Régie Braun

Rebranding | Design System | Website Optimization

Product Designer

2022-present
(ongoing)

Figma
Canva
Adobe Photoshop

UX Research
User interviews
Competitor analysis
Prototyping

The team

1
Product Designer
1
Front-end Developer & Graphic Designer
1
Back-end Developer

About Régie Braun

This family-owned real estate company was founded by my grand father in 1942 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Originally launched in the '90s, Régie Braun's website is undergoing a complete makeover thanks to our efforts to meet the needs of today's users with a rebrand and redesign.

The Project

Throughout this project I have been working closely with another designer/front-end developer as well as with a backend developer.

Collaborating with another designer, we're crafting a new Design System for the website's overhaul, alongside significant UX enhancements. The project's cornerstone is optimising time-intensive, manual tasks through a refined UX/UI layout especially for the rental part of the website, streamlining the overall user experience.

Disclaimer: the newer version of this website is under developement and has not been launched yet.

Seamless leases: improving the rental application journey

Régie Braun's application process lacked an online upload feature, leading to longer processing times and user frustration. We improved the system with progress indicators and document upload steps, allowing users to submit applications and email pending documents later. Technical and business limitations hindered the creation of user accounts for saving progress and files.

Building a tailored Design System from the ground up

For this project, I had to create a scalable design system from scratch as there were no old components or documentation available. This was definitely a time consuming task but ended up to be extremely rewarding as it taught me so much.

This design system is confidential and can thus not be shared in my portfolio but I would love to give you to give you a better insight regarding the whole process if you're interested.

What has been my biggest challenge so far and how am I solving it?

“The difficulty to gather the right stakeholders at some crucial time points has been impacting directly the duration of this project and made it take longer than expected."

“I solved this issue by organising recurring meetings with specific team members to get their feedback and input in order to finalise this project and align it with the company's goals and vision."