ProArt Web Design Revamp

Redesigned ASUS ProArt’s website to elevate brand identity, improve accessibility, and streamline content hierarchy, resulting in a more engaging and usable experience for creative professionals.

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Website

My role

Lead UI Designer & Design System Architect

Timeline

Q3 2022 - Q2 2023

Collaboration

Design Manager, UX Researcher, Marketing Team, Brand Team, Product Team, Developers

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About ProArt

ProArt is ASUS’s flagship line built for elite creatives—filmmakers, designers, animators, and creators who expect precision and world-class craft.

The website is the brand’s primary touchpoint, but the previous experience failed to reflect ProArt’s premium standards. Our challenge was to rebuild the website’s foundation, enhance clarity, improve accessibility, and create a scalable system supporting rapid product and campaign growth.

Project Context

Prior to the redesign, the ProArt website suffered from:

  • Inconsistent brand expression

  • Weak hierarchy and cluttered layouts

  • Low accessibility and contrast issues

  • Disconnected components built by different teams

  • Breakpoints that failed across devices

  • A CMS that limited layout flexibility

These issues not only impacted usability—they hindered the brand’s ability to launch new products, campaigns, and creator partnerships efficiently. This project required problem reframing, alignment across marketing/brand/engineering, and designing for a scalable, cross-functional future.

Research & Discovery

I structured the discovery phase around four parallel tracks to handle ambiguous and sometimes conflicting stakeholder expectations. Through stakeholder interviews, competitive reviews, and usability testing, we identified both user pain points and business challenges.

As ProArt expanded its product lines, the website needed to scale and support new categories. Through stakeholder interviews, competitive reviews, and usability testing, we identified both user pain points and business challenges.

Discovery Framework

Stakeholder Interviews

Aligning vision with business, brand, and technical constraints

Competitive Benchmarking

Analyzing industry standards and emerging patterns

User Testing

Validating assumptions through real user interactions

Synthesis & Design Direction

Translating insights into actionable design principles

Marketing

We need storytelling flexibility for campaign updates.

Engineering

Design must align with CMS constraints for modular rollout.

Business

The site must scale for new ProArt product lines.

Brand

Visuals should reflect our premium creative identity.

Key Outcomes

Modular Storytelling

Component-based architecture enabling flexible content narratives

Brand Consistency

Design system ensuring cohesive visual language across touchpoints

Scalable Framework

Future-proof structure accommodating product expansion

Discovery Framework

Discovery Framework

Stakeholder Interviews

Stakeholder Interviews

Aligning vision with business, brand, and technical constraints

Aligning vision with business, brand, and technical constraints

Competitive Benchmarking

Competitive Benchmarking

Analyzing industry standards and emerging patterns

Analyzing industry standards and emerging patterns

User Testing

User Testing

Validating assumptions through real user interactions

Validating assumptions through real user interactions

Synthesis & Design Direction

Synthesis & Design Direction

Translating insights into actionable design principles

Translating insights into actionable design principles

Marketing

Marketing

We need storytelling flexibility for campaign updates.

We need storytelling flexibility for campaign updates.

Engineering

Engineering

Design must align with CMS constraints for modular rollout.

Design must align with CMS constraints for modular rollout.

Business

Business

The site must scale for new ProArt product lines.

The site must scale for new ProArt product lines.

Brand

Brand

Visuals should reflect our premium creative identity.

Visuals should reflect our premium creative identity.

Key Outcomes

Key Outcomes

Modular Storytelling

Modular Storytelling

Component-based architecture enabling flexible content narratives

Component-based architecture enabling flexible content narratives

Brand Consistency

Brand Consistency

Design system ensuring cohesive visual language across touchpoints

Design system ensuring cohesive visual language across touchpoints

Scalable Framework

Scalable Framework

Future-proof structure accommodating product expansion

Future-proof structure accommodating product expansion

Discovery Framework

Stakeholder Interviews

Aligning vision with business, brand, and technical constraints

Competitive Benchmarking

Analyzing industry standards and emerging patterns

User Testing

Validating assumptions through real user interactions

Synthesis & Design Direction

Translating insights into actionable design principles

Marketing

We need storytelling flexibility for campaign updates.

Engineering

Design must align with CMS constraints for modular rollout.

Business

The site must scale for new ProArt product lines.

Brand

Visuals should reflect our premium creative identity.

Key Outcomes

Modular Storytelling

Component-based architecture enabling flexible content narratives

Brand Consistency

Design system ensuring cohesive visual language across touchpoints

Scalable Framework

Future-proof structure accommodating product expansion

Reframing the Problem

As ProArt expanded its product lines, the website needed to scale and support new categories. Through stakeholder interviews, competitive reviews, and usability testing, we identified both user pain points and business challenges.

Business Problem

Business Problem

ProArt’s website could not scale with the brand’s growth, slowing campaign launches and undermining premium brand perception.

User Problem

User Problem

Users found the information structure unclear, the visuals overwhelming, and accessibility insufficient for professional environments.

