Rokista is an alternative marketing and e-commerce site, designed to connect customer to supplier in a way that cuts out the loud and obnoxious methods marketing uses in modern media

About The Client

About The Client

The goal of the alternative marketing and e-commerce platform Rokista is to connect consumer and supplier without using the noisy and intrusive techniques that marketing often use in today's media. Their aim is to provide a platform that enables customers to reach out to these suppliers with clear, precise information, seeking specific products that client businesses stock.

 

The Problem

The Problem

The core theme for this website build was to create a marketplace which eliminates the need for businesses to reach out to customers. Instead the customer shows interest in an item, thereafter the business reaches out to the customer and from there discuss the purchase particulars. 

The objectives of the product revolved predominantly around the simplification of the online marketplace experience for users and businesses. In doing this, the Rokista team wanted to achieve 3 essential objectives: 

  • Provide a distilled outlook on the buyer/seller relationship.
  • Don’t tie the user down with extra information and distractions.
  • Maintain a functionality first approach.
The Solution

The Solution

In order to achieve this, they undertook a custom discovery and design programme with Arch, exploring how the product would emerge and contend against the established landscape of businesses in this area. 

We created a series of user personas from both sides of the user journey, developing in depth characters with goals and requirements for the platform on which functionality could begin to be assigned. 

There are always functionality that become key to achieving a functioning product typology, however, at Arch we like to explore the extended possibilities of the platforms we work on. To this end, we refined and proposed user functionality to ensure core objectives of simplicity and a quieting of the marketplace landscape were articulated. 

This saw us create an intuitive design system that shaped not only elements such as colour schemes and font guidelines but also the design of complete features within the website.

 

Rokista: From the Designers

Rokista: From the Designers

"For this project, we began by breaking down the project scope and conducting research into existing products. We then started sketching out ideas and created low fidelity wireframes for both desktop and mobile resolutions based on the data gathered and the ideas I'd sketched. After getting feedback and making necessary changes, we began developing higher fidelity prototypes, again for both desktop and mobile resolutions. To streamline the design process, we also created a components library which included navigation, buttons, cards, inputs and dropdowns etc. along with a style guide which included the logo, colour palette, typography, iconography, grid, and spacing etc. which would ensure visual consistency throughout."  Howard Laws UI/UX Designer at Arch

 

Rokista Features

Rokista Features

  • Fully mobile responsive.
  • Extensive categorisation and keyword matching.
  • Dual buyer and seller user profiles. 
  • Geolocation for "distance to" functionality.
  • Flagging and reporting functionality for breaches of platform guidelines.
  • "See all searches" administrative functionality for sellers.
  • Payment gateway integration.
  • React Web frontend
  • Laravel backend

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