Playful design as a strategic advantage

Playful design as a strategic advantage

By making it understandable, useful & actionable.

By making it understandable, useful & actionable.

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CLIENT TYPE

Design agency

PROJECT TYPE

Brand strategy &
identity development

YEAR

2025

PROJECT ROLE

Product & visual designer

PROJECT CONTRIBUTION

Stakeholder analysis

Sitemap & wireframing

Information architecture

Website layout

Rapid prototyping

Branding & theme design
Design strategy

Content curation

Visual design & content creation

TOOLS

Figma

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom
Nikon D5600

GoDaddy Website Builder

COLLABORATORS

Sanya Gupta,
Product & visual designer

Here's the backstory in 05 points

01

The client

Court of Jester is an art & design studio that uses playful design to help brands stand out & connect with their crowd.

A brand &
their event.

Court of Jester's
contribution.

How it connects
with the crowd.

02

Their crowd

🧑🏻‍🏭

Non-designer
clients

Need to quickly understand services & see proof to trust.

🧑🏾‍🎨

Designer
clients

Need high benchmarks for novelty to be met before trusting.

🧑🏼‍💻

Remote
clients

Need clear information, easy navigation & hook to hold attention.

🤹🏽

Court of
Jester's team

Need to update with future projects quickly.

03

The challenge

🎨

Limited
understanding
of design

Most people don’t fully grasp what design is & playful design sits even deeper within that niche.

🙅🏽

Bias against
'play'

Play is often taken lightly; this project needed to establish its value as a serious design approach.

🧩

Fragmented
understanding
of services

The diverse nature of projects led to a disjointed perception of what the studio actually offers.

🎨

🎨

Limited
understanding
of design

Most people don’t fully grasp what design is & playful design sits even deeper within that niche.

🙅🏽

🙅🏽

Bias against
'play'

Play is often taken lightly; this project needed to establish its value as a serious design approach.

🧩

🧩

Fragmented
understanding
of services

The diverse nature of projects led to a disjointed perception of what the studio actually offers.

🧩

🧩

Fragmented
understanding
of services

The diverse nature of projects led to a disjointed perception of what the studio actually offers.

04

Our goals

🎯

Clearly communicate the studio's work & services offered to unfamiliar audiences.

🌐

Create a flexible, easy to update project showcase system for the internal team.

05

Our strategy

Step 01

Attract attention & excite using play

📈

Step 02

Educate about impact of playful design

Step 03

Validate with past projects as proof of impact

🫴🏽

Step 04

Offer services of the studio & invite collabs

Here's how we made it
happen in 05 points

Here's how we made it happen in 05 points

01

Information architecture

Home page: Excite & communicate impact.

About page: Build trust by showcasing past clients.

Work page: Quick access to projects for the team.

Services page: Demonstrate ways to engage.

02

Generating curiosity

By photographing, editing & creating exciting thumbnails for 25+ projects.

03

Curating tone & developing text

To balance quirkiness that excites & clarity that communicates.

04

Future-proofing & scalability

By creating simplified project templates for streamlining future project uploads.

Large full screen images
for main showcase.

Grids for showcasing features.

Carousel for showcasing process, prototypes & in use.

05

Categorizing content

Into easy to understand, industry standard domains.

The result

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