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Houzz: a UX case study

How changing “Houzz” can inspire you to change your home style

Aya Khalifa
UX Collective

We are all looking for self-expression and inspiration. We express ourselves through fashion, music, art, and through furniture. Houzz is an interior design app that has thousands of furniture inspirations for users to express their styles.

After talking to friends and interviewing users I found that out of the people I talked to there were 3 main categories:

  1. New-movers furnishing a new house and looking for a wide variety of ideas and services.
  2. Casual-Renewers who upgrade a piece of furniture every once and a while.
  3. Style-lovers, They are always on the lookout for new ideas and like to shop frequently for smaller furniture pieces or decorations.

I personally fall into the last category, I use Houzz because I am passionate about interior design and I love creating spaces and matching furniture, Houzz is my very own Pinterest. However, I noticed some usability issues in the app that hinders inspiration, so I decided to track them down.

Hypothesis

  • Houzz has “Ideabooks” which is a feature that allows users to save photos and ideas in boards to access them and make edits.“Ideabooks” does not have an easy access, my…

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Yan Zhang Thank you Yan!

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Vitaly Dulenko Thank you! what resonated the most with you?

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Thank you for this article. I’m just starting in the field UI/UX and this article truly inspired me. The entire process is very well put and explained.
Recently, I started to design the UI of a App that I had some idea, without doing a enough…

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