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LUME — E-commerce platform

Art Direction, Brand Storytelling, Concept Development, Creative Direction, Photography, Prototype, Research, Strategy, Systems Thinking, UI, UX

Role — UX, design lead
Services — UX strategy, design systems, e-commerce, interaction design, storytelling

Made the experience clear, confident, and built to scale

Challenge

Online felt nothing like retail — no clarity, no confidence, no real connection

Opportunity

Give new customers a place to start and give loyal ones a reason to stay

Approach

Bring education, story, and compliance into one simple, unified system

 

$200M

revenue growth driven by brand clarity and product confidence

2.5x

time spent exploring products and categories

50%

faster for returning customers to reach the right products

 
I want you to look at other e-commerce experiences outside of the cannabis industry to serve as our bar
— Chief Information Officer at Lume Cannabis Co.
 

research insights

User research shaped a simpler, clearer way for people to understand products and buy with confidence

Key Insights

  • Cleared up product myths with simple, honest explanations

  • Prompts got new shoppers buying faster

  • Prototype validated the model, sped up decisions and earned buy-in

view prototype
 
 

BRAND DESIGN system

A visual language that made products easy to find and hard to forget

Bold + functional

  • Used strong product colors and oversized typography to make each product instantly recognizable

  • Built a modular system so categories stay clear and scale fast

 

UNDERSTANDING EFFECTS

UNDERSTANDING EFFECTS

Narrative cues showed how cannabis works and why each effect matters

• Made effects simple to understand — for first-time shoppers

• Made choosing easier by showing what each product actually does

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