Challenge and Client

To broaden its ways of reaching the audience and set an effective sales channel using mobile technology, Heineken Mexico strived to launch a mobile application that would allow users to buy beer and associated stuff like snacks, cups, and the like and get the orders delivered quickly. This is how the Glup application started.

The clients approached the tubik team with a range of design tasks: we worked on logo audit and tweaks, extended brand identity development, delivery application UI/UX design from scratch, website design, and creating custom 3D icons and 3D illustrations for marketing and user experience objectives.

Process

The creative process included two major directions: developing a flexible identity and creating a consistent functional UX design for the application.

Brand Identity Design

Firstly, it was essential to work on powerful branding that would be effectively applied to both marketing goals and mobile interactions, providing the integrity of the customer experience.

The brand already had a logo, but it had to be enhanced to get a more attractive and trendy look appealing to the target audience and become more pliable for a variety of brand advertising and marketing objectives.

Original logo color variations

Glup logo redesign

Certainly, the team took advantage of color power and its remarkable ability to set the needed mood in split seconds. The primary brand colors were yellow, setting the cheerful spirit and giving instant association to the beer theme, and deep purple, setting the effective contrast and playfulness and supporting the flexibility of the palette for the defined objectives. Also, an extended palette for different ways of product presentation was developed.

Another element of visual branding was the set of abstract geometric shapes to be consistently used across various branded items, advertising materials, delivery bags, social networking, and mobile application screens. What’s more, these shapes reflected the parts of the clock face setting a solid association with the speed of delivery as one of the key features. Take a look at the variety of branded items and advertising design.

Outdoor advertising

Social network posting templates

Billboard design

Delivery backpack design

Range of variants for delivery motorbike branding

Branded T-shirts design

Branded cap design

User Experience Design

The second direction of work was to think about the flawless and intuitive user experience for the mobile application. The interaction design was thoroughly thought-out to make the sales funnel work successfully and let the users move through the whole purchase flow smoothly.

The onboarding screens and categories use trendy and balanced 3D graphics presenting the products and setting friendly communication. Having a different visual style, these original graphics don’t distract users’ attention from the offered items.

The icons working as visual, illustrative markers for the different categories of items in the application also moved through several iterations and evolved from 2D graphics consistent with the general concept of visual branding and echoing its graphic elements to the big set of 3D icons following the style of 3D illustrations used across the app and in the onboarding process. Here’s a quick glance at the stages of the process.

Airy light screens of the application effectively show the products, while branded colors, graphics, and eye-pleasing gradients help to set attractive color accents for interactive elements, making navigation clear and intuitive. Custom icons in the interface also echo the brand palette, supporting both usability and consistency of brand performance. The customers are offered several ways to surf the range of provided items, including browsing the entire catalog, using filters to customize it, or using the internal search to find the needed item quickly. Plus, the button on each card on the catalog screens sets the shortcut to add the items directly to the basket without opening a card, which saves time and effort in cases when users have some faves and order the same items multiple times.

Here’s a quick look at the category screen. All categories are illustrated with stylish theme 3D graphics that instantly set the theme but do not overload the screen with too much detailing.

The shopping cart screen is informative and functional, based on the principles of external consistency and well-recognized mental models so that users can finalize their orders easily and effortlessly. A special progress bar with a text hint is used to visualize the ability to get free shipping for the order.

The home screen and promotions screen also feature sliders with banners for special offers or hot sales to attract more attention to them immediately.

One of the essential elements of building a solid mobile app brand and enhancing its online presence is supporting it on the web with a concise and informative landing page that uncovers the benefits and engages new users to try it. The landing page for the Glup application echoes the design approach of visual identity for the brand. It’s based on a bright background in primary brand colors separating different content sections, a solid visual hierarchy of text blocks, clear and visible call-to-action elements, and prominent visuals that present the balanced mixture of app screens and thematic 3D graphics to instantly set the connection with the essence of the offered service. Smooth web animation makes the user experience even more lively and dynamic.

So, as a result of the project, the Glup brand obtained a solid and effective sales channel via the easy-to-use mobile application, consistently reflecting brand identity and making the customer experience integral, engaging, and smooth.

More Design Case Studies

Here’s a set of more case studies sharing the design solutions and approaches for some of the design projects done by the Tubik team.

HP23. Website and 3D Animation for Prostheses Producer

Nova Post. Interactive Christmas Advent Calendar UI Design

FluxWear. Web Design and Development for Health Tech Product

Magma Math. Web Design for Educational Platform

HotelCard. Brand Identity for Hotel Offers Service

Nibble Health. Identity and UX Design for Healthcare Fintech Service

Physica Magazine. Web Design and Graphics for Scientific Blog

CSConnect. Website Design for Immersive Experience Marketing Platform

ProAgenda. Identity and Website Design for Golf Management Service

Kaiten. Identity and Product Design for Food Marketplace

THT. Website Design for Electrical Engineering Service

Crezco. Brand Identity and UI/UX Design for Fintech Service

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The design process for the project included three creative tasks:

• logo design and brand color palette
• a consistent set of original brand illustrations for diverse marketing goals online and offline
• packaging design

Identity and Packaging

The logo design for the project presents the combination mark in which the symbol echoes botanical motifs elegantly organized in a square shape, and the typographic part sets a strong visual connection with it using the same leaf shape as a part of the letter. The color palette features the domination of earthy natural colors, with different shades of warm, eye-pleasing brown for backgrounds and contrastive bright blue, green, yellow, and other shades for accents and details, distinguishing different products and goods by color marking. This approach can be seen in a variety of packaging design items.

Brand Illustrations

The consistent set of illustrations developed for the project features a variety of people and characters holding different plants or dealing with gardening routines. Digital artworks of this kind add a solid human element to brand communication and make it more emotional. They can be effectively used for a variety of marketing goals, from printed branded graphics such as posters, banners, cards, and stickers to packaging design such as various branded boxes and bags, to digital communication on a website, hero images, landing pages, and social media posts. The consistency of the visual approach helps to create an integral customer experience and strengthens brand recognizability.

