Ayurvedic Self-care
Branding and E-commerce
🤔 Problem
How might we develop an identity to connect and provide for people of colour interested in Ayurvedic herb products?
👨👩👧👦 Users and target audience
The intended target audience is women of colour, who care about their body's health and health of their hair. These women are passionate about self-care and self-love. The audience is also passionate and proud to support and engage with a black-owned business.
👨🏾💻 Role
This was a freelance job, my role was the sole designer in this project. Working with the client closely was crucial, and my responsibilities were, brand identity, illustration, packaging design and product design.
🧠 Process
After agreeing the required work with the client. Research was needed first. This involved interviews with potential users to help develop personas. With an understanding of the target audience and user, generating ideas for the brand could begin. After agreeing the chosen direction with the client, production could begin. This started with the brand identity, then progressed on to packaging and finished with an e-commerce site.
Discovery
Interviews were conducted, recruitment based on people within the client's circle who were fit the target audience. Speaking with these potential users helped me to understand their needs and pain points. Further synthesis using empathy maps and customer journey maps to fully understand the problem an approach moving forward.
Exploration
Various workshops with the client, desk research and sketching of ideas was done to begin to realise our direction of the brand going forward. Various reviews and critiques with the client are taking place here as well. At this point, we tightened our focus on the necessary outcomes, i.e. brand identity, packaging and e-commerce. This included various rounds of iterations and testing.
Brand and production
At this point final assets are produced - the brand by myself; working with various printers for the packaging and print assets and finally e-commerce site design and build by myself (using Squarespace).
📈 Outcome
The outcome was a fully realized brand capable of reaching and engaging with the target audience and user. This extended to social media which would help build the brand's presence. Packaging was also produced, in keeping and aligned with the brand. Finally, an e-commerce site was produced, which could act as the hub of operations for the client, allowing for sales, information and engagement.
The product is in the pre-launch stage, once launched we will be able to measure the early success of the experience and iterate from there based on our insights.