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Gamalak

Gamalak sells skincare, and its customers arrive almost entirely on a phone — mid-scroll, often mid-routine research. So the store was designed mobile-first from the very first frame: every template drawn for a small screen before it was ever stretched to a desktop one, not the usual habit of designing wide and shrinking down later.

Skincare is bought by concern and skin type as much as by product name, so browsing leans on that — product photography that shows texture and finish, and a path from "what does my skin need" to checkout that stays short on a thumb-sized screen. Cart and checkout carry the same restraint, since a slow last step is where mobile shoppers drop off.

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Gamalak skincare and beauty-products store designed by Aya Elfeky
A mobile-first template, drawn at phone width before it was ever stretched to desktop.
Outcome

What the design delivers

The decisions that carry this project.

Mobile first, for real

Designed on the phone, where nearly every customer arrives.

A thumb-friendly path

From “what does my skin need” to checkout in a few taps.

Considered, not clinical

A calm, expert tone that suits the category.

What you get

A store that works with one thumb

Mobile is not an afterthought here — it's the first draft. These three pieces are what that discipline produces.

Mobile-first templates

Every screen was drawn at phone width first and proven there, then scaled up to desktop — never the other way round.

Browsing by skin concern

Category and product pages lean on how skincare actually gets chosen — by concern and skin type, not just a product name.

Full screens, edge cases included

The complete desktop and mobile set, plus the empty and error states a real store runs into.

How it runs

Designed small first, proven there, then scaled up

The mobile screen is the primary canvas here, not a shrunk copy of the desktop one.

Discovery

A look at how Gamalak's customers actually shop — almost all of them on a phone, often comparing a routine rather than a single product.

Mobile wireframes

Every template is laid out at phone width first, where thumb reach and load time set the real constraints.

Prototyping & testing

Screens are checked one-handed, scrolling included, before anything is scaled up to a desktop layout.

Visual design & handover

The desktop version is built from the proven mobile one, then the full set — desktop and mobile — is handed over.

At a glance

Project details

Discipline
Store Design
Scope
Homepage, category and collection pages, product page, cart and checkout
Deliverables
Full storefront screen set for desktop and mobile, including empty and error states
Tools used
Figma · Photoshop

Selling to a mostly-mobile audience of your own? See the E-commerce Store Design service.

Questions

Before we design mobile-first

Why design mobile-first instead of adapting a desktop layout down?
“Mobile-first from the very first frame, because that is how almost everyone arrives at a beauty store.” Nearly every Gamalak customer arrives on a phone, so every template was drawn at phone width first and proven there — thumb reach, load time, one-handed scrolling — before it was ever stretched to a desktop layout. Building it the other way round tends to leave the mobile version feeling like a shrunk-down afterthought.
What's included in a store design like this?
The full storefront screen set for desktop and mobile — homepage, category and collection pages, product page, cart and checkout — plus the empty and error states a real store runs into.
Does browsing by skin concern work for other beauty or wellness stores?
Yes. Skincare and beauty products are usually chosen by concern and skin type before a shopper knows the product name, so category and product pages that lean on that — not just a name-based catalogue — tend to shorten the path to checkout for any store in the same space.

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