Mobile UX/UI / 2020

Fenty Beauty

Mobile UX/UI Strategy

A brand-driven mobile experience that makes finding your shade effortless, pairing intuitive UX with unmistakably Fenty storytelling.

Fenty Beauty product hero
Client
Fenty Beauty
Focus
Mobile UX/UI + Visual Design
Role
UX/UI Design • Visual Design • Creative Strategy • Prototyping
Output
Shade Quiz • Get the Look • PDP System • Prototypes

02 / Challenge

Challenge

Fenty already owned a bold, inclusive voice. The task was extending it into a mobile-native journey that felt personal, shoppable, and educational rather than transactional.

Opportunity

Complexion discovery is where beauty shoppers stall. The opportunity was to make finding a match feel like guidance from the brand, filtering by skin goals instead of product specs so no answer ever becomes a dead end.

My Role

Designed the UX/UI, visual design, and creative strategy end-to-end, translating Rihanna's conversational tone into flows, an inclusive visual system, and interactive prototypes. What began as a self-directed concept grew into a client engagement with Fenty Beauty.

03 / Strategy

Experience Strategy

The experience leads with skin goals, keeps the brand voice in the microcopy, and treats inclusivity as a design principle rather than a marketing claim.

Core IdeaMobile Experience
01Skin-Goal First
02Inclusive by Design
03Guided, Not Tested
04Editorial Commerce
05Accessible UI
06Personalized Results

04 / Visual Language

Visual Language

An inclusive, accessible language: warm complexion-inspired tones held against high-contrast black and white, set in a clean Helvetica system that keeps the brand bold and legible.

PrimaryNude Pink
#C6AAA4
PrimaryNatural
#E8C0A8
SecondaryBlack
#000000
SecondaryWhite
#FFFFFF
DisplayAaHelvetica Bold
UI / BodyAaHelvetica Regular
VoiceAaConversational Microcopy

Rationale

Complexion-inspired tones make the palette feel like the customer, while ADA-compliant contrast keeps typography legible. One clean type system does the structural work so Fenty's voice can lead in the copy.

05 / Shade Quiz

Shade Quiz Experience

The quiz leads with how skin behaves, undertone checked against wrist veins, then a selfie to fine-tune, so an uncertain answer still moves the journey forward.

Fenty Beauty shade quiz flow

Undertone Visual Selector

An inclusive skin-model reference guides match accuracy and keeps the language visual, not clinical.

Fenty Beauty undertone visual selector grid

Beyond the Quiz

Get the Look

The shade logic extends onto real models — tap a model to see exactly what she's wearing, then shop her match.

Fenty Beauty Get the Look — tap a model to reveal her shade match and shop it

How It Works

Tap a model and the magnetic Fentystick honeycomb icons glow in the upper corner, then pin to each part of her face — brows, eyes, concealer, blush, lips, contour — so nothing is a guess. Tap one, say the foundation, and its exact shade surfaces (Pro Filt'r 330) with details and add-to-bag, turning "she looks like me" into a shoppable match.

06 / Prototypes

Interactive Prototypes

Three flows show the refined mobile UX in motion — from first impression, into the Fenty Finder quiz, through to results that are easy to act on.

Fenty Beauty homepage prototype flow
HomepageSets tone and invites discovery through product-led storytelling.
Fenty Beauty Fenty Finder prototype flow
Fenty FinderA clear CTA and minimal UI guide the user into the quiz.
Fenty Beauty shade finder prototype flow
Shade FinderSequential, visual-driven prompts mirror natural user logic.

07 / Outcome

Outcome

A mobile-first experience that does not just look like Fenty, but feels like Fenty, turning emotion into conversion while honoring inclusivity and scale.

Brand-True UX

Extended Rihanna's voice into flows, microcopy, and interactions instead of surface styling.

Inclusive by Default

Skin-goal logic and diverse references made match accuracy feel personal to every user.

Guided to Convert

Removing dead ends turned discovery into a confident, shoppable decision.

Reflection

This project reinforced how much a strong identity can direct behavior, not just decorate it. By centering education, inclusivity, and confidence in the mobile experience, I learned to let brand values guide the flow itself, translating a bold, empowering voice into a journey that feels personal, expressive, and scalable for mobile-first audiences.