ScentPlace

For my personal development, for staying up-to-date, and simply out of passion, I occasionally work on such private projects. Without time pressure and everything to my taste.

I love collecting perfumes and spend a significant amount of time on Parfumo, one of the largest perfume communities in the world. So, because of that and because I saw a lot of room for improvement in terms of UX and UI, I got inspired to create a competing product with a different, more user-friendly and organized functionality, and a new modern and clean design. Here is a short summary of the exciting but also nerve-wracking couple of months.

So what did the target audience say?

The main thing is that I can see the reviews, ratings and scent notes of the perfumes ☝️

The structure is confusing and important elements are often collapsed

It's a shame there's no proper mobile version or app 🙁

To be honest, I think the design is outdated and unappealing

What are they talking about? Why can you only see the last 6 chat messages?

Everything is kind of confusing, unnecessary functions make everything cluttered 🤨

For me the marketplace is really important!

Obviously I want to communicate with other members

I use the collection and wishlist features the most

The first thing I want to see are the news and activities

At the point of structuring content and wireframing, I realized that I was a bit over my head and that the community concept is quite complex. But we love a good challenge!