MCONTRAST Case Study

Digital Platform for Workplace
Furniture Products
Modern office space with shelves holding chairs and plants on the left, glass-walled meeting room in the center, and a lounge area with a gray couch, pillows, a small dog resting, and a round table with magazines on the right, overlaid with the text 'MCONTRAST DRIVES CREATIVITY FORWARD'.

Client Overview

MCONTRAST is a New York based furniture brand that sells exclusive and curated furniture products for the workplace. Products include furniture for Lounge, Seating, Tables, Storage, Indoor and Outdoor Accessories.

Website mockup showing modern furniture pieces including a brown sofa, gray padded chair, light gray armchair, round marble and wood coffee table, and circular metal table, alongside text describing a unique product portfolio, plus a mobile view with a grid of furniture images and a photo of a modern office interior.

Project Goal

Re-design the MCONTRAST platform to help improve the backend operations of managing the products and enhance the user experience of the front end website.

Goals for the front end user interface:
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Give the platform a contemporary look and allow the end users to access the website on both desktop and mobile.

Goals for the backend:
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Integrate all the products in an organized platform which can easily be managed by MCONTRAST Admins. Admins would like the ability to add new products and the relevant attributes to that data, modify product data and archive data on the backend system for future reference.

Services Provided

UX Logo
User Experience and Interface Design
Product logo
User Experience Audit and Research
Product Strategy and planning
Website assistance using Wordpress

Approach

We coordinated our efforts through an agile process. We also worked closely with the clients on the multiple tasks regarding the redesign of the website and implementation of new pages for this data intensive project.

We worked on solving the challenges from a user experience and engineering standpoint to be able to address them along with bridging the gap between design and development.

Tools

Figma logo
Figma
WordPress logo
Wordpress
G Sheet logo
G-Sheets

Solution

Navigation

Re-designing the navigation with existing information architecture to enhance and improve the user experience.

Modern interior with two gray lounge chairs and a small round table between them in front of wooden shelves holding potted plants, seen through a glass door on the left and near large windows on the right.

Testimonials

Homepage re-design included addition of customer testimonials to help build trust and to create a connection with the users.

Website testimonials section displaying four client reviews praising Emma and her team at MCONTRAST for their professionalism and valuable contributions in interior design, ecommerce, business development, and design consulting across companies HOK, ROKT, DAILY HARVEST, and ARTISAN.

Social Media Integration

Social media integration to help increase brand reach, encourage more user engagement and build a bigger audience on social media.

A webpage section showing social media follow options with two rows of images: the first row labeled 'Follow us on Instagram' featuring office interiors, a man and a younger man posing, modern seating, workspace, and a couch with a side table; the second row labeled 'Follow us on Pinterest' displaying stylish office spaces, a furniture ad for Curvo chairs designed by Emma Robson, and modern meeting rooms. Below is an email subscription bar with a 'Join the list' button and an input field for an email address.

Category Page

Online furniture store webpage showing a search for chairs with eight chair models displayed in a grid: blue Elora sofa, light gray Vega sofa, dark gray Luna sofa, red Solara sectional, red Flux chair with a table, teal Lumina armchair, yellow Halo wooden chair, and pink Astra sectional sofa.

Product Information Page

Re-arranging essential pieces of information that a customer might need to know into one page along with integrating PDF to simplify the process and enhance the UX dramatically.

Product page showing a light wood and metal shelving unit with an attached wood veneer table on the left, and detailed product specs, pricing, and customization options on the right.

Results

The project resulted in implementation of redesigned pages, UX audit, cross browser compatibility and responsive design for MCONTRAST. This helped improve the flexibility and customization abilities for the users through WordPress integration.