New design case studies are coming soon. Stay tuned!

More Design Case Studies

Here’s a set of more case studies sharing the design solutions and approaches for some of the graphic design projects done by the Tubik team.

Aqua Dudes. Cartoonish Packaging Design for Fish Food Brand

Herteas. Packaging Design for Herbal Tea Brand

Nutribite. Tasty Packaging Design for Granola Bars

Milkimu. Packaging and Marketing Design for Dairy Brand

Dance Festival. Creating a Set of Event Poster Designs

Soaplanet. Soap Brand Packaging Design with Travel Spirit

Joosi. Packaging Design and Marketing Graphics for Juice Brand

Pizzatta. Artistic Pizza Packaging Design

Page Turner. Identity and Packaging Design for Bookstore Chain

8 Bright Packaging Design Projects Employing Illustration Art

Bikker. Identity Design and Illustrations for Biking Service

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Café Com Passagem

Café com Passagem project description from designers:

Café com Passagem is a family business focused on the specialty coffee market located in Foz do Iguaçu-PR. The need for this redesign came with the aim of praising the special Brazilian coffee bean, creating a brand aligned with the quality of the product that is able to reach international territories as well as the expectations of the specialty coffee consumer, who generally seeks knowledge about the world. of coffee and appreciates the stories behind each cup.

Specialty coffee in Brazil is treated in a very meticulous way, a process that involves many people and respects nature. The visual identity was built based on these precepts, with elements that reinforce craftsmanship, manual harvesting, people, Brazilian culture, and sustainability. The symbol in the typography represents coffee and the world, the Brazilian specialty coffee that has gained a prominent position in a global context. For the supporting graphic elements, animals from the Brazilian fauna (mainly from the Paraná region), the legend of Naipi and Tarobá, and drawings that illustrate the wisdom of the past of coffee cultivation were used.

Terrano Engenharia

Terrano Engenharia project description from designers:

The brand was built by reinforcing the terrain’s work fronts (projection, work alignment, topography, and soil analysis) and also supporting the main pillars that the client expects to find in an engineering company: precision, seriousness, and safety.⠀

The colors used in the project represent a gradient of soil colors. Symbols and lines are essential elements in maps, and that is why they were added to the various geometric shapes of the visual identity – from the symbol “T” of the logo that was obtained from joining squares to complementary materials. The formats are generalist to facilitate reading and increase the level of understanding.

Puppen Kids

Puppen Kids project description from designers:

The word “Puppen” used in the logo comes from the German language, which means dolls. The dolls historically occupy a place that brings warmth and affection, in addition to the rescue of free play. They were used in the complementary material as well as in the company’s name, contextualizing the idea of how dressing can be fun, cheerful, and cool.

The purpose of this visual identity is to encourage children to create their own imaginary world, express themselves, and play with comfort and style. The three dolls were strategically designed to initially represent Hannah, João Guilherme, and Isadora, children of Puppen Kids entrepreneurs – the biggest incentive to open a store in this segment. Being a democratic color, yellow is prevalent in Puppen Kids’ visual identity – not imposing any gender barriers.

Check more projects by this team in the Black Pepper Design portfolio on Behance.

New D4U Gallery issues are coming soon; keep up with new posts.

For more inspiration, check the sets of other posts from our D4U Gallery, where we gather impressive creatives to share their art with you, for example:

• creative wine packaging design projects
• sophisticated brand identity designs
• identity and packaging design projects
• logo designs for different business goals
• people illustration gallery
• captivating 3D animation concepts
• impressive packaging designs 
• artistic portrait collages
• childhood illustrations
• 3D illustrations
• book cover designs

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Cuca Green Fonda

Corporate identity design project for an inn-type restaurant with organic and natural products.

Daniel Barreto Visual Identity

Identity design project for the talented audiovisual and graphic artist Daniel Barreto. The main design objective was to create a corporate identity project that visually reflected Daniel’s audiovisual work, with the creation of a monogram as a Japanese stamp, as Japanese graphic artists used to stamp their work, and a logo that reflects strength, distinction, and dynamism, and integrate the graphic work and the elements of the stationery consistently.

MIES Identity Design

Corporate identity design project for high-line quality gourmet products next to be commercialized in México.

Kiyoshi Sushi & Sake Bar

Kiyoshi is a corporate identity project for a luxury restaurant with a sake and sushi bar, a project carried out for a Domestika course, with the purpose of teaching the basic principles of modifying typography to create unique logos. The concept was inspired by Japanese gastronomy, which sees food as a ritual; the typographic inspiration and the illustration were made taking as inspiration the woodcut Ukiyo E engravings from the Edo period.

Check more projects by this team in Monotypo Studio Behance portfolio.

New D4U Gallery issues are coming soon; keep up with new posts.

For more inspiration, check the sets of other posts from our D4U Gallery, where we gather impressive creatives to share their art with you, for example:

• creative wine packaging design projects
• identity and packaging design projects
• logo designs for different business goals
• people illustration gallery
• captivating 3D animation concepts
• realistic 3D portraits
• impressive packaging designs 
• artistic portrait collages
• childhood illustrations
• 3D illustrations
• book cover designs

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Product

Uplyfe is an AI-powered health app that reacts to your behavior in nutrition and exercise and provides personalized recommendations. The app is designed to help users improve their health, as well as prevent or manage non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Founded by specialists with medical and healthcare backgrounds, the product shares the philosophy that a healthy lifestyle is the best medicine. The product team is based in Switzerland.

