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Brien GrantBrand & Business Transformation Executive
03 / Experience + commerce

Target

A digital endcap for whatever was new, next and now at Target.

New at Target digital experience showing a grid of colorful products and weekly themes

Selected work from a formative five-year chapter building the team and experience vision for Target.com while connecting digital merchandising to the in-store guest experience.

Client
Target Corporation
Year
2001–2006
Role
Interactive Creative Director
Disciplines
Experience strategy / Commerce / Digital merchandising / Brand
01

The situation.

Target’s guests wanted a fast way to discover what was new, while the retailer continually needed fresh ways to merchandise new products and ideas.

The broader organizational challenge was to connect a still-siloed digital experience with the physical store and the brand’s established Design for All point of view.

02

The idea.

Create New at Target as a weekly digital endcap: a fast, friendly destination designed to make guests curious enough to return every week and see what was happening at Targét.

New at Target Green with Envy feature for Method products
01

Weekly editorial merchandising

New at Target product discovery screen featuring orange bowls
02

Product discovery

New at Target screen with the headline The Shape of Things Right Now
03

A fresh theme every week

Historic Target.com home page featuring Thomas O’Brien home products
04

Target.com experience system

Historic Target.com home page with a Looking Good home merchandising story
05

Digital merchandising

Target digital brand mood board with textile patterns, products and bullseye marks
06

Extending Design for All into digital

03

What changed.

The experience turned weekly newness into a repeatable editorial and merchandising system. It also created a premium placement opportunity for brands across Target.com and Target stores.

04

The result.

01

Established a recurring destination for weekly product discovery.

02

Created an additional premium merchandising opportunity for participating brands.