Design Problem

Design Problem

How might we create a highly flexible, accessible, and cohesive website system that reinforces brand identity and scales across new product lines and storytelling formats?

Prioritization Approach

I identified issues during discovery and prioritized them with PM + engineering using an impact vs. effort matrix.
Phase 1 – Highest Priority : These directly influence engagement, comprehension, and brand credibility.
Phase 2 – Secondary Priority :
These required deeper engineering investment and were scheduled for later sprints.
This decision-making framework ensured we solved the right problems first.

Key Design Gaps

Beyond the high-level reframed problem, we analyzed the existing ProArt website to identify the specific usability, accessibility, and scalability gaps blocking both user goals and business needs. These issues shaped our Phase 1 priorities and guided the design execution strategy.

Weak visual hierarchy

Users struggled to identify important content; pages felt cluttered and overwhelming.

Insufficient color contrast

Low accessibility, especially for professionals working in varied environments.

Dynamic responsiveness

Layouts often broke or felt clunky on mobile and tablet, frustrating users.

New product lines, new pages

The website needed a scalable system that could easily expand to support future ProArt offerings without compromising usability.

Weak visual hierarchy

Users struggled to identify important content; pages felt cluttered and overwhelming.

Insufficient color contrast

Low accessibility, especially for professionals working in varied environments.

Dynamic responsiveness

Layouts often broke or felt clunky on mobile and tablet, frustrating users.

New product lines, new pages

The website needed a scalable system that could easily expand to support future ProArt offerings without compromising usability.

Weak visual hierarchy

Users struggled to identify important content; pages felt cluttered and overwhelming.

Insufficient color contrast

Low accessibility, especially for professionals working in varied environments.

Dynamic responsiveness

Layouts often broke or felt clunky on mobile and tablet, frustrating users.

New product lines, new pages

The website needed a scalable system that could easily expand to support future ProArt offerings without compromising usability.

Weak visual hierarchy

Users struggled to identify important content; pages felt cluttered and overwhelming.

Insufficient color contrast

Low accessibility, especially for professionals working in varied environments.

Dynamic responsiveness

Layouts often broke or felt clunky on mobile and tablet, frustrating users.

New product lines, new pages

The website needed a scalable system that could easily expand to support future ProArt offerings without compromising usability.

Design Execution

The redesign addressed these pain points with a scalable design system that improved clarity, accessibility, responsiveness, and flexibility.

Visual hierarchy

Using insights from eye-tracking patterns, I adopted a refined Z-pattern structure to guide users from hero content → narrative → product action. Establishing a clear text hierarchy through typography levels, spacing, and grouping improved readability and allowed users to scan and compare information more easily.

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Improving Color & Accessibility

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Responsive Design

Visual hierarchy

Using insights from eye-tracking patterns, I adopted a refined Z-pattern structure to guide users from hero content → narrative → product action. Establishing a clear text hierarchy through typography levels, spacing, and grouping improved readability and allowed users to scan and compare information more easily.

Improving Color & Accessibility

We developed a new color palette that met WCAG AA standards, ensuring sufficient contrast between text and background. By applying consistent color rules across the entire UI, we enhanced readability while reinforcing ProArt’s premium brand presence.

Responsive Design

We adopted a mobile-first approach and built a fluid grid system with clear breakpoints. This ensured the design scaled smoothly from small screens to larger displays, delivering a consistent and dynamic user experience across devices.

Visual hierarchy

Using insights from eye-tracking patterns, I adopted a refined Z-pattern structure to guide users from hero content → narrative → product action. Establishing a clear text hierarchy through typography levels, spacing, and grouping improved readability and allowed users to scan and compare information more easily.

Improving Color & Accessibility

We developed a new color palette that met WCAG AA standards, ensuring sufficient contrast between text and background. By applying consistent color rules across the entire UI, we enhanced readability while reinforcing ProArt’s premium brand presence.

Responsive Design

We adopted a mobile-first approach and built a fluid grid system with clear breakpoints. This ensured the design scaled smoothly from small screens to larger displays, delivering a consistent and dynamic user experience across devices.

Visual hierarchy

Using insights from eye-tracking patterns, I adopted a refined Z-pattern structure to guide users from hero content → narrative → product action. Establishing a clear text hierarchy through typography levels, spacing, and grouping improved readability and allowed users to scan and compare information more easily.

Improving Color & Accessibility

We developed a new color palette that met WCAG AA standards, ensuring sufficient contrast between text and background. By applying consistent color rules across the entire UI, we enhanced readability while reinforcing ProArt’s premium brand presence.

Responsive Design

We adopted a mobile-first approach and built a fluid grid system with clear breakpoints. This ensured the design scaled smoothly from small screens to larger displays, delivering a consistent and dynamic user experience across devices.

Design Highlights

New Page - “What Pro Says” Storytelling Page

As ProArt expanded its product lines, there was a growing need for new pages that could highlight collaborations with artists, studios, and institutions. The “What Pro Says” page is a central storytelling hub, transforming the website from a static catalog into a platform for authentic voices.

