Outlier

 

PROJECT TYPE

Platform Design

SKILLS

User Experience

User Interface

Design Direction

Outlier is a Brooklyn-based men’s clothing brand that focuses on urban wear. Their core brand narrative is providing functional, innovative designs using proprietary fabrics that are made to last. 

I visualized the narrative for their website by collaborating with founder Abe Burmeister in presenting a style indicative of the brand’s aesthetic of brutalism. This theme permeated the appearance and functions of the home page, navigation page, collection pages, and product pages. My interpretation of the brutalist visual concept led to the elimination of the restrictive visual boundaries between the desktop and mobile interface resulting in one integrated interface that showcased a massive, monolithic, and blocky appearance with rigid geometric style. 

Home Page / Collection Page

The tile-view carousel and collection view represent the features of brutalist architecture associated with modular elements that are grouped into a unified whole.

 
 
 
 

Navigation

The pointy rectangular shape on the navigation page is styled and grouped with the unique company logo to convey a deconstructive visual. 

 

The desktop navigation view - the same appearance between desktop & mobile

 

Visualized filter associated with brutalist style

 

Unconventional view of sizing information

Unconventional view of fabric details

Brutalist cross sell module on the bottom

Clean & simple layout of the minicart

Product Page

All web elements are square or rectangular by design in order to effectuate the brutalist visual concept. The images are not restricted to a certain height in order to convey a sense of scale that is hardly seen in regular e-commerce sites. These design decisions allow users to examine their products in more detail without the need to zoom in. The size pickers are designed concisely, but are tightly packed together to further the blocky and geometric aesthetic of brutalism.

 

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