Research and Design Approach

Creating a brand image, the design team has to consider all the major ways the brand employs to communicate with its users and customers. Even an excellent logo design may not work effectively if it’s designed in a creative vacuum without a clear understanding of where and how the brand will use it, what environment it will be integrated into, and how it will be distributed. That’s why the first stage of design is all about deep research, asking tons of questions, and building up a great deal of communication between the brand team and the design team. This process is vital as not only do designers get a more comprehensive view, but also, brand holders start looking at their product from different perspectives and asking themselves new questions. You can read more about the design process for branding in one of the earlier articles:  together with the client, we discuss and define ‘the soul’ of a client’s brand. That helps us to create strong branding and identity, ‘the face,’ for products and companies. From the brand model to the design system, we build the identity that translates the product values.

The essential point to take into account about Uplyfe’s brand image was that, in a nutshell, it is not a product solving a narrow circle of specific health problems but a comprehensive eco-system of building a healthy life, adapting its recommendations to users’ goals and performance. What’s more, it’s based on a scientific approach but simple and accessible for the broad target audiences of different ages, from youngsters to the elderly. The app aims at being used by both people with NCDs and healthy people who want to improve their lives. As the team is based in Switzerland and that’s its core market at the moment, the research phase included the analysis of what kind of health services and apps are demanded and popular in this area.

To define the design approach, user personas were developed and analyzed as well as mood boards were created and discussed to determine the compelling visual design perspectives.

Based on that, our team created a complex brand design for Uplyfe.

Brand Graphics

Logo

The final logo design is a combination mark made up of a symbol and a typographic part presenting a brand name. The elegant and curvy symbol is balanced by the simple, solid, and highly readable font chosen for the text part. The color palette is based on a combination of pure colors that provide good contrast and work well both in digital and analog spaces.

As for the symbol, it employs a triangular shape. According to the psychology of shapes, a triangle is an energetic and dynamic shape always associated with motion and direction. The lines are placed so that human eyes automatically move to the triangle’s top or in the direction it is placed. An upright triangle brings feelings of stability and balance.

Also, the symbol intentionally doesn’t feature any visual triggers or prompts that are typical for the medical theme. The major goal in identity design for Uplyfe was to step aside direct associations with medical treatment, hospitals, and the like, as the application goes beyond that and is positioned as a helper in supporting a healthy lifestyle in general. What’s more, for many people with NCDs, their states of health are a matter of everyday life, like, for example, those who have diabetes, so the app would rather avoid day-by-day connection to that from the medical perspective and focus on helping users make their life better in those conditions. As well, a part of the target audience consists of people who have no specific health issues but would like to enhance their general physical conditions, so the logo directly connected to the medical theme could create confusion about the nature of the Uplyfe service and lead to losing a part of the audience. Instead of associations with medical treatment, the logo had to transfer the strong message of a bright, healthy, and well-balanced life.

To increase the logo’s flexibility for different visual design goals, the designer developed a set of variations, including a black-and-white version, monochrome variants on light and dark backgrounds, and options with a gradient background based on the corporate palette.

Digital touchpoints: app graphics, favicon, logo animation

But brand design goes much further than well-crafted and tested logo design. Together with the client, we defined the touchpoints and channels via which the brand communicates with its customers to create an appealing and balanced visual style covering them all. This way, the brand image looks and feels consistent, and brand recognizability increases.

First, let’s take a look at how branding was integrated into the digital product. Here’s the logo animation for the splash screen: it gives a clear visual connection with the brand from the first seconds and, at the same time, makes waiting bright and dynamic while the app is loading. Also, below, you can see how the branded app icon looks for the Uplyfe application.

And here’s a glance at the favicon for the app landing page. Favicon, also known as a URL icon or bookmark icon, is a particular type of symbol representing the product or brand in the URL line of the browser and in the bookmark tab. It allows users to get a quick visual connection with it while they are browsing. Although small and not prominent, this interface element is essential for effective web promotion; it contributes much to web usability and good recognizability of the brand’s visual identity.

The concept of the custom branded illustration was also developed to experiment with the general style of brand graphics that could be used for social networks, banners, and other marketing goals.

Going further, the extensive set of neat icons, both in corporate colors and in monochrome versions, was designed to support visual consistency for diverse branding and user experience goals behind the application and its pages in social networks.

Landing page design

One more important channel of app promotion is a landing page. For mobile applications, it is a web page created to set another touchpoint that informs users about the nature and benefits of the app, engages them to try it, and provides shortcuts to downloading it. Moreover, sticking to the brand style and color palette, the landing page strengthens the brand image’s web presence and recognizability.

Here are different design concepts for the landing page of the Uplyfe application.

Landing page employing dark background, prominent app demonstration screens, and bright color accents

Landing page design based on light, airy background and big custom illustration in brand style

Landing page design concepts with atmospheric background photo content setting the visual connection with the theme of healthy life. The photo also works as a gaze-directing directional cue: on the slide with yoga, the woman’s fingers direct users’ eyes to the CTA element in the header.

Social networks

Naturally, digital products are mainly promoted via digital channels of communication, so the next step of brand design for Uplyfe was considering its consistent identity in social networks.

Here’s how the Facebook page for the app looked. The concept features custom header images based on graphics combining abstract shapes and recognizable objects like a microscope, providing a quick visual connection with the brand style, the theme, and the goals of the service. Also, another illustration is shown as an example of theme graphics for posts.

Here’s how the same approach is adjusted for the Twitter page.

And here’s a look at the brand image concept on Instagram and Facebook for mobile. The system of icons works effectively as the covers for Instagram highlights. Also, the general style of brand graphics for Instagram posts is offered to make them consistent, attractive, and recognizable, sharing the brand mission and valuable information for the followers.

Printed stuff: business cards, posters, lightboxes, billboards

Talking about the more tangible side of branding, here’s how the business card design looked.

What’s more, the style, curvature, and shapes used in the process of design exploration for icons let the designer develop the design system for brand posters and other stuff or merch that could be involved in marketing.

