Event-ticketing landing page

The event-ticketing landing page for Rick Riordan's book tour on DisneyBooks.com.

Role
Designer
Timeline
3 weeks
Skills
UX design, prototyping
Skills
UX design, prototyping
A screenshot of the landing page that was pushed live to DisneyBooks.com.

The problem

The landing page on DisneyBooks.com needed to accomplish three things:

  • Establish the name of the book tour as "The Trials of Uncle Rick."
  • Associate the tour with the release of the new book, The Trials of Apollo: The Tower of Nero.
  • Communicate that the author, Rick Riordan, will have different guest authors at each event.

My solution

Given that the landing page would be hosted on DisneyBooks.com, but needed to appear distinctively branded "Riordan," I planned to combine some design elements from DisneyBooks.com (fonts, button styling) with the colors and primary font from ReadRiordan.com.

“See all tour stops” button

I added this button as a compromise after stakeholders voiced concerns that the events fell "below the fold." Once clicked, the button scrolls the page down to reveal the list of events.

“Sold out” button state

Once the landing page was live and events began to sell out. I realized that the buttons needed a disabled state to indicate that an event was sold out. So I worked with our developer to quickly implement this “sold out” button state.

Stakeholder collaboration

Below are the different iterations of the landing page design based on feedback from stakeholders.

  • Version 1: Elements like the gray background and yellow call-to-action button were inherited from the style of DisneyBooks.com, but the book mockup was too far down the page to effectively associate the events with the new book.
  • Version 2 and 3: I moved the book mockup to the top of the page to help make it clear that the events were connected to the release of the new book.
  • Version 4 and 5: Stakeholders requested a higher contrast between the event blocks and the page background, so I experimented with a dark navy blue background, which matches the branding of ReadRiordan.com.
  • Versions 6 and 7: To simplify the elements at the top of the page, I removed the book mockup and incorporated the dark cave imagery from the book cover into the page background to maximize the contrast between the text and background.
  • Version 8: Instead of using the cave imagery from the book cover art, I replaced it with art that showcased the titular character, Apollo, which added more context and excitement to the background image.
  • Version 9: Stakeholders wanted to add a description of the tour at the top of the page, so I added a gradient over the background image, to maximize the contrast between the description text and background, thus keeping it accessible to visually-impaired users. This is the wireframe I delivered to our web developer to create the staging site.

After interacting with the staging site, our stakeholders had additional feedback, so I adjusted the design accordingly.

For example, there was concern about the events being placed "below the fold." Although I explained that users are well-conditioned to scroll down a web page, I was able to negotiate a compromise–adding a "See all tour stops" button above "the fold" that scrolls down to the events when clicked.

© 2021 Designed by Jennifer Chan.