Design Prototype

Hero & Gallery Section

We focused on two critical areas: the Hero section and the Gallery section. These sections worked to inspire users while boosting engagement, anchoring the storytelling approach of the page.

Testing & Validation

I proposed three layout directions (A, B, C), evaluating each with marketing, brand, engineering, and QA. Layout C was selected for its stronger discoverability, flexible carousel structure, and smoother performance on lower-end devices.

Why Layout C?

  • Highest discoverability

  • Carousel-based gallery fit more stories without clutter

  • Smoothest performance across low-end devices

  • Best support for modular CMS components

Insights from testing

Stakeholders’ Perspective

"This design offer more discoverability and highlight a broader range of collaborations."

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Product Marketing

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Stakeholders’ Perspective

"This design offer more discoverability and highlight a broader range of collaborations."

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Product Marketing

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Stakeholders’ Perspective

"This design offer more discoverability and highlight a broader range of collaborations."

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Users’ Perspective

"The carousel is interactive and includes detailed information, which works well to engage users."

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Our TA

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Users’ Perspective

"The carousel is interactive and includes detailed information, which works well to engage users."

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Users’ Perspective

"The carousel is interactive and includes detailed information, which works well to engage users."

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Performance Testing

"Animations need to be smooth and responsive across all devices for an optimal user experience."

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Quality Testing Team

Performance Testing

"Animations need to be smooth and responsive across all devices for an optimal user experience."

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Quality Testing Team

Performance Testing

"Animations need to be smooth and responsive across all devices for an optimal user experience."

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Quality Testing Team

We proposed three layouts, testing each with stakeholders for user experience and technical performance.

Why Layout C?

  • Showcased a wider range of collaborations, offering diverse content.

  • Used a carousel gallery for a dynamic, user-friendly experience.

  • Delivered smoother animations and faster load times across devices.

Design System

To ensure consistency and scalability, we developed a modular design system:

  • Core Styles: Defined typography, color palettes, and grid system aligned with ProArt’s brand identity.

  • Reusable Components: Built a flexible library of cards, buttons, carousels, and testimonial modules.

  • Scalability: Enabled rapid iteration and seamless integration across multiple pages.

This system reduced design inconsistencies by 60% and accelerated future page development.

Delivery

For design handoff, we prepared a comprehensive design document including mockup assets, responsive layout specifications, component behaviors, and key design considerations. Weekly sprints with designers, developers, and marketing ensured smooth alignment, while continuous stakeholder reviews minimized rework and kept both brand and technical goals on track.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

I partnered closely with PM, engineering, marketing, brand, and QA to move from ambiguity to clarity and ensure smooth implementation across teams.

With PM

Aligned on scope, phased priorities, and success metrics to ensure we solved the highest-impact problems first.

With PM

Aligned on scope, phased priorities, and success metrics to ensure we solved the highest-impact problems first.

With PM

Aligned on scope, phased priorities, and success metrics to ensure we solved the highest-impact problems first.

With Engineering

Collaborated on CMS constraints, responsive behavior, and feasibility checks; refined components through iterative prototype reviews.

With Engineering

Collaborated on CMS constraints, responsive behavior, and feasibility checks; refined components through iterative prototype reviews.

With Engineering

Collaborated on CMS constraints, responsive behavior, and feasibility checks; refined components through iterative prototype reviews.

With Marketing

Ensured modules supported flexible storytelling needs while preserving layout consistency and reducing content bottlenecks.

With Marketing

Ensured modules supported flexible storytelling needs while preserving layout consistency and reducing content bottlenecks.

With Marketing

Ensured modules supported flexible storytelling needs while preserving layout consistency and reducing content bottlenecks.

With Brand Team

Balanced design expression with brand guardrails, refining typography, color, and imagery to reflect ProArt’s premium identity.

With Brand Team

Balanced design expression with brand guardrails, refining typography, color, and imagery to reflect ProArt’s premium identity.

With Brand Team

Balanced design expression with brand guardrails, refining typography, color, and imagery to reflect ProArt’s premium identity.

With QA & Testing

Defined accessibility and responsive edge cases; validated animation thresholds and ensured final implementation met WCAG standards.

With QA & Testing

Defined accessibility and responsive edge cases; validated animation thresholds and ensured final implementation met WCAG standards.

With QA & Testing

Defined accessibility and responsive edge cases; validated animation thresholds and ensured final implementation met WCAG standards.

Final Design

The final ProArt website unifies clarity, accessibility, and premium brand expression into a cohesive, scalable system. Key pages—from the homepage to product flows and storytelling modules—were redesigned using consistent hierarchy, accessible color rules, and a flexible component library. The final design represents a polished, future-ready foundation for ProArt’s growing creative ecosystem.

Impact

Quantitative

  • +25% increase in page engagement

  • 80% reduction in accessibility issues

  • 60% fewer UI inconsistencies through systemization

Qualitative

  • Stronger premium brand perception

  • Faster campaign and product launches

  • Improved creator storytelling and content discoverability

  • More stable performance across devices

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