When there's nothing there yet, I design what comes next.

Bringing Camicado's In-Store
Experience to Digital

Company

Work&Co

Position

Senior Designer

Industry

E-commerce

Platform

Web

Camicado is Brazil’s largest home and décor retailer. In its physical stores, sales associates do more than sell. They guide. They are deeply trained in products, brands, and customer profiles. When someone walks into a Camicado store, there is always someone nearby who can understand what they like to cook, who they are buying a gift for, or why one particular pan is different from the ten others sitting next to it.

E-commerce never had that. It is not that the website lost this role over time. It simply never had it, because a website cannot stop someone in the aisle and ask what they are looking for.

The challenge was never to recover an experience that digital had lost. It was to build, from scratch, a digital equivalent of something that had always existed only in the physical store.

Our answer was to create thematic and brand pages. Coffee, barbecue, wine, baking, appetizers, bakery, happy hour, beer. Each became a destination of its own, bringing together curated products from different categories around a specific occasion or use case.

The same approach applied to premium brands such as KitchenAid, Le Creuset, Joseph Joseph, and Zwilling, each with its own dedicated space within the website.

Each brand page follows the logic of a showroom, not a catalog. The hero shows the product in use before presenting it on its own. A navigation carousel organizes products by function within that specific brand universe.

An editorial section in the middle of the page introduces a less obvious accessory or use case, such as KitchenAid’s Pasta Press, using photography and video to show the pasta being made.

Only after that does the full product grid appear.

What we built was less about designing fifteen different pages and more about creating a modular system: hero, category navigation, partner brand spotlight, editorial highlight, and product grid. Each category or brand could adapt the palette, imagery, and curation within the same structure. This gave the entire site consistency without requiring a new design from scratch for every page.

The system also knew when not every module was necessary. More transactional categories, such as cookware, did not need the same level of storytelling as coffee or an imported brand like Joseph Joseph. In those cases, the editorial section gave way to a direct conversion module: “Buy Together,” featuring complementary product recommendations and bundle discounts.

The new website launched after a year-long partnership between Work & Co and Camicado’s internal team. The business impact showed up quickly: a 10% increase in average order value within the first six months after launch, 2x digital revenue in Q3 2023 compared with the same period the year before, and a 33% increase in digital sales as a share of total revenue over the same period.

The second and third figures cannot be attributed to the website redesign alone. They also reflect improvements to the app, WhatsApp, and affiliate channels that followed. But they were all part of the same broader digital transformation that the new website helped kick-start.