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Automotive · Campaign experience

Hyundai · Smaht Pahk

Turning a Super Bowl campaign into a focused, playful shopping experience.

My role
UX & interaction design
Project context
Innocean USA · Two-week campaign timeline
Campaign context
The broader campaign earned industry awards and reported a 229% increase in model search volume. Campaign results reflect combined media and marketing activity. They are not attributable to the website interaction alone.

01 / Overview

The problem and my contribution.

The challenge

The team had two weeks, including development, to connect the Smaht Pahk campaign with Hyundai’s existing shopping journey.

How I worked with the team

Mapped campaign entry points with teams at Innocean and worked with stakeholders and developers. Resource constraints expanded my role into interaction and product design.

02 / Design decisions

The decisions behind the experience.

01

Focus effort on the destination

The homepage acted as a concise route to the Sonata page, where the deeper campaign interaction lived.

02

Make the joke optional

An English/Boston content switch let visitors explore the campaign while keeping product information understandable.

03

Design for visitors with different context

The experience needed to work for people who had seen the TV spot and people arriving without that background.

03 / The work

From the structure to the interaction.

Original project artifacts documenting the design work.

The wicked smaht award-winning Super Bowl campaign
Userflow of touchpoints for the campaign
Example of the interaction to change the page content to the Boston way.




Some of the best tweets about our solution we created

04 / Outcome

Part of a wider campaign.

The broader campaign earned industry awards and reported a 229% increase in model search volume.

Campaign results in context
Campaign results reflect combined media and marketing activity. They are not attributable to the website interaction alone.
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