Another direction to take into account was the design of outdoor advertising to spread the word about the application in various urban spaces, such as billboards with motivational taglines or lightbox ads informing about the app’s benefits.

This project demonstrates how the comprehensive design approach covers different aspects of the ways the brand uses to connect with its customers and how much more should be done to develop an attractive and informative brand identity than just logo design.

New design case studies are coming soon; keep up with the updates.

More Design Case Studies

Here’s a set of more case studies sharing the design solutions and approaches for some of the design projects done by the tubik team.

FarmSense. Brand Identity and Website Design for Agricultural Technology

Synthesized. Website Design for DataOps Platform

ProAgenda. Identity and Website Design for Golf Management Service

BlockStock. Brand Identity and Website for Minecraft Models Resource

Carricare. Identity and UX Design for Safe Delivery Service

ShipDaddy. Identity and Web Design for Shipping Service

Illuminating Radioactivity. Interactive Web Design for Education

Lumen. Website for Museum of Mountain Photography

GNO Blankets. Branding and Web Design for Ecommerce

Designer AI. Dashboard and Graphics for Fashion Service

Shpin’s Wine. Identity Design for Family-Run Winery

Originally written for Tubik Blog, graphic and video content by tubik

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Client and Project

FarmSense is a USA-based innovative tech product that helps growers reduce losses from insect pests and lower dependence on pesticides to take the uncertainty out of pest management for better farming and a brighter future.

Why is it important, and how does it help? The agricultural industry loses more than $220 billion in crop damage each year because of insects. For decades, farmers have been stuck with few options for pest management. Most use sticky traps – a time-consuming and inaccurate method, followed by a broadcast spray of selected pesticides and insecticides. Still, sadly, these traps can also affect beneficial bugs that pollinate more than 70% of the global crop supply.

So, the FarmSense team formed by scientists and innovators developed a better way. Using computational entomological models, they created a real-time sensor that can help farmers make better decisions for pest management, saving time and potentially boosting crop yield. The team believes that leveraging the power of machine learning and computational modeling can help save lives, reduce hunger, and help developing countries achieve food independence.

The target audience they aim at is diverse, from big agricultural corporations to small family farms, from innovators and advisors with high tech-literacy levels to farmers that spend most time right in the fields and have no broad experience or tight connections to different software and applications. So, the team worked on the affordability and accessibility of the technology and strived to reflect that in the branding approach and website, helping them communicate with their clients and uncover the product’s benefits. Let’s check how the designers from tubik achieved that goal.

Identity Design

The branding design process started with extensive research covering the agriculture and ag-tech current state in the USA, the existing presence of the sector on the web, the pain points of the target audience, and the touchpoints of the brand communication.

Based on everything mentioned above, the key advantages of the product that branding had to transfer were defined as:

• sustainability
• affordability
• accuracy of real-time data
• rich information

As well, the team aimed at making a visual branding design system that would have a range from more strict and business-like to more illustrative and emotional.

One of the core tools supporting both emotionality and usability in brand design for FarmSense is color. The palette features bright contrast shades of natural colors employing the psychology of color and giving instant visual connection to the topic of agriculture, summer, soil, fields, insects, and plants: green, orange, yellow, and blue. The latter is also traditionally associated with tech-related and digital products.

Having agreed upon colors, the team started working on the logo. The initial logo design approach was based on data as a core of the problem-solving power of the product. The creative search based on that resulted in a set of brand sign options reflecting that idea via lines and dots forming abstract shapes and building association with digital data processing and statistics visualization as well as fields seen from the bird-watch perspective. The basic shape chosen for the brand symbol was a circle.

Here’s a glance at the logo design process, from sketches through variations to the polished sign. The first version of the symbol developed in this direction was an abstract round sign consisting of vertical lines.

First sketches to think over the idea and find the composition

Digital symbol development

Testing the symbol with the brand name typographic part

Monochrome version of the combination mark

The version of the symbol with soft edges

Icons designed to test how the symbol can be further developed into other types of graphics

Another idea for the symbol at this stage of the creative search was to transfer the visual metaphor of the insect or the sun rising above the field, shaped by the lines. The latter was taken into deeper consideration.

Logo symbol sketching stage

Digital logo symbol development

Combination mark for the brand identity

Monochromatic version of the combination mark

The set of branded items was also presented to show how this version of the logo and color palette could work for various marketing goals: banners, printed advertisements, social media posting, business cards, etc.

Although the general idea looked effective, after discussions with clients and deeper testing, we together made the decision to move to another iteration, as this version of the symbol, even looking different, could bring up associations with some political campaigns that took place earlier in the USA. So, the second approach was also based on aerial views on the fields of crops, but this time irregular and asymmetric, cut by roads in various directions.

For this version, the color palette excluded blue, and the basic shape was square. The creative search was done on the sign composition and detailing.

The idea development resulted in the bright three-color symbol with a moderate level of detail and a bold, readable typographic part.

And here’s how it could be developed into the design system for branded items.

Posters design

Truck livery design

However, the deeper the team dived into the visual concept for the FarmSense brand, the more the client’s team got certain that they would like to combine the discussed approach and palette to their existing logo and reconsider it to make its design bright, up-to-date, and recognizable as well as flexible for various communication objectives.

The previous FarmSense logo

So, the final iteration started at the intersection of the existing logo and the ideas considered in the previous versions. The logo had to become simpler and less detailed to stay clear and informative in various sizes and get packed into a new color palette giving a quick connection to both agriculture and digital technology. Again, it started from basic sketching to think over the idea and moved to the polished logo.

Finally, the option with strict thin lines and a thin, elegant sans-serif typographic part was chosen as an approved brand sign.

So, based on that solution, the consistent set of branded items was designed for indoor and outdoor advertising and brand communication.

