RIPPLE BRAND DESIGN SYSTEM

When Voron joined Ripple in 2019, he quickly realized that the Ripple brand, well recognized globally in the crypto space, was diverging from the intended master brand strategy that was developed in 2015. Through an audit that his team performed of all of the customer and consumer touch-points, it became clear to him and the senior leaders that the five verticals of the company needed a strategy to realign. Ripple has valued the importance of brand and design since their inception in 2012. Although they had always strove to maintain a cohesive and engaging experience across every touch point, over time, points of view of the general managers of the different business units inadvertently shifted the look and feel of customer experiences. The look and feel of the customer experiences become more aligned around the org structure versus holistic customer experience strategy.

Great creative starts with insightful, clear strategy. Whether working with internal marketing teams or external agencies, Voron's design team at Ripple realized they needed a single briefing document for each brand that would ensure consistent communications. Voron’s team built a process referred to as creative clarity briefs to articulate the creative strategy on each platform brand with a “red thread” from marketing objectives through insight and core creative idea to touchpoint mapping, messaging, and creative execution.

Voron's multidisciplinary design team at Ripple found  that creating these systems brought teams together around a single idea and execution style, and the strategies they map out drove more cohesive and considered creative work.  These systems also provide a readymade capture of all the essentials for any external agency we work with, so any extensions of the internal design team would also have the knowledge they need to drive a coherent strategy.

The design system has provided Ripple's marketing and product designers with the guidance needed to implement the overall look and feel of the brand. In system, along with the distinguishing elements that apply to the new platform brands that were developed under Voron’s leadership, was launched in 2021. One can also find Voice Principles and Content Strategy guidance for developing product and marketing content within Ripple's first design system. Maintaining consistency and showing the brand in its best light in every application was a key factor in achieving the goal of making Ripple brand an iconic one. The new Brand Design System was leveraged for the redesign of ripple.com that was launched in 2022. It also guided the redesign of XRP.org in 2021. 

Ripple’s first Brand Design System and Brand Strategy was crafted and executed in less than 18 months by the internal design team without any support from external agencies.

Dolby Vision “Reveal More” Campaign Assets

The majority of Dolby’s revenue comes from licensing audio and imaging technologies to global consumer electronic brands. These technologies enable content to be delivered to consumers from devices that produce the most immersive and lifelike cinematic & episodic experiences. Dolby’s imaging technology, Dolby Vision, empowers televisions, tablets, PCs and phones to deliver images and visual stories to consumers that have the highest contrast ratios, the highest amount of brightness and colors in the industry.

Given the importance of the B2B licensing business to Dolby’s bottom line, Voron’s team worked hard to create co-branded B2C consumer advertising and marketing content campaigns that their B2B partners could leverage directly to differentiate their product offerings and branded imaging features at the point of sale.

Voron’s team successfully helped Dolby bring new ideas and creative thinking to the market in the form of the Dolby Vision ‘Reveal More’ Campaign — this was the core creative idea that was developed for 2019. The essence of the reveal more campaign is that all assets from social to digital to embedded films in the products of Dolby’s B2B partners should “reveal more” in terms of the storytelling and the tangible ability of a consumer being able to see “more” vivid colors or see “more” of the stories filmed in extremely bright or dark environments.

To bring to life the intelligence the Dolby Vision, his team created an innovative set of graphic, video and interactive digital materials to describe the value that the Dolby Vision brand delivers to persuade consumers to purchase electronic equipment that contain Dolby technologies. Voron’s team also created the first Dolby ”Visonairies” campaign which seeks out and celebrates content producers and story tellers who work at the intersection of art and science.

BRAND strategy

The Brand Design Strategy function that Voron built at Ripple has served as the touchstone for all creative inspiration and decision making for the brand since early 2020. During his tenure at the company, the team rebranded all products and services for both business groups, RippleX and RippleNet. In addition, his team updated the corporate mission statement and corporate position content. Ripple Vision is “The Internet of Value: Enable the world to move value like information moves today. Their Mission is “Enable payments everywhere, every way for everyone.” Ripple’s Positioning is “For financial services companies, and the communities who interact with them, Ripple is the visionary builder in financial services that delivers large-scale, high-performance solutions to global communities so our partners excel in an improved financial system that supports a better, more inclusive world."

For creative executions, Voron’s team redefined how the company communicated so that were perceived as both an experienced and trusted partner in the crypto technology space, with the vision needed to imagine and build the solutions required in a fast-changing landscape.To demonstrate this, his brand stratetgy team developed the Core Creative Idea of “Vision in Action” to guide all future creative, regardless of medium. The duality of this Core Creative Idea plays on the notion that one element inspires another, and something better emerges. One element can cause the other, direct the other, flow through the other, or cycle with the other. 

Voron’s brand strategy team also developed three new Brand Character traits that brought these ideas to life:

Visionary: A sweeping and decades-deep view of the financial landscape, with the insight, commitment and expertise required in every relevant area for long-term success. 

Pragmatic Efficiency: Oriented within real-world constraints and a mindset of leveraging what works, improving what can be made better, and replacing what is broken.

Optimistic: A positive, rallying belief in Ripple's collective ability to achieve a better future that cuts through cynicism, complacency and friction to attract partners and inspire progress. 

Creative clarity briefs

Great creative starts with insightful, clear strategy. Whether working with internal marketing teams or external agencies, we needed a single briefing document for each brand that would ensure consistent communications.

Voron’s team built a process referred to as creative clarity briefs to articulate the creative strategy on each platform brand with a “red thread” from marketing objectives through insight and core creative idea to touchpoint mapping, messaging, and creative execution.

His team  found  that creating these documents brings  teams together around a single idea and execution style, and the strategies they map out have started to drive more cohesive and considered creative work.  They also provide a readymade capture of all the essentials for any external agency we work with, so any extensions of our teams also have the knowledge they need to drive a coherent strategy.