Dani Lapointe

Sei Bella Redesign

UX/UI Case Study

Melaleuca — Sei Bella Product Detail Page

Designing a Better Product Discovery Experience

Role
Lead UI/UX Designer
Company
Melaleuca
Project
Product Detail Page Redesign
Platform
E-Commerce Web

Redesigned Digital Experience — High-Fidelity Preview

Shop / Skin Care / Treatment Serums

SEI BELLA

Bakuchiol Renewing Serum bottle styled on a warm cream backdrop with soft shadows
Bakuchiol serum bottle, alternate front angle
Bakuchiol serum texture swatch close-up
Bakuchiol serum bottle with botanical ingredients
Bakuchiol serum dropper detail shot

Advanced Botanicals

Bakuchiol Renewing Serum

5 out of 5 stars,4.9 (148 Reviews)

A plant-based retinol alternative that visibly firms, reduces fine lines, and refines skin texture without irritation.

Preferred Member Price

$29.00

Regular Retail Price — $42.00

Add to Cart

30-Day Satisfaction Guarantee & Member Savings Eligible

Key Ingredients

1.5% Bakuchiol
Visibly improves signs of aging without redness.
Hyaluronic Acid
Deeply hydrates and plumps the surface layer.

01 — Overview

Creating clarity between discovery and purchase

Re-imagining a premium skincare shopping experience requires balancing refined brand storytelling with practical, high-velocity purchasing flows. The Sei Bella product detail page redesign untangled a dense forest of botanical benefit copy, pricing layers, and formulation science to create an effortless, intuitive path to purchase.

Melaleuca's unique e-commerce model relies heavily on member education and subscription benefits. Our solution prioritized high-end skincare photography, clarified the "Preferred Member vs Retail" pricing model, and restructured the information hierarchy so that scientifically curious shoppers and fast buyers both find their answers instantly.

Project Goals

01

Improve Discoverability

Surface botanical ingredients and product texture immediately, giving users tactile connection.

02

Make Info Scannable

Prioritize quick-read highlights over dense, multi-paragraph product copy blocks.

03

Strengthen Hierarchy

Draw a clean separation between secondary attributes and primary calls-to-action.

04

Clarify Purchase Path

Untangle the complex membership pricing layers to build immediate purchase confidence.

02 — The Challenge

Navigating the intersection of brand values and functional hurdles

"How might we help customers quickly understand what a product is, why they should care, and what they need to know before purchasing?"

Original PDP Schematic

Identifying 5 Key Friction Points

Original layout — flat, dense, unscannable
  1. Information Hierarchy

    A dense, flat distribution of copy forced users to scroll significantly to find basic formulation data.

  2. Benefits Buried in Content

    Crucial skin-firming properties and trial results were treated as plain body paragraphs, invisible to scanning eyes.

  3. Weak Visual Prioritization

    Generic skincare bottle photography did not showcase product textures or ingredient highlights properly.

  4. Cognitive Load

    Complex ingredient names lacked clean contextual popups or summaries, driving bounces.

  5. Competing Purchase Information

    Preferred Member vs. Regular retail prices competed for dominance, leading to purchase hesitations.

03 — Design Approach

A disciplined path from discovery to refinement

  1. 01

    Discover

    Auditing pain points, conducting competitor deep-dives in luxury cosmetics, and mapping common customer navigation paths.

  2. 02

    Structure

    Re-organizing information blocks into clear, intuitive hierarchies, prioritizing critical purchase decisions.

  3. 03

    Design

    Drafting desktop beauty-focused layouts, combining refined botanical graphics with highly optimized purchase elements.

  4. 04

    Validate

    Deploying high-fidelity mockups for click testing, validating info scanning and overall pricing transparency.

  5. 05

    Refine

    Polishing typography scales, cleaning up line rules, and securing consistency across various skin categories.

04 — High-Fidelity Design

The Redesigned Product Detail Page

The redesigned product detail page balances immersive brand storytelling with high-velocity shopping utility. We untangled botanical benefits, pricing tiers, and fragrance formulation science to design a premium, scannable, and friction-free path to purchase.

By shifting from a dense technical layout to a clean visual narrative, we surfaced key product elements instantly. Heavy emphasis was placed on showcasing natural textures, simplifying membership price comparisons, and designing interactive storytelling blocks that mimic a high-end editorial fragrance lookbook.

Full fragrance product detail page mockup

SEI BELLA

2

Shop / Fragrances / Eau De Parfum

White Floral and Warm Vanilla eau de parfum bottle styled with soft botanical shadows
White Floral and Warm Vanilla fragrance bottle, front view
Fragrance bottle side profile with warm lighting
Fragrance bottle with jasmine blossoms and vanilla pods
Fragrance bottle cap and atomizer detail

Eau de Parfum

White Floral & Warm Vanilla

5 out of 5 stars,4.9 (234 Reviews)

A luxurious, warm vanilla foundation wrapped inside absolute jasmine bud extract and fresh white orchids. A radiant fragrance designed to linger throughout the day.

Preferred Member Price

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$45.00

Regular Retail Price — $64.00

1Add to Cart

Complimentary standard shipping on orders over $50. 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes
Jasmine Bud Extract, Bergamot
Heart & Base
Vanilla Orchid, White Musk

The Formulation

Harvested at the Peak of Radiance

Our white jasmine blossoms are hand-selected at dawn when their essential oils are most concentrated. They are paired with slowly cured Madagascar vanilla pods to deliver a layered base that adjusts organically with the warmth of your skin.

Editorial still life of jasmine blossoms and Madagascar vanilla pods beside the fragrance bottle

Conscious Formula

What Makes It Beautiful

Pure Botanical Blending

Crafted using cold-pressed vanilla extract and real floral distillates for an authentic sensory experience.