Billboards and banners designed for outdoor advertising

Business card design

Rollup design

Exhibition stand design

Truck livery design

With the brand graphics above, it’s also easy to see that another important aspect of identity design for FarmSense was creating custom illustrations. They covered four major goals:

• pictures set the atmosphere and apparent association with the agricultural theme
• specially created graphics helped to visualize the flow and benefits of highly-technological processes which are hard or even impossible to show via photos or videos
• custom graphics helped the brand to stand out of the crowd among the players in the agricultural sector, mostly using photo content which is often quite generic and just setting the theme
• the hero illustrations featuring people added a powerful human element and made brand communication more friendly and emotional

The creative process for the illustration also moved from rough sketches to present the idea and discuss it with the clients to the transformation of the approved ideas into bright digital artworks. Here’s a glance at the process for hero illustrations which had to become one of the first visual touchpoints of the product introduction on the website as a channel of communication.

And here’s the process for creating custom graphics reflecting the main benefits of the FarmSense technology.

Web Design

The next stage of customer experience design, extending the efficiency of the product presentation and amplifying brand communication online, was redesigning a website. At the initial stage, the team worked on developing a structure that would be effective and straightforward for the diverse target audience of the product.

Overview of the UX wireframing stage to consider the solid and straightforward website structure and navigation

At the UI design stage, the bright branded colors were used not only for illustrations and other graphics but also as background colors for different website sections, supporting usability, scannability, and readability of web pages.

Here’s a glance at the home page of the website, catchy, friendly, and informative, amplifying the message with a hero illustration sharing the peaceful, sunny, and positive atmosphere and giving instant connection to the topic of farming that employs modern technology.

The set of original illustrations used across the website pages proves itself as a powerful tool for visual communication and storytelling. It supports the text content, sets the mood, and helps establish consistency and integrity in the website’s performance.

Also, an infographic with custom illustrations was created to visualize how the technology works and make its benefits more accessible.

Here’s a closer glance at the set of artistic color icons supporting different text messages and creating visual triggers for essential functions or benefits to make them more noticeable and well-organized for website visitors.

To make the website work effectively and look attractive on any device, the tablet and mobile versions were also well-thought-out. They were arranged to provide a smooth and integral user experience at any stage of interaction.

For our team, the FarmSense project was a great chance to collaborate with the representatives of the modern ag-tech industry developing with a rocketing speed now and utilizing innovations to improve farming experience and outcome, which is crucial for the whole world.

New design case studies from our team are coming soon. Stay tuned!

More Design Case Studies

Here’s a set of more case studies sharing the design solutions and approaches for some of the design projects done by the Tubik team.

Nibble Health. Identity and UX Design for Healthcare Fintech Service

ProAgenda. Identity and Website Design for Golf Management Service

BlockStock. Brand Identity and Website for Minecraft Models Resource

Kaiten. Identity and Product Design for Food Marketplace

THT. Website Design for Electrical Engineering Service

Komuso. Website Design for Wellness Tool

Nonconventional Show. Website Design for Podcast

Fulfill. Illustrations and Web Design for 3PLs Marketplace

Glup. Delivery App Branding and UX Design

BEGG. Brand Packaging and Web Design for Food Product Ecommerce

Crezco. Brand Identity and UI/UX Design for Fintech Service

Carricare. Identity and UX Design for Safe Delivery Service

Originally written for Tubik Blog, graphic and video content by tubik

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Project

Brand identity and website design for a new-age shipping and fulfillment service.

Client

ShipDaddy is a modern company that covers shipping and fulfillment services to other smaller but growing ecommerce companies and brands that have a product sold online but cannot fulfill by themselves for any reason. ShipDaddy solves this problem by warehousing their pallets, shipping products directly to customers, and repalletizing their inventory if it needs to be shipped to other places in bulk. Put shortly, the service takes over all the needed effort on shipping so that their clients could focus on other aspects of their business growth.

The ShipDaddy team came to us with two aspects to cover from the design perspective:

• logo and identity design for a company brand and diverse marketing goals
• website based on a consistent approach with visual branding and a super high level of usability for any category of the service clients

Tubik agency team created a brand identity and a website that would help redefine a third-party logistics company and let the world know that ShipDaddy people genially care about the success of their clients.

Process

One general direction to take into account for the entire design process was the harmonic combination of friendliness and seriousness: ShipDaddy is a super friendly and open company that deals with serious challenges. The ability to work on both branding and user experience on the web allowed for a comprehensive and consistent design approach for all the channels of company communication with the target audience.

Logo Design

The clients wanted the logo to be friendly, approachable, and cool. It had to give ShipDaddy customers the feeling of working with a partner in helping to build their business, not just a boring and impersonal shipping firm. What’s more, the service goes above and beyond shipping: it acts as a full-on consulting company that helps businesses optimize their entire ecommerce strategy, including shipping and logistics. The best solution to reflect the message was found in creating a mascot that would make communication of the brand with the client emotional and humanized as well as could cover a diversity of marketing goals and campaigns.

The creative process moved through the traditional stages from discussion and research to sketches and then a polished digital version. Focusing on people, Tubik created a cute and friendly brand identity based on the image of the company’s COO. The mascot was a human character that was friendly and funny but also quite adult and serious enough.

The final logo presented a combination mark made up of a mascot and a typographic part with a company name in a bold and highly readable font. The color palette included the primary colors (blue, yellow, red) as they look good in both print and digital presentations.

What’s more, the mascot was developed further in a variety of states and plots to get integrated into the website, social media, branded items, and marketing campaigns.

Packaging design

Stickers design

Favicon for the website and welcome screen for the mobile version of the website

Social media posting

Web Design

The website was designed following the branding guidelines and the chosen palette of corporate colors. As the mascot was chosen as the main tool of communication, it was decided to integrate it broadly into the website and illustrate most of the functions and content with it. To cover that goal, 20+ variations of ShipDaddy were drawn, depending on the context of the website sections and blocks. Also, they were used for branded stickers.

