FULLY HUMAN SUPPLEMENTS

Fully Human Supplements is a start-up health supplement company specializing in anti-inflammatory products. It was started in 2019 by former Iraq war-veteran, Tim Chrisman. After being honorably discharged because of osteoarthritis, he began venturing into holistic medicine & nutrition. He eventually came up with a highly potent blend of eight anti-inflammatory ingredients that ultimately helped treat his own chronic pain. With that, he started Fully Human Supplements in mid 2019.

Upon engaging with Santoro Design, Fully Human Supplements required a brand new start. With a bootstrapped visual brand and e-commerce website put together, they required a new brand identity and website that would captivate the right customers and up sales margins.

We honed in on two specific customer communities: the Wellness-Challenged and the Wellness-Inspired. The Wellness-Inspired communities buy supplements because they strive to live generally healthy and balanced lifestyles. The Wellness-Challenged communities buy supplements because they live with chronic illness and pain stemming from chronic inflammation, and have tried other conventional means with no luck. Furthermore, we decided to go after Gen X’ers because of their statistically high buying power, and aspirations for living healthy lifestyles.

Extensive workshops and exercises during Discovery Phase gave us more insights into their products, the highly potent ingredients they use, and how they fight off chronic inflammatory pain. We positioned Fully Human Supplements as the “inflammation specialist” supplement brand, boldly standing amongst many other generalist brands. 

Design began with stylescape boards because they allowed us to establish a sense of what the brand direction could be, while considering the customer base more closely. The chosen look-and-feel direction pushed a cleaner, more established vernacular with high contrast colors, geometric shapes and tight grid structures. The chosen logomark possessed a simplistic and “human” typographic metaphor created by the stem and arm of the “F” and the “eye” cross-bar. 

The square proportions of the mark allowed us to extrapolate a series of grid structures, and other pieces of graphic language. From hard shadows on text call-outs, to icon design, as well as padding around design elements. Additionally, arrays of different geometric shapes were developed as overlaid visual accents to images and text. As a result, these shapes help to create more rhythm within the heavily gridded design, while also breaking it in tasteful ways.

With their flagship product in stock, and another in development, the product branding and package design system was created to be simple and scalable for future products. We utilized monochromatic color palettes because they allowed for clean, yet distinctive branding across all products within the system. This system was extrapolated on to a simple label and mailer box design.

The website had two main goals: act as an effective brand touchpoint for prospects to learn about the company, and compel new conversions. Because the previous website had a broken architecture, we created a new site-map for the website with a big focus on UX content structure and copywriting. Pages like “What is Inflammation?” and their blog, “The Inflammation Room,” further instilled that inflammation expert positioning.

We found many opportunities to create delight across the website. On each product PDP, we created on-scroll timelines detailing what customers could expect while taking certain supplements. Tab systems for ingredients revealed descriptions that linked to specific articles in “The Inflammation Room.” While we wanted to make the buying experience simple and efficient, it was important that our expertise was laid bare.

View the finished website here.

Since launching the website in October 2020, Santoro Design has been working alongside Fully Human Supplements on new branding & marketing initiatives. As this is a retainer agreement, this case study will continue to be updated.