Holganix

A clearer path from soil biology to the benefits people care about.

When
2025
Role
UX architecture, wireframes and interaction design
Team
With LUDWIG+; final visual design by a collaborating designer
Output
Website flows, R0 to R5 wireframes and interaction intent
The implemented Turf page retains the growing roots and surrounding benefit labels. Final visual design by a collaborating designer. Captured September 9, 2026. Product claims belong to Holganix.
UX, wireframes and interaction intent by Jack. Final visual design by a collaborating designer.
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RecordedThe implemented Turf page retains the growing roots and surrounding benefit labels. Final visual design by a collaborating designer. Captured September 9, 2026. Product claims belong to Holganix.

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made during the project and shown as it was
Recorded
captured from a real product or process on a stated date

One company.
Different reasons to care.

The visible change is in the order of the argument: a visitor first gets a reason to care, then a path into the information relevant to them.

Holganix works with soil biology, but visitors arrive with different questions. A farmer considering crop performance and a turf professional maintaining a landscape need distinct routes into the same underlying product story.

My work was to shape those routes: what a visitor encounters first, how the explanation develops, and when to move from the shared story into information specific to their work.

I developed the UX architecture, wireframes and interaction direction. A collaborating designer created the final visual design. The implemented website shown here is the result of that collaboration.

01 · Audience flows

Begin with the visitor's route.

Before laying out individual pages, I mapped the paths through the site. The flow work established how visitors could enter through an audience, learn about the product and process, find supporting stories, and reach the next useful action.

The homepage needed to connect those paths without trying to answer every audience's questions at once. Audience pages could then go deeper into the benefits, evidence and practical information relevant to a particular visitor.

Farmer route detail: the agriculture landing page leads to a decision, with a Knowledge Hub loop when more evidence is needed, or a route toward product and representative pages
HistoricalFarmer decision detail, cropped from the original flow map. Visitors who need more information loop through the Knowledge Hub before returning to the main route. Open full flow map

02 · R0 to R1

R0 gave me a direction to reconsider.

The initial R0 direction was less successful. Client feedback on R0 was that its sections bled together and lacked cohesion: the page needed more distinction from section to section and a clearer visual hierarchy.

I returned to the page structure, explored alternatives in sketches, and developed a new wireframe sequence. That reset is part of the work, not a step to skip over.

R0 led with “Grow Possible,” two immediate audience choices, and a grid of six benefits. R1 kept the headline but changed what followed: a video-led introduction, the problem of damaged soil, an hourglass explanation, and a closer look at the microorganisms. The audience routes arrived after that shared explanation, so a visitor gets a way to understand the product before choosing a path.

R0

Initial direction
R0 homepage wireframe. A headline, immediate audience choices, then a grid of benefits.
HistoricalA headline, immediate audience choices, then a grid of benefits. Open R0 homepage

R1

Reworked sequence
R1 homepage wireframe. A video-led introduction begins a longer explanation of the soil and the product.
HistoricalA video-led introduction begins a longer explanation of the soil and the product. Open R1 homepage

03 · Sketch to website

Follow one idea through the revisions.

The Turf page provides a direct thread from the original drawing to the implemented website. In the sketch, a strip of growing roots gives the soil story a visual structure. Notes around it explore benefit cards and how they could reveal more information.

R1 turns that drawing into a wireframe section. R5 keeps the root-growth illustration and makes the surrounding benefits more specific. On the implemented page, the same arrangement is visible in the finished colors, typography and illustration treatment.

Not every sketched interaction or section had to survive. The value of the sketch was that it made the relationships concrete enough to discuss and revise before the final visual design.

Compare the four Turf stages
Implemented Holganix Turf page hero with aerial golf-course photography and the headline Better turf from the ground up
RecordedThe finished Turf entrance, captured from the public website September 9, 2026. The live headline and imagery have developed beyond the wireframe. Final visual design by a collaborating designer. Visit the Turf page

04 · The homepage

Give the explanation something to hold onto.

The revisions continued from R1 through R5. The later homepage combines several kinds of explanation: an introductory film, soil restoration, a close look at microorganisms, audience routes, the Living Network and testimonials.

For the microorganism section, the wireframe pairs a handful of soil with labels and a short explanation. It connects an unfamiliar biological process to something tangible. The implemented website develops that direction through photography and scrolling behavior.

This is where the distinction between my contribution and the visual designer's work matters. I established the content relationships and interaction intent; the finished visual expression came through the collaboration.

R5 homepage: a handful of soil makes the microorganism explanation concrete. Labels identify the organisms, while a short explanation and three supporting points provide context.
HistoricalR5 homepage: a handful of soil makes the microorganism explanation concrete. Labels identify the organisms, while a short explanation and three supporting points provide context. Open full artifact

05 · Interaction

One hourglass.
A changing explanation.

The R5 homepage uses one visual anchor while the message changes. The real website carries that idea into a scrolling sequence, with the hourglass, particles and backgrounds responding as the visitor moves through the story.

R5 homepage wireframe: The explanation moves from restoring soil to the practical benefits for farmers.
HistoricalThe explanation moves from restoring soil to the practical benefits for farmers. R5 wireframe state.

Watch the implemented sequence.

RecordedFrom the live website · 20 seconds

An uninterrupted recording of the real homepage, captured September 9, 2026. The viewport is cropped around the interaction; playback runs at the recorded speed. Final visual design by a collaborating designer. Use the video controls to play, pause or seek.

06 · Farmer journey

Put the audience's evidence closer to the start.

The audience work continued beyond the homepage. In R0, the agriculture page moves from a product introduction into a three-step process, performance metrics and an ROI calculator before reaching farmer stories and product choices.

R5 leads with a farmer case study and testimonials, then develops the story through more examples, data, and product rates and application guidance. The revised sequence brings other farmers' experience nearer to the beginning and keeps practical detail available for a visitor ready to go further.

These artifacts show the wireframe decisions at those rounds. The live farmer page has continued to evolve, including Farm Possible and ROI content, so the case study does not treat every later product choice as a direct copy of R5.

R0

Page opening
R0 agriculture: product introduction and process come first.
HistoricalR0 agriculture: product introduction and process come first. Open full R0 page

R5

Page opening
R5 farmers: a case study and testimonials lead into the deeper explanation.
HistoricalR5 farmers: a case study and testimonials lead into the deeper explanation. Open full R5 page

07 · Handoff

A structure the visual design could build on.

The finished Turf benefits section makes that handoff visible. Alternating rows, the sequence of claims and a repeated connection across the page were present in the wireframes. The live design gives those relationships a physical texture through grass, soil, color and typography.

Implemented Turf benefits section with alternating grass and soil rows, matching the structure of the R5 wireframe
RecordedImplemented visual design by a collaborating designer. Public website, September 9, 2026. The product claims shown belong to Holganix. Inspect the R5 wireframe

The project changed course after its first direction. Working back through sketches and wireframes made the visitor journeys, content hierarchy and interaction ideas more resolved, and created a clearer foundation for the final design.