Deliverables

UI & UX

Design System

Motion Principles

Art Direction

Year

2025

New Balance aims to be the world’s leading premium performance brand, crafting the highest-quality sports products for athletes and fans at every level. Yet its digital storefront did not reflect this ambition or the brand’s deep performance heritage.

New Balance aims to be the world’s leading premium performance brand, crafting the highest-quality sports products for athletes and fans at every level. Yet its digital storefront did not reflect this ambition or the brand’s deep performance heritage.

Selected as part of a cross-Atlantic team spanning the US and UK, I worked with the ECD and CD to define the brand expression, to design and delivery.

Our challenge was to evolve the website into a brand-led retail platform, piloting a new premium direction during a key brand moment: New Balance’s partnership with the Australian Open without compromising commercial performance.

Team

Ali Barr

David Amorim

David Savage

Ed Davies

Joao Escobar

John Ferguson

Jorik Houweling

Kaleeta McDade

Katie Townsend

Katrina Scott

Kelly Macdowell

Logan Hassig

Marco Jeffery

Sarah Klein

Seth Waterman

Stu Haury

Yvonne Michaelides

Zeel Jethwa

CREATIVE TERRITORY

A design direction inspired by the craft, materiality, framing, texture and modular zones of their flagship stores across the world.


Tactile Elegance, is a creative territory inspired by our visit to the Oxford Street flagship store.


That inspiration shaped our approach: building a connected visual language from the physical store to the digital experience, translating cues and interactions from in-store into the digital experience.

Simple, modular layouts with minimal design. Show don’t tell.

Simple, modular layouts with minimal design. Show don’t tell.