Relaunching the Masterbuilt
& Kamado Joe Digital Experiences
SITE
What if...
Following acquisition by leading PE firm Middleby, outdoor living brands Masterbuilt and Kamado Joe were poised for post-pandemic growth with a massive potential ROI by fleshing out their collective digital channel strategy and ecommerce experience. That's where we came in.
We did...
Working with the collective teams at both Masterbuilt and Kamado Joe, we were able to create a brand new modular design system built on the leading ecommerce platform Shopify Plus to serve customers, clients, and the market in a bold new way – enabling both brands to drive new forms of growth and demand through digital channels.
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Working with two well-established brands already online today, we needed to be thoughtful with how we would architect a new, modular solution that enabled us to best balance discoverability (SEO), technical requirements (debt avoidance), and usability (UX) for all users involved. We began our engagement with a rigorous data and experience audit to help us benchmark each property respectively while facilitating various co-creation workshops and listening sessions with stakeholders across both brands. This allowed us to determine and shape an overall strategy to best serve the team’s short and long-term digital marketing while delivering a best-in-class customer journey and experience.
While most brands have an experience that’s serviceable for users on mobile devices, few build their experiences truly mobile first. To support a well-rounded digital strategy that could match customers’ shopping and consumption behaviors both in aisles and in front of their grill afterward, we opted for a true mobile-first methodology that could make key content and CTAs fast, fluid, and always within a thumb’s reach.
Designing a modular design system is one thing, but being able to apply it to and within a platform that can fully take advantage of it is an entirely separate ballgame. To maximize the team’s ability to scale their digital CX across both brands and all respective product lines with ease, we leveraged Shopify Plus with a mix of other progressive, CRM-focused integrations to create a powerful martech stack that was as efficient as it was effective when it came to scale.
Any grillmaster will tell you the sizzle is just as important as the steak itself. When you’re in the business of outdoor living, entertainment, and dining, one of the most effective ways to drive engagement is by making the experience for customers visceral. That means turning up the dial to 10 using interactivity to show off the craftsmanship and quality of the grills to the mouth-watering meats themselves.
If we were going to help Middleby put a stake (or steak?) in the ground with their commitment to digital strategy and ecommerce, they needed a design system that could drive it. As such, we built and branded a fully robust, React.js atomic design system (via Storybook) which we named the “Firestarter Design System” as a living asset library that the team could manage, update, and deploy to the main Shopify themes for any and all future digital products and services.
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