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2ND ADDRESS: REBRANDED 

Transforming Homesuite into a Premium Brand

Project Overview 

2ND ADDRESS was founded in 2014 as Homesuite to modernize finding & booking furnished homes for longer extended stays. Renting a furnished home for week or months required hunting on craigslist and tedious leasing process. The alternatives were hotels or traditional corporate housing.
 
PROBLEM// The business had acquired good traction since then but it wanted to grow and stand out in market becoming more niche for business travelers giving them greater hospitality and best experience when they travel to different cities for work. With that mission, our overall vision and strategy had pivoted. The company decided to put efforts into creating a fresh brand and market identity for itself.
 
SOLUTION // Rebranding Homesuite, transforming it into a premium brand and create right marketing and product experience which stands with our vision. 
 
MY ROLE // I was brought it in company to overhaul the current brand and product experience. and it was here, I lead the overall rebranding effort of Homesuite into 2nd Address. 
 

My Role 

Senior UX Lead

Specialities 

UX/UI Strategy & Design

Interaction Design  

UX Research, Testing

Brand Design

Visual & Marketing Design

Skills   

User flows, Wireframes,

Interaction, Prototyping,

Development Support 

Tools 

Sketch, Invision,

Photoshop, Illustrator

Homesuite successfully was rebranded to 2nd Address in Nov 2017.

KEY PROJECTS WITHIN REBRANDING

BRAND IDENTITY

RENAMING HOMESUITE

BRAND NARRATIVE

MOODBOARDS

MARKETING IDENTITY

LOGO/COLOR

LOOK & FEEL

MESSAGING

DESIGN LANGUAGE 

VISUAL STYLE GUIDE

UI PATTERN LIBRARY

PRODUCT PAGES

WEBSITE/LANDING PAGES

GUEST PAGE

HOST PAGE

ABOUT US PAGE

DESIGN PROCESS

Kick Off: Reimagining the Brand 

I started with doing the audit of our current product and experience overall understanding our current style guide,  UI pattern library.  I wanted to understand the   I with my teammates along with the brand consultants, started to interview all the stakeholders involved so as to get the overall mission and vision of the company. 

Brand Workshop

We conducted a brand workshop with all the stakeholders, so as to create a brand narrative. Within our workshop we tried to define the  key attributes of the company of how what feeling we wanted to give to our customers. We put together the key differentiators from our competitors. After that we tried to put together our belief statements - our mission, what are we trying to solve, what do we hate vs what our vision is and what our values are. 

Brand Name 

In parallel we started to run lot of brainstorming sessions for possible names within all of us. We start addressing how each of them will associate with the personality we wanted to represent as well as how viable it is to get those domain names.
Finally we shortlisted few of them and start rating them on basis of first impressions, practicality and general feedback.  For all good reasons we found something to liking of all and went ahead with 2nd Address.

Finally we had a brand new name  

2nd Address 

Logo Design

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CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

Wireframes & Storytelling

Styleguide & UI Pattern Library

DETAILED SOLUTION

 2nd Address Landing Pages

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