Designing Modular Frameworks

Crafting a modular responsive template library for American Eagle Outfitters.

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Challenge

Since American Eagle Outfitters launched their first website, every page had been created as a custom page. They approached the agency with an ask to create a module framework for their rapidly growing website and newly launched CMS platform.

CLIENT
American Eagle Outfitters

AGENCY
SapientNitro

ROLE
UX Lead, Creative Technologist

Process

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UX

Assess years of templates and create a module framework scaleable for all design needs.

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Development

Develop a prototype that showcases loading and micro-animations that help guide the user journey.

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Intake

Assessmed more than two years of daily custom module designs and identified design trends of CTAs, headlines, copy, typestyles, and icons.

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Responsive Module Framework

Designed a robust module framework that accommodates even the most custom designs. Developed with various desktop and mobile screen resolutions in-mind.

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Instructional Module Library

A library of over fifty modules was designed, each module had a framework with design specs, design with labeled fields corresponding to the framework, and example design module.

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Creating Animations

As part of our design exploration, developed an animation library with various micro-animations for lazy loading, hover states, and page transitions. Each animation provided with animation specs including speeds, opacity levels, and triggers.

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Module Library

As part of helping onboard American Eagle Outfitters, our team sat down with various business units to understand the hurdles around adopting this new framework. A major pain point was translating marketing needs into design comps. With such a vast library, only the designers working directly with the modules knew what was available to them.

To help translate marketing needs into designs, developed a module library search tool that quickly filtered modules based on a variety of marketing needs including content, number of call-to-actions, and dynamic functionalities.

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Deliverables

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UX
Wireframes

DESIGN
Design Comps
Design Specs

DEVELOPMENT
Animation Library
Module Library Tool

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