Artur.art

Artur.art

Artur.art

Bridging artists and admirers

Bridging artists and admirers

Bridging artists and admirers

through design

through design

through design

UIUX

SYSTEM DESIGN

TOKEN DESIGN

RESPONSIVE WEBSITE

Role

UI/UX Designer

Timeline

Feb 2025 - Present

Skills

Visual Design, Interface Design, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Stakeholder Management

Background

Artur.art offers the Tindart platform, where people swipe through artworks—just like Tinder—to quickly find and buy the pieces they love.

Ahead of Artur.art’s official launch in December 2025, I redesigned Artur.art’s website to improve clarity, consistency, and user engagement. My work included auditing the original site, conducting user testing, and crafting a new design system that increased clarity of purpose and reduced handoff time by 50%.

The Problem

At the start,

Artur.art’s website had major issues:

At the start,Artur.art’s website had major issues:

  • Inconsistent UI components caused confusion and visual noise

  • Navigation lacked hierarchy, making content hard to find

  • Developers spent excessive time restyling components due to missing standards

The original Website

The original Website

The original Website

Solution

Design a clear user flow that guides users through the information hierarchy while also simplifying the structure to speed up development.

I led the UX research and design system overhaul, created prototypes in Figma, and worked with the dev lead to build scalable tokens. The process included:

  1. User Testing – Interviewed art gallery visitors and walked them through the website to test navigation and identify usability issues.

  2. Design System Overhaul – Rebuilt the UI Kit around two main colors and added components to support dark mode.

  3. Scalable Foundations – Built design tokens to ensure visual consistency, flexibility, and easy scaling across the platform.

User Testing

To validate the website and Tindart experience within the time constraint, we leveraged and interviewed visitors to L’Original Art Galery, whose owner also conceptualized Tindart. During the survey, we:


  1. Introduced around 70 visitors to ArturArt site.

  2. Asked whether they understood the services the website offers.

  3. Observed how easily they navigated the site and interacted with Tindart.

Overall:

  • Users struggled to understand the site structure and primary actions.

  • 65% of test users could not find the “Tindart” feature within 10 seconds.

UX Audit and User Flow Analysis

User Flow Analysis

Current User Flow (Problematic) from a user’s perspective:

I tried to match the current flow with user journey, and the curent flow barely match user expectation.

SCENARIO 01

“I want to find art I like”

What users expect

See artworks they like

What actually happens

Get lost with ArturArt services

SCENARIO 02

“I want something custom”

What users expect

AI services helping users get what they want

What actually happens

Get lost with processing the next steps

SCENARIO 03

“I want a print”

What users expect

Choose print option

What actually happens

Users are able to choose print option and check out.

SCENARIO 04

“I want a mural or painting”

What users expect

Users want to work with the artists

What actually happens

Get lost with processing the next steps

Observed problems:

  • High cognitive load

  • Loss of user momentum

  • Unclear value proposition per step

  • Users unsure What do I do next?


Root cause:
The platform is organized by features, not by user intent.

UX Audit

What I analyzed:

  • Navigation structure and page hierarchy

  • Component consistency across pages

  • Typography, spacing, and color usage

  • Accessibility basics (contrast, readability)


Key Findings:

  • Inconsistent components increased cognitive load

  • Navigation lacked clear hierarchy, making content hard to locate

  • Visual styles were manually created, slowing development

  • There is no reusable system for developers to speed up implementation


-> Design Process:

  1. Information Architecture & Wireframing

  2. Design System Creation

  3. Iteration & Usability Testing

  4. Final UI & Handoff

Structure & Wireframing

Based on these insights from user testing, we focused on recreate user flows to create a clear, consistent, and intuitive experience that would guide visitors through the website and make all functionalities immediately understandable

Before

After

What the Wireframe Solved

🧭 Clear Starting Point

✨ Clear Next Steps After AI feature

🔗 One Connected Journey

🎨 Seamless Artist Matching

Rebuild UI Kit

Based on these insights from UI Audit, we focused on overhauling the UI kit to create a clear, consistent, and intuitive experience that would guide visitors through the website and make Tindart’s functionality immediately understandable

Before

After

By nesting the new components into bigger systems, I could build larger components with more complexity without pushing back on time constraints.

Design Tokens

I created semantic and primitive design tokens for major components to minimize miscommunication around spacing, colors, and typography.

Results

As a result of the well-structured design system and focus on building reusable components, we reduced developers’ time on styling tasks by 40% and sped up design handoffs by 50%, creating a more efficient workflow and a cohesive final product.

Before vs. After

After redesigning the design system and tokens, my team began applying it to the website. Here is an example showing improvements in consistency, uniformity, and aesthetics.

Before

Before

  • Steps lack clear visual sequence.

  • Confusing, standalone icons (calculator, cart) that distract.

  • Small text; steps are visually separate.

After

After

  • Rich, artistic background (better branding).

  • Clear sequential numbering (1, 2, 3) added.

  • Icons removed; focus is on sequential text and images.

  • Text is clearer; steps are unified against the background.

Next steps

From now until the website launch, the next steps are finalizing the design system and tokens, prototyping and testing the redesigned pages with users, iterating based on feedback, and collaborating with developers to ensure a seamless launch.

© 2026 ThuyTrangCao. Built with precision.

© 2026 ThuyTrangCao. Built with precision.

© 2026 ThuyTrangCao. Built with precision.

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