At the stage of the website UI, the creative team came up with an idea to connect the drawn character with the real-world environment. In the design process, it got clear that such an approach draws too much attention and may distract visitors from the content. Therefore, that idea was implemented only on 2 pages, the first screens of the home page and the Company page.

Let’s take a look at the website pages. All the website was made on Webflow – in our previous web design case study we told about the benefits and functions of this tool in detail.

The home page applies the split screen based on color contrast to make the text content readable and the CTA button instantly noticeable. The motion of a mascot cheerfully walking through the photographed warehouse adds fun, atmosphere, and emotion from the first seconds.

Another page combining illustration and photography into one visual effect was a Company page.

Mascot Motion: APNG for Webflow

To make the user experience dynamic, engaging, and memorable, as well as activate the maximum potential of a mascot, we decided to make the character live with animation on all website pages.

All animations were made in APNG format instead of the usual GIF for the following reasons:

• much better image quality with equal size (compare the samples here)
• APNG works efficiently with Webflow
• mobile devices support APNG as well as desktop, which makes the user experience the same across all platforms.

Breakpoints

Recently, 3 new breakpoints for large monitors have been added to Webflow. In addition to adapting to tablet and mobile, you can now modify the website design at 1280px, 1440px and 1920px width. That helped us to be even more flexible in adjusting the first screens of all pages so that they would look more consistent and proportional even on the largest monitors.

404 Page

If, for some reason, visitors click on an outdated or broken link and get to the 404 error page, they get the experience spiced with a bit of fun with a nice animation. That helps to smoothen the negative effect of dealing with an error and supports a friendly atmosphere of communication. A solid visual hierarchy of the page and an instantly noticeable CTA button help a visitor quickly understand what to do next.

Blog

In Webflow, you can create full-fledged blogs with any design, functionality, and navigation, including categories, author pages, search, subscription, and so on. The client gets access to the admin dashboard, where he adds articles in a simple and intuitive editor, and in a few seconds, they appear on the website. The best benefit of a blog for a company website is that you can greatly increase the organic traffic through regular posts and cross-links in the articles.

The main page of ShipDaddy Blog

Author’s page on ShipDaddy Blog

Blog article page

Page Transitions

Since quite a lot of character animations are integrated into the website, and individual blocks of text are animated as well, they don’t overload the transition process. The motion graphics are light-weighted, so the user experience is not affected badly. And so that the visitor could see all the content at once and avoid the situations when something is loaded faster while something longer, we made the transitions between the pages through the curtain, which disappears only when all the content is fully loaded.

ShipDaddy project is a bright example of a tight and friendly collaboration of the creative team and the stakeholders in the desire to reach the most customer-centric solutions possible.

New design case studies are coming soon. Stay tuned!

Design Case Studies

Here’s a set of case studies sharing the design solutions and approaches for some other design projects by tubik team.

CSConnect. Website Design for Immersive Experience Marketing Platform

Fulfill. Illustrations and Web Design for 3PLs Marketplace

Roebuck. Mobile Design and Illustrations for Educational App

Kaiten. Identity and Product Design for Food Marketplace

Glup. Delivery App Branding and UX Design

THT. Website Design for Electrical Engineering Service

Komuso. Website Design for Wellness Tool

PointZero25. Identity and Website Design for Event Agency

Nonconventional Show. Website Design for Podcast

Crezco. Brand Identity and UI/UX Design for Fintech Service

FarmSense. Identity and Web Design for Agricultural Technology

Carricare. Identity and UX Design for Safe Delivery Service

Originally written for Tubik Blog, graphic and video content by tubik

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Logo for Dry Cleaning and Laundry Service

This logo is designed for Levapp, the company providing on-demand dry cleaning and laundry services. The identity design is based on simple shapes that, if you look closer, form a combination of L and A in a symbol, presented in a lovely and catchy color combination.

The branding sign is amplified by a smooth and dynamic motion for the options of use in digital products.

Logo and Identity for Traveling Service

Here’s a glance at the logo and identity design for gotikket, the company that offers an easy-to-use service helping travelers to cover their needs. The wordmark shares a positive mood and is balanced with a contrasting bold color palette.

To add even more fun and make the logo lively, here’s an animated version.

Logo for Bakery

This is a logo design and branded packaging concept for a small bakery, Gustavo, named after its founder. Custom illustration featuring the baker’s silhouette is combined with a sophisticated typography part for the brand name and contrasting sans-serif font for the explanatory part.

Logo animation to be used for the goals of web marketing adds even more elegance and smoothness to the idea.

Logo for AI-Based Chatbot Service

This symbol has been designed for Ortico, the platform producing and supporting AI-based conversational user interfaces and bots. Logo animation allows for making the smooth curves of the brand sign even more expressive for digital interactions.

Logo for Flight Rights Protection Company

This symbol has been designed for Aviar, the company that deals with flight rights protection. The designer created an elegant and bold symbol playing with visual metaphors of a plane and shield combined with the power of negative space.

Logo for Wine Brand

Shpin’s wine is a brand that originates in a small winery, where the love of wine has grown into a family business. It involves the whole family in the process of creating a unique and exclusive wine based on the tradition of classic winemaking. We’ve shared the creative process for the brand identity earlier in the case study: idea search, logo design, original illustrations inspired by art, and integration of all that stuff into the web interface. Take a look at the final logo variant.

Logo for Heavy Blankets Brand

Here’s the logo designed for GNO Wellbeing, the brand that produces and sells heavy blankets that let people get a good sleep that helps them to achieve their goals.  Through creative search and iterations, the team came up with a final logo: a beige outline logo symbol of a sleeping moon accompanied by a solid and simple typography part.

Logo and Brand Mascot for Party Game

Here’s a glance at the branding design for a fun party game called Dicey. The creative process for this project didn’t get separate parts for the logo and mascot character. The wordmark uses smooth lines; it’s elegant and stylish but also playful and friendly.

