Modular email templates

In this 43 min video, I take a look at designing a modular template system. This is a group of reusable modules and email patterns, that can be combined to generate different templates. Although not a new approach, I’ve seen a surge of interest in the last few years as everyone grapples with mobile redesigns. The featured examples vary in scope and industry. Adorama started with just ten modules and have gone onto expand it, whereas Monster’s latest is 35. They also had different design challenges, which I go through along with our process, user testing and internal management.

Why and basic process - 0:00
Adorama - 2:07
Monster.com - 16:41
Latest Monster.com system - 29.25
User Testing - 32.47
Internal management - 39:16

 

Grab the deck

I left the video transcript in the deck as notes for those of you who download it. Though the video shows the live templates and provides more context than the slides, so it’s also worth checking out.