performance-optimized rendering for complex geographic visualizations
CMS-driven page layouts built directly from Figma designs
Real-content validation ensuring design integrity across all pages
results and impact
See our success stories
Delivered an enterprise-grade frontend aligned pixel-perfectly with Figma designs across all breakpoints.
Achieved smooth animations across complex, content-heavy pages without compromising performance.
Built a scalable component system enabling faster future iterations and consistent UI patterns.
Delivered CMS flexibility empowering non-technical content editors to manage the platform independently.
Created visually striking interactive maps as the core visual experience without performance trade-offs.
"Square21 delivered a world-class frontend platform that perfectly balanced our ambitious design vision with exceptional performance. Their expertise in complex animations and interactive features exceeded our expectations."
Project Lead
MOC
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