UI & UX development and branding for Books etc. an online book store
The online book store Books etc. has been going for quite some time and has built up a steady reputation for delivering all manor of books across the globe at very competitive prices. They aging online system was creaking under the pressure and the team were looking for a more robust solution. With that they got in touch with to help them design a much clearer interface for their new online store.
My work involved de-cluttering their store layout, working on strong UI & UX principles to design a platform that was much easier for the user to navigate around the site. We looked at all aspects of the design, from the front-end home page (designing desktop, iPad and mobile views) to the ordering & checkout procedure. I also created design templates for their team to use to design their own section banners, enabling them full control over the new website environment.
My work also involved dove-tailing with their web developers and providing grid structures, design guidelines and all the assets they needed to build the new website.
*NB: work still in progress with the developers
Book Club
Another branding project was to design their Book Club brand.
A simple design was created using the familiar quotation marks of their logotype and using them very large as the center piece focus for a range of small banner ads. I also wrote the fun and poignant headline copy that would appeal to book obsessives everywhere.
Mail Chimp templates
Lastly I designed a mobile friendly Mail Chimp template, which was loaded onto the templates section of their Mail Chimp dashboard. The design was very flexible with a number of layout options enabling his team to quickly build monthly newsletters themselves.
The designs were built with ‘responsive’ grids, so they re-shape and re-flow for mobile phones, rather than squashing down or half of the content being missed off the side.
The Mail Chimp email builder is quite intuitive, and this template I constructed for them has been ideal for their team to adopt and use.
