Project Information
Web Design
About the Company
Blenz distinguishes itself from other Canadian coffee chains with handcrafted, innovative beverages that boast authentic ingredients, plus genuine interactions with customers and comfortable coffeehouse environments. They’ve been a market leader since 1992.
The objective:
- Improve the overall aesthetic and user experience and make the site more engaging.
- Drive conversion of site visitors into contacts and, ultimately, customers through the app.
- Implement a more user-friendly and easy-to-manage menu area, including new drinks and seasonal campaigns.
- Expand the current franchisee area, including login for easy access to common files, updates, and forms.
- Build on SEO foundations to increase search engine traffic and drive future growth.
- Implement a fully responsive solution backed by WordPress CMS for easy content management.
PHASE 1
Prototyping
PHASE 2
Style
Blenz has a great palette of colours that make you think of a warm coffee shop and tasty beverages. Their old site leaned more heavily on the yellows and browns. We were able to add depth and texture to the pages by playing with more tints and shades, and playing up the fun blues and greens in the background illustrations that came with their rebrand.
PHASE 3
Bringing it All Together
The new Blenz website makes their rebranded content shine. It’s spacious, extremely easy to browse, and has numerous enticing paths to get the app and place orders. There’s fresh storytelling around their ingredients, which are their big differentiator. A mega-menu viewable on desktop devices allows promotional content. And we added a new store locator for them, to help people who are already on the site instead of having to exit to do a maps search. To top it all off, we redesigned and rebuilt their franchisee portal at the same time, all on our site builder plugin, Refoundry.
