Casa Blond — Milan Design Week
During Milan Design Week, I worked as part of the team at Blond to hold an exhibition, not only highlighting recent projects but also holding a week-long interactive design session that acted as a platform to share our creative design process with the public. The aim for this exhibition was multi-faceted—on one side it was to introduce Blond and its design process on a global stage, and on the other, it was a tool to launch two very different brands to a relevant and widespread audience. The space was designed to invite users from room to room, with a consistent visual language throughout, yet at the same time capturing the essence of the brands that were being launched.
Client
Fuorisalone
Year
2023
Role
Spatial Design Exhibition Fabrication PR & Brand Strategy Art Direction
The homepage is viewed by millions of people and is an important touchpoint for meeting user needs, starting key tasks and reflecting business aspirations. I began by gathering existing research and insights, distilling them into a concise set of user and business needs.
It became apparent that one of the biggest unknowns was understanding how users felt about discovering inspirational content, as opposed to completing core tasks on the site. We wanted to test this in our concepts by having varying levels of inspirational and seasonal content.
Looking though analytics and data such as from user studies, I identified travel trends amongst customers and found opportunities for seasonal and timely content to adapt to the season, feeling more relevant and helpful for users travelling during different times of the year.
Various art directions were explored, reflecting the purpose behind the concepts. The aim here is to provide testing participants with stimuli that helps us probe for their opinion on how the design language could potentially evolve in the future.
Concept 1 — Task Focus
Concept 2 — Resource Focus
Concept 3 — Content Discovery Focus
These concepts were presented to users in focus groups and depth interviews, helping us understand how they felt about content discovery on the homepage and their appetite for inspirational advice or promotions, as opposed to focusing solely on completing the task they had in mind quickly then leaving the site.
