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Modenus

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Modenus is a true social networking platform for interior designers, consumers and manufacturers. True in the sense that the community containing pro and consumer forums, blogs, mood board apps and product reviews is at the center of the site that features a manufacturer catalog with preference based search and a visually inspired project manager for designers, which is a great step above “save to favorites” often found on comparable design sites.

Modenus will offer the following features:

For everyone:

• A central hub of forums, blogs and product reviews to inform and inspire
• A Mood board app to create and save artistic compilations of products from the Modenus catalog and bookmarked sites.
• A manufacturer’s catalog that delivers relevant results based on the user’s visual style preferences
• A user dashboard that provides at a glance information on important design topics and newsfeed updates from manufacturers the user has requested
• Find a designer feature
• A clean, well designed UI without banners for maximum site retention

For trade professionals:

• Trade pricing and resources at Manufacturer discretion
• Visually inspired project manager with online team collaboration
• Pro forums to interact with peers without consumers present

For manufacturers:

• dashboard to edit/add products, view product stats and create newsfeeds
• free public profile
• affordable listing options
• forum monitoring that alerts manufacturers of their product being mentioned

Modenus was launched as a blog in March 2010 to establish a presence in the design community. Full launch of the site’s first full beta version was in August 2010. Since then the site has shown continuous growth with over 2000 registered design professionals, traffic near 15,000 visits per month with over 50,000 pageviews per month. The site is promoted heavily through it’s social media community via Twitter and Facebook.

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Above: Main page
Uploaded: 5/5/10

Above: User Dashboard - Trade
Uploaded: 5/7/10

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