Nordstrom's beauty editorial hub, where every story is shoppable. Built to stay current without a team rebuilding the pages every week.

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Nordstrom Beauty hub homepage on laptop, three editorial story cards, stylists section
2Three Stories

"Lips That Pop," "Top 5 Serums," and "Get That Glow." Three cards gave merchandising room for the seasonal pushes and kept the page from getting crowded.

The headlines, photography, and copy were written per story. The product data came in from the catalog on its own, so swapping a SKU updated the price, description, and picture with no designer opening the page.

Nordstrom Beauty hub desktop, three editorial story cards with product imagery
Nordstrom Beauty virtual try-on tool on iPhone, color gradient selector, lipstick preview
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Virtual try-on
Color gradient selector
Lipstick preview

Scroll. It fills the mat, then travels the frame

3Try-On

Use a new photo or the one already on your Style Profile, then drag across a color gradient and watch the shade change on your face as you go. Tap the right red and the product card comes up underneath with reviews, price, and add to bag.

It shipped inside the "Lips That Pop" story, built as its own component so it could move to eye, cheek, or nail. The gradient mapped to the available SKUs, so any shade you could try was one you could buy.

Nordstrom Beauty Lips That Pop desktop experience with virtual try-on tool and product detail

The products changed every week. The pages didn't have to.

4The Drawer

Buying never interrupts the read.

Reviews, price, size options and add to bag come in from the side while the story stays on screen behind it.

It also kept the numbers in one place. Time on page, scroll depth, and conversion were all measured inside the story, so merchandising could see which angle drove the most adds to bag with no attribution guesswork.

Nordstrom Beauty Get That Glow story on iPhone, orange table lifestyle mockup
Get That Glow story mobile, editorial layout with model and copy
Get That Glow story mobile, shoppable product grid with pricing
Top 5 Serums story mobile, editorial with product details and how-to-use
Product detail drawer mobile, Bio Lifting Serum with pricing and add to bag
5Three Templates

Three templates, a try-on tool and a drawer.

The templates ran through three seasonal rotations before anyone asked for a layout change. In between, merchandising swapped products and the catalog kept everything else current.

Services
Product Design
UX Design
Visual Design
Editorial Templates
Stack
Nordstrom CMS
Custom Components
HTML/CSS/JS
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How it starts

A real conversation and a brainstorm, and a direction we both agree on. The work moves quickly from there.

What I take on

The brand, the thing people use, and the back of house that keeps it running. Not just a handoff, and not just a tool.

When it's done

A brand, a piece of software, a room. None of them are ever really done. There's a time to launch, let it sit, see how people use it, and decide what's next. You can't keep working on it in the background forever.

Services

  • Art Direction
  • Brand Systems
  • Digital Design
  • Interiors

Practice

  • Independent, Texas
  • Design and build
  • I love the work
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The setupIndependent, Texas. Design and build. I love the work.
What I doArt direction. Brand systems. Digital design. Interiors.
Aug 22

The homepage is three columns now: the wordmark left, the sentence and the question in the middle, the address right. They sit on the nav bar rather than under it, so the bar carries the page's own type instead of a strip of empty rule. Everything came down to two sizes, 32 and 12, inside a 50px frame on all four sides.

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Aug 22

Image editing takes twelve inputs instead of four.

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