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2015 saw mobile phone usage at an all time high on PhysiciansFormula.com. We jumped at the opportunity to craft a site catered to mobile visitors.
For the past couple of years, we had been keeping an eye on the increasing number of mobile devices used to view their website, and in 2015 website usage steadily increased to from around 40% to 60% coming from mobile devices.
Even though we had been building the website to be responsive for the past 3 years, we previously used a desktop-first design approach. With the surge of mobile device usage (and with no sign of mobile device usage declining in the near future!), we decided 2016 was the right time to use a mobile-first design approach for the refresh.
This meant that we had to be incredibly intentional about what content we put in this space, so that users would be engaged from their first glance and would want to scroll down the page to see more.
During the UX strategy phase we spent a lot of time building out wireframe prototypes and testing them for usability on small screens. No screen or piece of content was taken for granted – everything was customized to produce the best possible experience.
During the refresh, we also made several small changes that added up to major site wide improvements. We removed the carousel on the homepage (due to low conversion rates), added user-generated content to all product pages (social proof is shown to increase conversion), pulled related content onto product pages (awards, press mentions, product finders, and more), built out focused tutorial video pages (with related products linked for easy purchase), added social feeds to the site, and added product finding resources to select the perfect product for you, just to name a few!
Incorporating strong branding elements across the site gave everything a distinctly “Physicians Formula look”, and our development team used best practices when developing the site on a custom .NET responsive framework.
Having worked with Physicians Formula for several other site refreshes, it was tradition to ring in the New Year with a rejuvenated website. As the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, the new mobile-first website design went live for all to see.
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