Thilini Sanathanee — The UX Designer
Webshop · Wellness

Premium Tea Brand

A wellness webshop rooted in Surinamese heritage.

RoleUI/UX DesignerYear2025Duration4 monthsClientConfidential
Scope
Webshop, wellness calculators, content
Team
1 designer/developer, brand founder
Tools
Figma, Claude, Claude Code, MySQL, WordPress

A premium tea brand of Surinamese origin specializing in women’s wellness needed a webshop that carried both heritage and quiet strength — not the usual pastel wellness aesthetic.

I designed the store around maroon tones with a flat, minimal system on white: the maroon carries strength and origin; the flat treatment keeps it modern and readable.

Rather than lean on a generic newsletter form, I designed a due-date and cycle calculator directly into the site as a lead-generation tool — useful to the visitor, on-brand, and genuinely valuable in exchange for an email address.

Premium Tea Brand

Field Notes

Challenge
Wellness without pastel

The category defaults to soft blush and mint tones. This brand needed to feel grounded, adult, and rooted in a specific place.

Approach
Maroon, minimal, modern

Used maroon as the primary voice, kept the layout flat and generous, and treated Surinamese heritage as content rather than decoration.

Outcome
Utility as lead gen

The cycle calculator became the site’s highest-converting entry point — useful first, sales funnel second.

Homepage
Product detail
Cycle calculator

Outcome

1
custom lead tool
4 mo
concept to launch
1
heritage story
1
end-to-end owner