Luminous Sillage

Slow-release formulation ensures the warm floral tones persist from morning light through evening shadows.

Clean Ingredients

Free from heavy synthetics, phthalates, parabens, and common skin irritants. Vegan-friendly and cruelty-free.

Complete Ingredients List

Alcohol Denat., Fragrance (Parfum), Water (Aqua), Jasmine Grandiflorum Extract, Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract, Linalool, Benzyl Salicylate, Limonene, Geraniol, Citral, Benzyl Alcohol, Farnesol.

How To Apply for Lasting Wear
Packaging & Sustainability Details

Member Reviews

Illustrative sample content — not real customer reviews

4.9

5 out of 5 stars,

Based on 234 Verified Reviews

5★92%
4★6%
3★1%
2★1%
1★0%

Showing 3 of 234 Verified Buyer Reviews

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Evelyn S. Verified Buyer

March 10, 2026

5 out of 5 stars,

A remarkably soft yet persistent vanilla. Pure elegance.

I was hesitant to buy fragrance online, but this exceeded all my expectations. The vanilla is warm and dry, not overly sweet, and the blend of jasmine gives it a beautiful, sophisticated lift. I get compliments every single time I wear it.

Marcus D. Verified Buyer

February 28, 2026

5 out of 5 stars,

Sensational texture and depth.

This fragrance adjusts beautifully to your skin chemistry. The jasmine top notes settle down into a very rich, organic musk that easily lasts through an entire workday. Excellent product packaging as well.

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05 — Information Architecture

Optimizing the structural flow for distinct intent

Hierarchical Page Flow

Visualizing the Modular Product Information Architecture

  1. Product Hero

    Gallery & Main CTA

  2. Overview

    Scientific Summary

  3. Botanical Benefits

    Ingredient Highlights

  4. Formulation Details

    Technical Specs

  5. Member Reviews

    Social Proof

  6. Related Products

    Cross-Sell Stack

Supporting the High-Velocity Decision

Quick Shoppers bypass the narrative entirely. They have high purchase intent and need an immediate, frictionless conversion funnel. The IA handles this by placing all essential pricing metrics, review aggregations, product selections, and the primary Add to Cart CTA directly in the initial viewport.

Flow: Hero Image → Preferred Price → Qty Selection → Add to Cart

Nurturing the Analytical Discovery

Exploratory Shoppers seek education before investing. Skincare products are deeply personal, requiring trust in active ingredients and clinical validation. The progressive layout guides these users seamlessly into benefit layers, ingredient summaries, interactive accordions, and community feedback.

Flow: Overview Story → Benefits Details → FAQ Accordion → Related Products

06 — Key Design Decisions

Tactical solutions that drove conversion & trust

01

Prioritizing the Product

Immediate tactile connection through oversized active ingredient photography. By presenting texture previews and ingredient raw forms alongside the bottle, we remove sensory doubt before a single line of copy is read.

Large close-up of a creamy serum texture swatch
Close-up of bakuchiol botanical ingredient texture
Close-up of hyaluronic gel texture

02

Clear Purchase Path

Untangling complex membership pricing tiers. By creating a high-contrast container for Preferred Member pricing directly above the Add to Cart action, we build immediate visual confidence in the value proposition.

Preferred Member

$29.00

Add to Cart

03

Progressive Disclosure

Organizing secondary botanical chemistry without overwhelming the customer. We mapped comprehensive clinical details into clean, minimal accordions that let scientifically curious users dive deep without distracting fast-moving buyers.

Key Ingredients

Our plant-derived Bakuchiol functions similarly to traditional retinol by signaling cells to boost collagen renewal, but without causing surface irritation or redness.

How to Use

04

Scannable Content

Leveraging whitespace, fine rules, and crisp metadata structures. We broke away from dense text blocks in favor of distinct information clusters with clear, uppercase section overlines that naturally guide the reading path.

01 — Skin Benefit

Firms and Plumps Surface Texture

Formulated to visibly firm and smooth skin texture with consistent use.

Sample product copy for design demonstration.

07 — Final Design

The complete digital experience across devices

Full Page Flow
SEI BELLAShop / Treatment
Bakuchiol Renewing Serum product photo as shown at the top of the final desktop page design
Interface Crops & Details
Close-up crop of the serum product image as rendered in the final interface

Bakuchiol Renewing Serum

Plant-based renewal, three tailored shade families.

Quantity Control

1

Hover State

Add to Cart
Mobile Responsive (390px)
SEI BELLA
Bakuchiol Renewing Serum product photo as shown on the final mobile page design

Advanced Botanicals

Bakuchiol Renewing Serum

Preferred Member Price

$29.00

Add to Cart

08 — Reflection

Balancing storytelling with utility

"This project challenged me to balance visual storytelling with the practical needs of an e-commerce experience. The final design focused on helping customers move from discovery to confidence to purchase without unnecessary friction."

Clarity before decoration

Skincare buyers have clear questions: What is in this? Does it work? How much does it cost? Every visual decision must serve to deliver those answers efficiently, prioritizing clarity over ornamental aesthetics.

Hierarchy supports confidence

By clearly organizing membership pricing structures and highlighting clinical outcomes inside isolated visual grids, we replace cognitive doubt with transaction confidence.

Storytelling must support — not compete

Botanical ingredient closeups and chemical deep-dives must never bury primary CTA targets. Design flows must isolate story elements so they run alongside, rather than blocking, high-velocity checkout paths.

This case study reflects a self-initiated conceptual redesign completed while working at Melaleuca. It is not an official Melaleuca product, campaign, or launch, and Melaleuca has not reviewed or endorsed this work. Melaleuca is a trademark of its respective owner. 'Sei Bella' is a fictional brand created for portfolio demonstration purposes.