Case Study
Customer Persona
The first key decision I took was identify who would use this website.
Let’s say a sample group like this:
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Professional/ Business Owner
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Age: 28-40
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Income: 10 LPA & Above
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Urban
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Approach
Secondary research on the competitor brands and similar websites
Customer Journey
1. To buy/look up one specific product.
2. To explore the product range and gain knowledge.
Problems
Lack of Information Hierarchy.
Cluttering of unnecessary information.
For the scope of this project, I am considering these as the main problems.
Existing Design
SOLUTION
The sole intention of this exercise is to unclutter the unnecessary information and create a smooth information flow to the IFB Website.
1. Header
Observations
The current header had information that was unnecessary and could be shifted to the footer.
Solutions
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Removed the unnecessary information such as Location, Store locator, Offers, Support, About us, Blog
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Tied up the Search, Log in and Cart as icons
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Opened up the Product section to optimize the Navigation bar
For a customer, this would provide an initial framework on the kinds of products the brand has to offer.
2. Landing
Observations
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The banner covers up the entire screen.
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No breadcrumbs on what's coming next
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No breathing space.
Solutions
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Removed the unnecessary information such as Location, Store locator, Offers, Support, About us, Blog
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Tied up the Search, Log in and Cart as icons
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Opened up the Product section to optimize the Navigation bar
2. Product Mix Scroll
Observations
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The size of the product scroll was inadequate and would be easy to miss.
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A poor choice of product photography style for the image size.
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The IFB care tab seems out of place.
Solutions
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Increased the size of the product scroll to fit the Header width.
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Used simple and clear product photos.
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Added clear indication to more products by covering the last image partially and adding a button.
4. What’s New
Observations
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The gift vouchers and modular kitchen tiles seems out of place.
Solutions
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Removed the gift vouchers and modular kitchen tiles.
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Made it a specific section for the new launches along with the buying options.
5a. Product Segregation
Observations​
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There was no Information hierarchy.
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There was no titles and sub sections.
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The main CTA “SHOP LAUNDRY” that connects to the main laundry page is lost in the clutter.
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The two large blog tiles seems out of place.
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Too many full bleed imagery adds to the clutter and leaves the user confused.
Solutions
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Provided titles to each sections
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Added a tab listing the products under each section. (Front Load | Top Load | Washer Dryer | Dryer). This would enable the user to glance though each product category swiftly and gain an over all knowledge on each of them. This would also reduce the number of clicks as the user will have a zoomed out view of all the products in each section.
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Maintaining the same collage style, I assigned the bigger tile to call out the important merchandise and other tiles to celebrate the USP features, creating a hierarchy.
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Added a prominent CTA to the shop section and a different CTA to learn more about the features.
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Confined this to a desirable height so as to hint the users the next sections.
These points apply to the next 2 sections as well - Living Solutions and Kitchen Solutions.
5b. Product Segregation
Observations​
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No titles.
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The space the (Essentials) section takes does not justify the product mix hierarchy.
Solutions
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Contained the essentials into a tile which is half the width.
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Added the “Modular Kitchen” tile to this section.
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Provided titles and a brief introduction to each section.
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Added a prominent CTA to the shop section and a different CTA to learn more about the features.
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Also, added CTAs to each tile that takes you to their respective shop pages.
Modular Kitchen Tiles were repeated and spread across the website without any context. Adding it here would give the user a structured product segregation.
6. Live the Experience
Observations​
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Modular Kitchen tile does not make sense here.
Solutions
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Removed the Modular Kitchen tile.
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Added the Blog Post tile here (Removed from the Product Segregation section)
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Replaced the photos with icons. (Since too many photos were already used in the above sections)