The Gloss Book Club
Project
Full website design and development
Platform
WordPress
Client
The Gloss Book Club is the sister brand of The Gloss Business Edit: an in-person and online book club that provides a relaxed and casual atmosphere for subscribers to meet friends in new cities, as well as connecting individuals with others who share their love of good books.
Building a New Home
The Gloss Book Club approached us looking for a team that could build a brand new site for their existing subscribers. The new site needed to be a hub for their global community of readers in more than 150 cities around the world.
We used their refreshed branding to inform our design and prototypes and ensure the site flowed perfectly across all pages. Creating an updated identity that complemented their current sister brand was paramount, but we streamlined the site navigation and made sure the user-experience was seamless for their new and existing subscribers.
From Prototypes to Wordpress
We built custom prototypes in Figma to inform the design and functionality of the new website. Our goal was to build a site that was cohesive and perfectly reflected the new goals for the Gloss website.
From the initial prototypes, we further refined our design after the first round of client feedback. We refined our prototypes through 2 versions with the final version of the finished website presented to the client for approval.
An Updated Community Hub
At the heart of The Gloss Book Club is their worldwide community of readers, who needed a subscriber portal and multiple subscription options. The paywall protected membership portal includes exclusive downloadable content, networking opportunities, forums and member-only events.
We integrated the Memberpess plugin to help the Gloss Book Club team easily manage assets and events for their subscribers, as well as house their book club hosts around the world.