Behind the Scenes on Crafting Unique Brand Identities for Independent Business Owners

Established our operations and implemented templates to speed up our design processes together with our brand and visual designer.

2/4/20242 min read

Behind the Scenes on Crafting Unique Brand Identities for Independent Business Owners

Project overview

  • Brand identity design

  • Visual design

  • Solopreneurs

Deliverables

  • Brand identity activity template

  • Brand identity for solopreneurs

Role

  • Brand identity designer and project lead - I have established our operations and implemented templates to speed up our design processes.

  • Worked alongside our brand and visual designers

Design approach and process

Visual identity direction activity

  • Prospect’s LinkedIn profile audit

  • Understanding the prospect’s niche and target market

Design exploration and mood boarding

  • Conceptualizing

  • Content copy creation

  • Content design LinkedIn Assets

Visual brand identity direction activity template

The "Visual Identity Direction Activity Template" is a tool designed to guide the development of a project's visual identity.

It serves as a structured framework to explore and define the aesthetic elements that will represent the project visually.

This includes considerations like color schemes, typography, imagery, and overall design style. The template helps ensure that the visual identity is cohesive, aligns with the project's goals, and resonates with the intended audience.

Challenges

Limited access to target customers, as only product owners can directly engage them.

Initiating sprints without customer interaction for brand development.

Time limitations in creating a strong brand identity.

Work around

To overcome these obstacles, we implement design audits. This includes analyzing solopreneurs' social media activities beyond LinkedIn.

By observing their posting habits and content, we gain insights to enhance their personal brand identity, compensating for the direct feedback we lack.

Sample work

Please note that all of this work is “speculation work” since we were not able to deploy, interview, and interact with these solopreneurs.

Please note: In compliance with the Non-Disclosure Agreement terms set forth by the company, I am limited to displaying only selected screens from this project. Confidentiality and adherence to the NDA terms are strictly maintained.

Feel free to reach out!

I am available for a FREE online 1-1 mentorship.

Go to www.adplist.org/mentors/estella to book a 30-minute session with me.

I am also open to event speaking engagements with the following topics:

  • UX Design

  • Typography

  • Design System

  • Design Management

  • Brand Identity Design

  • Career Progression in Design

  • Women Empowerment topics

Inquire about speaking availability by sending me a message on LinkedIn.