Logo for Photo Sharing Service

This is a brand sign for Eyepic, the new-age photo-sharing service. The concept features color variations for the dark and light backgrounds as well as options for the vertical and horizontal composition of the elements in the combination mark. Also, you can see the design solution for the app icon.

Logo for Food Delivery Service

Quisine is an innovative service that delivers food of different national cuisines. It’s easy to use; it offers a big diversity of meals typical for different countries; it provides quick delivery and adds innovations to the entire customer journey, from making an order to receiving a meal. That’s what the brand image was based on. The company name presents a compilation of two aspects: quick cuisine. two contrast colors were chosen for the brand presentation, yellow and black.

The choice of the font for the final logo was made in favor of serif to share the vibes of high-quality meals and fine dining.

Logo for CRM Service

This sign has been designed for the digital product, a CRM system that helps to manage clients, segment audiences, and make communication more productive and focused. The logo presents a combination mark, including a symbol and a typographic part for the brand name. The elements of the logo work well both together and separately, depending on the branding and marketing goals. The color palette combines the feelings of energy and stability that lie at the core of such a service.

Logo for Crypto Startup

This logo has been created for the cryptocurrency startup called Enigma. The combination mark includes a symbol and a typographic part for the brand name. The elements of the logo work well both together and separately, depending on the branding and marketing goals.

Logo for Healthcare Service

Not only purely commercial and business projects need a solid brand strategy and identity design. Charities, healthcare, education, and the like also have to care about their branding to get a chance to connect to their target audience. Here’s a symbol created for a health service focused on cardio problems and helping people to keep their hearts healthy. The logo is aimed at being used on a wide variety of carriers and media, both offline and online.

Logo for Car Cleaning Service

This one has been designed for the mobile app of Cleanerz, a service that provides innovative car cleaning on the spot with the use of eco-friendly technologies. For the brand logo and an app icon, the lettermark was chosen and transformed into a dynamic sign combining the energy of water and the power of fast movement.

Today’s list is over, but studio practice is full of many other interesting examples of design concepts for different purposes and needs. Don’t miss new presentations and case studies in our future posts.

Useful Articles

Here’s a set of articles for those who search for insights into logo design and brand identity creation.

Branding Design Process in Tubik: FAQ from Clients

Collection of Creative Logos for a Variety of Brands

Logo Design: Creative Stages

Basic Types of Efficient Logo Design

Shape and Color in Logo Design. Practical Cases

How to Use Mascots in UI and Branding

Why and When Brand Needs an Animated Logo

6 Creative Stages of Branding Design

Originally written for Tubik Blog, graphic and video content by tubik

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For the last decade or so, we’ve witnessed the rocketing rise of demand for diverse delivery services, getting even more popular in the world of online shopping. In this case study from the tubik agency design team, we will unveil the story of our collaboration with one of them: welcome to check the creative process of identity design and mobile application for Carricare, the service that helps customers get their parcels delivered safely and in perfect time.

Client and Project

Carricare is a service based in the UK; its objective is to effectively connect couriers and customers expecting the order to set perfect conditions and timing for delivery. It is an instant and real-time notification platform for delivery couriers that helps clients with last-minute delivery notifications, allowing them to manage their time better. Therefore, it aims at solving a fundamental problem of courier delivery, when the parcels aren’t safe if brought at the wrong time and left just at the door – or leading the courier’s coming up with the idea of what to do. Automating different user scenarios, the service makes the delivery process smooth and effective for both the courier and the addressee.

The first stage of brand design was all about absorbing, sharing, and analyzing various information. We dived into discussions about the client’s goals, visions, and brand value, as well as researched the market segment to develop a solid brand approach before the actual design of its identity started.

The service mainly focused on two critical aspects appreciated by target users: the safety of all sides of a delivery case – couriers, clients, and the delivered parcels – and the high convenience of taking them for the addressees. That’s how the brand name, Carricare, was up, combining two major concepts – carry and care – and echoing the idea out into the tagline: we carry and we care about your parcel, your time, and your convenience.

In the research process, the graphic designer emerged into the topic of visual elements that support the delivery process in the United Kingdom, from history to the modern state. The mood board of diverse stamps and icons transferring important messages, like the parcel’s fragility or the need to protect it from wet conditions, inspired the general approach to branding, echoing these well-recognized meanings and adding new ones to the set.

Another key aspect to consider was brand colors choice. In this case, the brand uses a bold and contrasting combination of colors, all well-grounded by the service essence: primary colors are blue and red that echo the UK flag colors, while the additional color is cardboard color setting the apparent association with packaging and boxes used for parcels.

So, logo design presents a combination mark flexible for plenty of practical goals. The bold typographic part is supported with a set of informational graphics reflecting the parcel delivery theme:

• parcel symbol
• fragility symbol
• water protection symbol
• parcel in hands symbol, transferring the ideas of courier delivery and care for the parcel
• line waves adding association to the typical postal stamps
• the heart symbolizing care and using the color contrasting to the rest of the graphic elements.

Here you can take a look at the ideas of different logo options and elements’ placement to cover various brand identity goals.

To make the logo work in an even more dynamic way in the digital environment, we’ve also made the animated logo version.

Here’s how the logo works on the branded boxes. Take a look at how QR code presenting the primary interactive element is integrated into the wavy pattern.

And these are the stickers, another key element developed for the courier and addressee interaction.

In addition, to satisfy the need for custom graphics, a special consistent system of icons was developed to link together branding and app design, also echoing the branded color palette and reflecting a variety of user scenarios that may arise.

Another task for the creative team was to think over a variety of graphic assets for marketing goals and outdoor advertising, such as posters, billboards, city lightboxes, etc.

Posters design

Billboard design

City light box design

Intending to strengthen online marketing and amplify brand recognizability, we’ve also worked on the general stylistic concept as well as the set of design templates and ideas for social media posting and advertising that would consistently reflect the identity.

