SheKnows
Branding
User Experience
Responsive Web
2017
ROLE
Visual Design Lead
AGENCY
Charming Robot
COLLABORATORS
Amber Assay, Amanda Rios: Brand Design
Sarah Doody: User Experience
SheKnows.com is the flagship property of SheKnows Media, a media company ranked in the top four of comScore’s Female Audience in Lifestyles Category with 24.6 million millennial women visitors each month. As such, it is a heavy-traffick website with extremely low brand recognition. Charming Robot and a team of collaborators worked to give the site a thorough refresh, including a new identity and a modern, user-friendly web experience.
![SheKnows_start](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_4-1.png)
![SheKnows_start](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_4-1.png)
The original (and currently public) suite of SheKnows Media brands.
Concept Exploration
![SheKnows_3](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_3.png)
![SheKnows_3](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_3.png)
Moodboard
![mood board](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_5.png)
![mood board](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_5.png)
Brand Mission
To champion, encourage and elevate the voices and interests of all women everywhere.
Brand Pillars
Female-first
We care about women’s issues because they are our issues. We are for women, by women – without hierarchy, judgement or shade.
Community-driven
It’s our goal to foster and encourage honest conversationl when women share their stories and experiences, everyone benefits. We make each other stronger.
Empowering
We’re giving real women’s issues and opinions the voice and attention they deserve, from high-impact social issues to everyday interests.
Chosen Direction
Though at the beginning of the project we anticipated taking the SheKnows brand in a new direction, away from that of the parent company, as the engagement went on we reached the conclusion that losing that connection would be detrimental in the minds of the leadership – and so we ended up evolving the current brand to a modern place while maintaining a level of connection to the other SheKnows Media brands.
![sk-logo](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/sk-logo.png)
![sk-logo](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/sk-logo.png)
![shortened mark](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/sk-copy.png)
![shortened mark](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/sk-copy.png)
![Brand suite with new logo](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows-Brand-Presentation-20161222-4.png)
![Brand suite with new logo](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows-Brand-Presentation-20161222-4.png)
![SheKnows_6 copy](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_6-copy.png)
![SheKnows_6 copy](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_6-copy.png)
![SheKnows_9](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_9.png)
![SheKnows_9](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_9.png)
![SheKnows_8](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_8.png)
![SheKnows_8](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_8.png)
![SheKnows_10](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_10.png)
![SheKnows_10](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_10.png)
![SheKnows.com](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SK_0019_6.png)
![SheKnows.com](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SK_0019_6.png)
New identity in-use on the site’s home page.
![article page with locking header](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SK_0015_2.png)
![article page with locking header](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SK_0015_2.png)
Article page experience with a locking header.
![SK_0016_3](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SK_0016_3.png)
![SK_0016_3](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SK_0016_3.png)
Mid-article pull quote
![SK_0018_5](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SK_0018_5.png)
![SK_0018_5](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SK_0018_5.png)
Mid-article writing prompt for readers.
![SheKnows_11](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_11.png)
![SheKnows_11](http://www.holderdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SheKnows_11.png)
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