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Designing Gen-Z Ecommerce Across Two Markets

Using behavioral evidence, generational context, and local-market research to make a playful product easier to buy.

Key results

100%

reported sales uplift versus the previous store

200%reported ROI from performance campaigns
400+pages across two market strategy documents
2country-specific ecommerce strategies
Portfolio archiveTwo market strategies

Project colophon

Molecula

Molecula logo
Role
Graphics Team Leader / UX Lead
Engagement
6 months
Scope
UX/UI · Workshops · Ecommerce · Market Strategy
Tools
Figma · Hotjar · Miro

Molecula sold a product designed to be expressive and social, but the purchase journey did not fully reflect how its youngest customers behaved. Many could choose and configure a drink themselves while still relying on a parent to complete the transaction.

I led the design work from behavioral analysis through the Polish launch and the subsequent German-market strategy. The project connected UX, ecommerce, campaign planning, and cultural research instead of treating the website as an isolated surface.

The customer choosing the product and the person completing the purchase were often not the same person.
01

Designing for a shared purchase decision

Hotjar heatmaps and session recordings exposed where the existing journey lost attention and where customer intent failed to become a purchase. The evidence helped the team move beyond assumptions about what a Gen-Z interface should look like.

From observation to a simpler path

I translated the behavioral patterns into a report of customer needs and pain points, then used it to simplify navigation, product discovery, and the route to checkout. A key design problem was the handoff between a younger customer who wanted the product and a parent who controlled the payment.

The resulting experience gave the brand room to remain energetic while making the commercial path more legible. According to the project analytics recorded in the presentation, sales had doubled by December compared with the previous ecommerce experience, while performance campaigns returned a reported 200% ROI.

The purchase journey rebuilt from cart to checkout, with product education carried alongside itHeatmap of a product page, the behavioural evidence behind the changes to the purchase journey
Evidence behind the purchase journeyThe rebuilt purchase journey, and the heatmap that justified rebuilding it.
02

Taking the strategy from Poland to Germany

A successful Polish direction could not simply be translated word for word. The German expansion required a new understanding of tone, visual expectations, category familiarity, and the way local customers evaluated the offer.

Research before localization

The team combined desk research, conversations with German-speaking customers, and a workshop with the client's sales stakeholders. We documented the differences in tone and aesthetic, then converted them into a market-specific ecommerce and communication direction.

The work produced two strategy documents of more than two hundred pages each, a twelve-month brand plan, KPI expectations, and a budget framework. Rather than exporting one campaign, the company received a repeatable way to enter a new market with evidence.

The German storefront running its own promotions and voice while staying recognisably MoleculaStrategy deck setting out how one brand runs two market approaches in parallelSocial reach over the campaign period, peaking at 126,671 in a single day
One brand, two market strategiesThe German storefront, the strategy behind it, the campaign motion, and the reach it produced. One brand, two markets, two different arguments.

Playfulness works better when the path is clear

Molecula showed that designing for a young audience is not a license to replace usability with spectacle. The strongest result came from connecting expressive brand behavior to a journey grounded in evidence, then rebuilding that understanding for each market rather than assuming it would travel unchanged.

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