Inspiration Hub

The Inspiration Hub helps small businesses save time and post more by providing ready-made post templates to download.

My Role

User Experience Designer

Core responsibilities

Wireframes

UI Design

Interaction design

Prototyping

Overview

Context

Small business owners have passion. They get up every day to provide opportunities for others. They create products and services that people enjoy. With the world’s changing landscape these owners now have to wear many hats. Go into areas where they have little to no experience to be able to connect with their audiences. This has been a major pain point for many of them. How might we simplify those processes so that the business can have more time to do what they love and are great at?

Overview

Who is the hub for?

Target audience

Users on Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messager) that spend less than $5000 per quarter on advertising.

Audience size

The size of the audience is a total of 10 million users across all platforms.

Audience location

The experience is designed for an international audience and is divided into four segments. Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and North America.

Overview

Why does the Inspiration Hub
need to be updated? 

More templates

When the inspiration hub launched, it had a total of 45 templates. This number has increased by 66% to 135 total templates in three separate styles.

Optimizing for mobile

Based on the page traffic mobile was the primary entry point for the users. Because of user behavior aspects of the UX needed to be tweaked to be more in line with user expectations.

More templates

Areas of the page received little engagement and drove the users away from the template downloading experience. These areas need to be rethought and reconsidered if they belonged in the current experience.

More templates

The Facebook company rebranded as Meta, which updated the design systems and the available color palette.

Competitive analysis

Examining the market

The do-it-yourself design market has grown based on the focus on social media and social media marketing. Leading the way is Canva. Canva has a 21% of do-it-yourself design market share. Adobe, which is a leader in the professional space for design, has shifted its focus to adding products that target novices. Lastly, Ripl is a subscription-based service that shares many features of the others but is a mobile-first experience.

Discovery

User journey

The user journey begins when small businesses that have posted within the last 28 days receive an ad email or in-app notification that drives them to the posting hub.

Users can also reach the page through organic search, but that is not the primary method of reaching the destination. Once on the page, the user can access the downloadable templates, which they can download directly to their device.

Process

Wireframing

I began wireframing by taking the learnings from the competitive analysis and understanding the user journey. The wireframe process concluded with five concepts presented to internal stakeholders for feedback.

Process

Example Interactions

I created a few designs as low-fidelity prototypes to help stakeholders understand the interactions.

Process

Final Design

The final design utilized two drop-downs for filtering. One for the different styles and the other for the business type, giving the user
the ability to tailor their options to their use cases.

Impact

Metrics

3.7m

Total visitors

Regional CTR

67%

Asia Pacific

1m

Total clicks

88%

Europe
Middle East Afica

470k

Total clicks

92%

 Latin America

46%

Mobile engagement increased

87%

North America

Learnings

Key Takeaways

Better
localization

Regional CTRs suggest lowest relevancy or interest in Asia Pacific.

Balancing mobile
and desktop

The mobile visitors are double the desktop visitors. However, the ratio of people clicking on desktop is higher.

Update
user journey

Emails and Ads don’t reflect the update to the landing page.