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Fresh leadership at the helm and new brand direction led Yoshinoya to contact us to give their website a modern design and align it with the evolution of their company.
In an effort to freshen their presence in the US, they were in the process of remodeling restaurant locations and rebranding them as ‘Japanese kitchens’. They had previously worked with a few different designers to overhaul their outdated website and bring it in line with the new look, but were not happy with the results. Looking for a different perspective and seeking design expertise, they reached out to us for help.
We were more than happy to jump into a discovery session with their team to talk about what they wanted in their new website designs. We specifically wanted to know what their goals were for the redesign, preconceptions they hoped to reshape, and where the previous design attempts had failed.
Invigorated by the challenge, we jumped into a collaborative wireframing session to lay out the content for the homepage of the site. With that in place, we moved on to defining the rest of the architecture and wireframing the remaining pages.
One of the things we had been asked to do was put “food first”. This request played a hefty role in how we planned to lay out content across the site. Consequently, a large part of our UX strategy hinged on determining what types of images we needed to mix with the supporting copy to help us accomplish the goals of the redesign.
Going the extra mile, we presented various design directions to their team for their input on which they felt would help them best accomplish their goals. Pleased with the options, they honed in on the one that presented their new values the best, and we worked with them to apply and finalize the designs across all the pages on the site.
Since we weren’t contracted to do the development for the site, once the design phase was complete we handed the design files over to their team.
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