Work / Covers Builders Merchants
Case study / 2024

Covers Builders.

Sector
Building Materials / E-commerce
Website
Services
UX/UI Design
The brief

A large-scale e-commerce redesign for one of the UK's established builders merchants.

Covers Builders Merchants serves trade and retail customers across a wide product catalogue. The existing e-commerce experience had grown organically over years — functional in parts, frustrating in others, and inconsistent throughout.

This was a design-only engagement: no build, just thorough, research-led UX and UI work. That meant understanding two distinct user types — trade professionals buying in volume and retail customers making considered one-off purchases — and designing an experience that genuinely served both.

The work covered the full e-commerce journey: homepage, category architecture, product pages, search, filtering, basket, and checkout. Every decision was grounded in user research and validated against conversion principles.

Covers Builders Merchants — hero
UX/UI Design — 2024

The Work

A look at the thinking, decisions, and craft behind the project — from early direction to final build.

Covers Builders Merchants — view 1
Covers Builders Merchants — view 2
Covers Builders Merchants — view 3

Design

Typography, colour, and layout working together — nothing arbitrary, everything earned.

Design & visual direction

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