Corporate site Colibee

Project

Redesign of

corporate site Colibee

My role

UX design

Visual design

Interactive design

Year

2020

Strong digital presence is the key in today’s roughly competitive environment , since 2017, Colibee began its adventure of digital transformation from a traditional consulting company to a modern, appealing and dynamic brand. Redesign the corporate site became a part of this adventure.

Our goal : to create a user-friendly branding tool

The goal of Colibee’s rebranding strategy is to create a modern, appealing and dynamic brand.

Their old website, however, didn’t reflect the new strategy. So the company decided to create a new version that represents colibee's values, facilitates positive user experience through informative and relevant content and navigates potential clients in the right direction.

I collaborated with one marketing speclist and has accomplished all visual and interaction design steps for two months.

old version colibee new version colibee

From traditional consulting company to dynamic, modern and diruptive consulting brand.

Journey of translating goals into digital experience

When we have a lot of rebranding requirements, constraints and politics, a systematic approach is important. The phase of design research allowed us to define a clearer vision. Then design and delivery steps translate goals into digital experience.

colibee corporate design process

Challenge : Between continuity and disruption

The biggest challenge of redesign is to give the site a new look but alway to keep the continuity of old graphic charter. We can't change the branding color entirely, so we need find the way to use old corporate site and old graphic charter smartly.

Through users investigations, we find what users (consultants &clients) and internal drivers really need.

Clients want to find the right candidates for various missions.

Consultants like to find missions, news services and expand their network.

Company expects the new website could generate more leads and be an excellent advertising tool.

The site audit was considered as a panel study that allowed us to better know the site’s own evolution:

Traditional visual style didn’t do justice to the brand purpose;

Bad structure to the content amplified confusion rather than coherency;

No optimised content that could attract potential users from external research engines,no SEO contents.

From the cross-study of benchmark, we had a better vision of consulting industry.

Nowadays dynamic and modern sites are very popular on consulting brands. We need to add a different personal touch to be distinguished from them. So an appealing style with continuity of old graphic chart is paramount for us.

benchmark consulting

Goal-based & problem solving design

The research phase allows us to clarify solutions to all questions and achieve our goals during design phase. Based on above design research results, we decided to make improvements on site structure, content and visual style :

New site structure : to make efficient user-flows between pages and to be SEO friendly. Diffrent users have different entry and different navigation path

Modern, dynamic & appealing visual style that will shine a light on the brand personality. I decided to inscrease brand color's luminosity to make site dynamic without changing colors' value. I planned to create custom images of collage that reflect core values of the company

new sitemap colibee

New sitemap : different users have different entry and different navigation path.

new moodbaord colibee

Moodboard & keywords of visual style : dynamic, modern & disruptive

When we fixed the sitemap and main style (modern, dynamic & disruptive ), I tried making two different versions of prototypes and held a meeting with the marketing team and several consultants to choose the definitive design style. After the discussion, the second version was confirmed. We thought that the second one has more originality. It allows the company to stand out from the standard business world.

prototype plan A prototype plan B01

First propostion of prototype

Seconde propostion of prototype

Bring ideas to reality : consistency make good design.

Finally, once all of the planning and foundation was built, we were ready to play with prototypes for the core desktop and mobile experience. I used "modular system" to design this site, which is more efficient to develop the mobile version and the desktop version at the same time. I went through circles of feedback, but it was pretty easy to move things around without involving design ego for graphics. The main point: each page needs to convey the goal and present main user questions and concerns. This information needs to be structured logically to allow users to scan the page quickly. Content always comes first, once you know what the page needs to achieve you can then focus on elements and graphical composition.

collage image01 collage image02 collage image03 collage image04

I created a serie of collage arts which represent company's values to stand out

We spent two months on this project. I stopped working on the project as the interactiv hifi prototypes were finished. This project didn't be released yet when I quit the company because of the lack of budget. However working on this project helped me know how to combine business goals, users needs and design goals.

mobile modular systeme colibee

Several prototypes of mobile version

interactive prototypes colibee

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