Helping Local Business Store to Thrive with e-Commerce
Website UX Design
Year
2021
Role
UX Design, User and Market Research, Figma Wireframing and Prototyping, Usability Testing,
Google Slides Presentation
Client
General Assembly
A student project for UX Design Immersive course at General Assembly.
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The Challenge
Creating an e-commerce site to support a local gardening store
“More than at any time in our past, we are living in big towns and cities and often in confined living spaces, spending work and leisure time in the digital world, without much connection to the natural world that we’re inherently part of. Being around plants is a kind of antidote to our busy, urban, digital lives.”
– Denise Law
(Tumbleweed founder)
Last year’s COVID hit our sales as we weren’t able to open our shop. A lot of our consumers has no access to greenery too since they are locked down. After the circuit breaker more people start picking up gardening as a way to relieve stress*
Brand Guideline
Greenerds, a fictional brand birthed to illustrate a local garden store
We are located at the heart of Caldecott and been here since 2012. We have been serving the local community and we would like to invite you to our store to relieve your green obsession.
Key Learnings
Through User and Market Research, we arrived at our key learnings
Some untapped potential consumers don’t use e-commerce when they want to shop for plants/ gardening
The motivation behind their purchase and their behaviours, such as lifestyle, environment, recipients, delivery method, etc
There is a lack of educational information on plant care online
User Personas
Who are we designing it for?
Rookie Plant Hobbyist
Jessica needs a way to easily discover and purchase a plant online because she wants to get the right plant for her lifestyle.
The Loving Husband
Michael needs a way to easily discover and purchase a gift online for her wife because she is a plant lover.
Solutions
Here is how Greenerds website can benefit users
The video demonstrates how consumers can check out the section/ sub navigation called “Take a Quiz” to show the best plant matches for them by answering sets of questions to purchase plants.
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This video demonstrates how consumers can customise their gift options before adding the item to the cart/ checkout.
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Play around with the demo prototype below
images used in prototype come from various sources (Tumbleweed, pinterest, google, other local garden shop)
Responsive Layout
Future Considerations
Where to go next?
The project could use few more wireframes and detailed demonstrations to navigate to other pages with prototyping. Through usability testing, I found out it would be good to have actual photos of the plant itself (inventory) as well, due to the uniqueness of each plant.