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Grocery Match

Speculative concept,
not affiliated with or commissioned by ALDI

Project Type:
2D animation

Produced by:

Anne Driever

 Description

A redesign of an existing social ad format, built not as a single video but as a reusable system — the same core setup powers all three variants you see above. Once new imagery and copy are ready, new variants can be produced in a fraction of the time it would take to animate each one from scratch. Beyond the technical setup, the goal was to make the content more visually impactful and appetite-driven, using real food imagery to trigger hunger and purchase intent — turning a routine grocery discount into something worth stopping for.

Speculative concept, not affiliated with ALDI.

Bevore / After

The original ad was already animated — individual products and their prices moved across the screen one after another, presenting a sequence of offers in quick succession. The redesign keeps the idea of movement but changes what that movement communicates: instead of cycling through multiple products as a list, it builds a single narrative arc around one product at a time — discovery, decision, reward. Real app-like UI (profile and menu icons, bottom navigation) makes the "swipe" premise genuinely believable, rather than looking like an ad pretending to be an app. Swipe cues — an X and a heart — make the interaction legible without any explanatory text. The most impactful shift is the color transition: a calm, neutral blue during the "browsing" moment gives way to a bold orange-red at the "match," creating a real emotional beat that the original's product carousel never had. The pricing card itself stays close to the original — a deliberate choice to preserve ALDI's actual visual identity — but now sits inside a stronger, emotionally charged resolution instead of appearing as just the next item in a sequence.

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Ideation

Early-stage research and analysis, mapped out on a Figma board: a breakdown of the original ad's strengths and weaknesses, market research into comparable social ad formats, and a collection of color codes, imagery, and copy references to define the new direction.

Design Variation
Process

Early iterations tried to bring multiple dishes and information points into a single frame — which quickly became hard to read, especially within the restrictive safe zones of vertical social formats. The solution: focus on one product at a time, enlarge the imagery, and let a quick sequence of images tell the story instead of cramming it into one static composition. This shift ultimately led to the final direction — a fast-paced, swipe-style sequence that pairs hunger with the reveal of the product, almost like a "match."

Safe-Zone

Overview of how key information — product, price, and call-to-action — is kept within the safe zone guidelines for 9:16 vertical video, ensuring the content displays correctly across Instagram, TikTok, and similar platforms without critical elements being cropped or obscured by

platform UI.

Outcome

Beyond the final videos, the project was built as a reusable system rather than a one-off. All three variants share the same underlying compositions, with swappable elements — food imagery, product name, and pricing — controlled through Adobe Essential Graphics via simple drag-and-drop.

Once new food imagery and copy are ready, applying them through the template system takes about 15–30 minutes per variant. Full production — including sourcing new food photography and writing a fitting hook — typically adds another 1–2 hours, depending on the product. This makes the format genuinely scalable for a broader campaign rather than a single execution.

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