LDAP - or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - is a system for maintaining a directory of employees or other people. With over 400 staff in the UK offices, Future needed a serious solution for people to quickly find job and contact information about members of other teams.

The brief was to develop an elegant, user-friendly interface to run on a PHP backend, connecting to a central LDAP server.

Our research showed that speed and ease-of-use were critical to this application - otherwise staff would just phone the switchboard and ask to be put through. Over time, this becomes expensive.

We created a simple search, list and detail interface, giving users the option of seeing a simple or advanced search baron every page.

Now Future people can get to know each other better :).

Seriously, this is a surprisingly popular piece of work, when you consider how mundane its function is. But Plum understands that using good design to make life's little chores easier and more enjoyable can have a real impact.