Felt Boots
Website Redesign

This is a redesign of the main page of the Felt Boots company. Primary website role is to help potential customers to find the right shoes for them.

Student project made entirely by myself.
Made in March 2020 in 2 weeks.

Felt Boots
Website Redesign

This is a redesign of the main page of the Felt Boots company. Primary website role is to help potential customers to find the right shoes for them.

Student project made entirely by myself.
Made in March 2020 in 2 weeks.

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Problem

Felt Boots manufacturer customers don't know how the modern high-quality felt boots look like. Also, it is unclear why they are a great type of shoes and how to choose them.

Many customers from Moscow did not know that there is a company store in Moscow, where they can try on and buy shoes personally instead of doing that online.

original website
Original website. Originally it was in Russian. My redesign was made in Russian as well. For the purpose of my English-version portfolio, I have translated my redesign into English.

Research, brainstorming and sketching

I decided to break the whole problem into separate small problems and look for the solution for each of them.

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Problem

Research

Solution

Customers don't know how modern high-quality felt boots look like.

I googled for the felt boots images. Since it was a student project we were allowed to use any images from the Internet. I collected some nice-looking images and stored them.

Show pictures of modern felt boots.

Not clear why felt boots are a great type of shoes.

I read several articles and watched a couple of YouTube videos and pulled out main features of the felt boots.

Give main reasons:
1) don't get cold in frost
2) don't rub a shin
3) soft wool
4) help to deal with joint pain

Not stated how to choose felt boots.

I read some articles on that. Also, I looked at competitors websites on how to choose the right shoes.

Give main tips:
1) Size should be bigger than other shoes
2) Should be light
3) Shouldn't have any smell
4) Shouldn't be too soft or too hard

Moscow customers don't know about the store.

I predicted where on the website customers could look for the store and what exactly they want to know.

Give clear info about the store and its location.

sketch-1 sketch-2
A bit of sketching and brainstorming on solutions.
sketch-1 sketch-2
A bit of sketching and brainstorming on solutions.

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Design Process

I have created 27 prototypes in Figma until I was satisfied with the result. Further I am gonna show the main steps of the design process.

Very first and general drawing of what I am gonna do.
Trying to implement my drawing with the real images and text.
After realizing that I have more text and pictures of various shoes, I decided to restructure the page accordingly to the modal grid. However, the logic of the website is still not clear.
I made the website more structured. However, it still does not make an "I-want-this-shoes" impression.

Refinements

I devoted a big amount of space in the bottom of the page to the store info since it was necessary to highlight the store's existence in Moscow. Placing this information higher on the website would not be reasonable since a lot of the company's customers are coming from other parts of Russia.

I focused on pictures rather than tips on choosing the right boots since almost everyone knows how to choose the shoes, but not everyone knows how the modern felt boots look like.

I broke paragraphs into smaller statements since customers will likely read a huge amount of text.

Final Solution

final solution
A variety of felt boots are represented on the website in order to show customers how the modern high-quality felt boots look like.
Reasons why felt boots are a great type of shoes are given.
Tips on how to choose felt boots and size ratio table is given.
Moscow customers are much more likely to find out about the Moscow store since info about it is highlighted on the website.

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