Designing a digital experience for a luxury home builder
Website design
About Simonini
Simonini Homes is a luxury, family owned home building business. As the Southeast’s premier custom homebuilder in Charlotte, North Carolina, they offer unparalleled quality and customer service, which serve as the cornerstone of their organization.
Simonini is passionate about providing a great customer experience and enthusiastic about crafting individual homes, transforming homes through renovations and creating exceptional neighborhoods that not only satisfy our clients in every detail, but also stand the test of time.
What will you see in this project?
1. The old website home page
2. Sitemap
3. Content and user journey mapping
4. Page structure mapping
5. The new website home page
6. Mobile views of the home page
TOOLS:
SketchApp
Flowmapp
Zeplin
Before the Redesign / Home Page
The client desires a content-rich website to push the buyer through each stage of the buying journey, from first touch all the way through to building or purchasing their home. At the same time, this website will support the sales team through answering questions and providing information for sales-ready leads.
(Above) Sitemap
After dissecting Simonini’s website, the main goal was to simplify the website and reduce user friction. The current website has multiple entry points to specific pages that could be confusing for the user to recall.
(Above) Site Content Planning
This sitemap is a comprehensive overview of where content holes exist, the user journey, technical specifications, and the goal of each page of the website.
We identified technical specifications that exist within the website that we will need to include in development.
After learning our limitations with design, we will create prototypes that account for this.
Organizing Information & Developing the Page Structure
After identifying content sections in the sitemap content planning document, we set up the page structure within “Flowmapp.com,” a sitemap and UX tool that includes cross collaboration between team members.
Wireframe
(Still in Progress) After Redesign / Home Page
Overview of Neighborhoods Page
Pop-Up Modal