PANGEA PROPULSION — SPACE TECH

Daniel Esquivel

PANGEA PROPULSION

The main CTA: We'll tell you how

(the question)

How do you design a website for people who will never buy from it, only decide whether to trust you?

(the idea)

Let the hardware do the talking. Real engines in real-time 3D that you can turn, open and read, and a scroll that explains rocket technology one idea at a time.

(services)

Web design · UX/UI · Interaction & motion · Component library

(client)

Pangea Propulsion

(role)

Lead designer, web

(year)

2025

01 · THE BRIEF BEHIND THE BRIEF

Pangea had just become Propulsion. Its visitors are space agencies, governments, engineers and investors. They don’t come to buy; they come to check. The old site was slow, static, and it explained products that even the team was still defining.


02 · A BRAND ON PAPER, A SYSTEM ON SCREEN

The identity was brand new, built for print and presentations, not for interfaces. On screen it became a type scale, a palette reduced to black, white and one electric blue, and the methane-blue glow as the backdrop for motion. On top, controls with every state defined and the pieces only this site needed: a 3D object control, a product selector, the gallery and the video player. Built as tokens from the start, alongside the final designs, so the system can grow with the brand.


03 · PRODUCTS YOU CAN OPEN

Four engines at four different stages; one existed only as a CAD file. Each product page is built around a live WebGL model rendered in real time. Turn it, select a feature, and the engine explains itself. Text stays folded until you ask for it, on glass panels that never hide the hardware.


04 · TECHNOLOGY, ONE SCROLL AT A TIME

Dense engineering, told as a sequence. Choose a technology and the selector moves to the top with a progress bar. Every highlight reveals itself as you advance.


05 · BUILT FOR WHAT WASN’T READY YET

Content and renders arrived late. So every behaviour was written into the design for the developers: how the 3D enters, what expands, what loads next. Version one launched in July. News, Partners and Projects followed in October, in three languages.

(the result)

Two releases in under three months, in English, Spanish and French. World Brand Design Society, Bronze, 2026.

The Pangea website loading on a monitor: the symbol on black
Building the Pangea symbol on a grid: seven arms at 51.43°
Colour palette
The team at work on an engine
Foundations: the grid
Type: building the D
Technologies, one scroll at a time
Design system: controls, forms and CTAs
The website on a phone, in hand
The Cryox engine, studio shot
The Cryox engine on the website
Products: the electric pump on the blue glow
Engine hot-fire test at DLR Lampoldshausen
The website on mobile: fully focused on propulsion
The main CTA: We'll tell you how
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(info)

Senior digital designer based in Barcelona.

Product design and UX/UI at the core, with

branding and art direction in the mix.

DANIEL ESQUIVEL. 2026 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

(policies)

Esquivel

(info)

Senior digital designer based in Barcelona.

Product design and UX/UI at the core, with

branding and art direction in the mix.

DANIEL ESQUIVEL. 2026 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

(policies)

Esquivel

(info)

Senior digital designer based in Barcelona.

Product design and UX/UI at the core, with

branding and art direction in the mix.

DANIEL ESQUIVEL. 2026 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

(policies)

Esquivel