So, this stage of the design process resulted in an eye-pleasing system of identity elements combining aesthetics and practicality, both essential for the service brand image.

UX Design

The mobile application was designed to meet the needs of two different categories of users: the courier and the recipient. The app offered several scenarios of delivery flow and was based on the delivery process improvement as a core feature: it aimed at providing successful parcel deliveries even when the recipient is away. Approved couriers scan the QR code, and the recipients get a notification and choose if they just open the door and get it when they are home, get the parcel back to the depot, leave it with a neighbor, or ask the courier to leave it in a safe place.

The user interface of the mobile application is nice and clean in the best traditions: minimalist and highly functional layout, readable typography, light airy background, and bright color accents make the app intuitive and easy to use on the go and for users of different ages. Custom illustrations help to not only enhance the messages but also add aesthetic and emotional appeal to the interface as well as keep close bonds with the rest of the branded items.

One more significant detail to consider was the app icon design that would be noticeable and digitally friendly, contributing its two cents to the general brand style of the service.

Working on the Carricare project, our team has got another great experience of connecting the physical and digital worlds employing beautiful and functional design.

New design case studies from our team are coming soon. Stay tuned!

More Design Case Studies

Here’s a set of more case studies sharing the design solutions and approaches for some of the design projects done by the tubik team.

Kaiten. Identity and Product Design for Food Marketplace

Glup. Delivery App Branding and UX Design

THT. Website Design for Electrical Engineering Service

Komuso. Website Design for Wellness Tool

PointZero25. Identity and Website Design for Event Agency

Roebuck. Mobile Design and Illustrations for Educational App

Nonconventional Show. Website Design for Podcast

uMake. Branding and Website for 3D Design Tool

BEGG. Brand Packaging and Web Design for Food Product Ecommerce

Crezco. Brand Identity and UI/UX Design for Fintech Service

FarmSense. Identity and Web Design for Agricultural Technology

OOP. Brand Identity Design for Online Flea Market

Originally written for Tubik Blog, graphic and video content by tubik

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Project

Bennett is a modern brand offering users high-quality tea for different tastes. It produces various worldwide popular beverages, such as black tea, herbal tea, green tea, decaffeinated tea, iced tea, and seasonal tea. The brand is positioned at the crossroads of hot trends and classic traditions and transfers the idea of elite, exclusive products which are about lifestyle and mood rather than just a drink.

Identity Design

The logo design for Bennett is based on the symbol, which presents a combination of shapes sharing the visual metaphors of a teal leaf, an eye, and a teacup seen from above. The sign is harmonically combined with a typographic part that features the brand name presented in an elegant and minimalist manner.

The brand identity that had to stretch to the e-commerce website design is rooted in the creative spark that is sometimes hidden in the simplest things. It started when our designer and art director, Ernest Asanov, got inspired by a photo of neatly collected tea leaves and started developing the idea. In identity design, it got transformed into a graphic pattern, and later the set of patterns applied to packaging and branded items. In the website design, the idea to feature realistic images of tea leaves turned into a video used on the product page.

Here’s how the graphic patterns became the basis for packaging design and stylish paper cups.

From the packaging perspective, one more important design task was creating an informative label that corresponds with the general stylistic concept and keeps consistency across a variety of packaging options. The label design carefully arranges a lot of text content about the particular tea blend to make it readable and straightforward; it looks original and trendy due to typeface choice and enhances perception with neat and clear line icons. The front label contains only key information and focuses buyers’ attention on it without distracting or overloading them with too many details, while the back label presents much more detail.

As a part of identity design and brand communication, special branded envelopes and business cards were also developed to echo the style.

Web Design

The website design approach starts from the home page, which uses typography as its primary and only tool for informing and impressing visitors. No photos, no illustrations, only the elegantly wrapped text content setting the mood and call-to-action button seen at once and inviting the visitor to check the range of the offered products. Product pages instantly connect to the tea theme and set the emotional and aesthetic appeal due to the video of tea leaves scattered from the top of the screen.

Here’s a closer look at the interaction with product pages in the tea store. The layout is built on bright and bold color combinations for the backgrounds, effectively highlighting various products in different packaging colors. Split screen, sophisticated geometry, smooth animation, and original typography – that’s what the designer chose for this case of web layout. The text information is organized in boxes, forming a sort of asymmetric grid.

To keep up with the external consistency and recognizable mental patterns of commerce website users, the website uses a stylish and minimalist sticky header, with the brand element in the center, links to core navigation in the left part, and a shopping bag button in the right corner. The latter uses the visual marker accented by color to let visitors quickly see if they already have something in their shopping bag.

The live Bennett Tea website was fully implemented on Webflow: for our team, it was a great chance to try how it works for non-standard design aimed at e-commerce objectives.

To make the website look good and work effectively on various devices, the designers worked out the mobile version of the website.

The website got positive feedback from the global design community, having received three awards on Awwwards: Site of the Day, Mobile Excellence, and Developer Award, proving once again that Webflow allows for the effective implementation of projects of different complexity and non-standard design solutions.

Stay tuned; new case studies are coming soon!

More Design Case Studies

Here’s a set of more case studies sharing the design solutions and approaches for some of the design projects done by the Tubik team.

Glup. Delivery App Branding and UX Design

THT. Website Design for Electrical Engineering Service

Komuso. Website Design for Wellness Tool

PointZero25. Identity and Website Design for Event Agency

Nonconventional Show. Website Design for Podcast

uMake. Branding and Website for 3D Design Tool

BEGG. Brand Packaging and Web Design for Food Product Ecommerce

Crezco. Brand Identity and UI/UX Design for Fintech Service

FarmSense. Identity and Web Design for Agricultural Technology

Carricare. Identity and UX Design for Safe Delivery Service

OOP. Brand Identity Design for Online Flea Market

Otozen. Mobile App Design for Safe Driving

Originally written for Tubik Blog, graphic and video content by tubik

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