Deals optimization

Designing an optimal in app deal’s experience to help customers discover relevant deals.

My role:

  • Lead Product Designer

  • Product vision and thinking

  • Designed the entire deals flow for the mobile app

Team:

  • Product Manager

  • Research Team

  • Payments Team

  • Web Team

  • iOS Developers

  • Backend engineers

  • Data scientists

  • Marketing

  • Brand Designer

  • Visual Designer

  • XF Team

 

About the project

We hypothesize that optimizing the design, layout, and content of the deals page will improve user engagement, increase deal discovery, and boost overall satisfaction with the deals feature.

The challenge

Currently, ShopRunner mobile app users face difficulties in quickly finding relevant and attractive deals on the existing deals page, resulting in a less efficient shopping experience. ShopRunner customers need a more engaging way to easily discover and access personalized deals that align with their preferences, enhancing their overall shopping experience.

Goals

How do we create a differentiated and thrilling experience that inspires users to discover new and relevant deals on the ShopRunner app?

Key Product Design Principles

Full product cycle

 

Confidence

Give users confidence to find relevant deals through engaging, intuitive discovery methods.

 

Convenience

Help users find deals in one place.

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Context

Call out when a deal is a rare or good relative to users past offers.

Competitive Analysis

Things we’re doing well

Deals are easy to find in the ShopRunner experience. We provide dedicated navigation and a page for shoppers to easily discover new deals and savings.

On web, we have member exclusive deals. This offers member specific benefits and also helps to drive our membership signup and signins.

Areas to improve

We can improve in the richness of deals detail and context we offer our shoppers in their journey. Exclusions, deals, terms are all important to purchase decision making and reduce the occurrence of returns or a poor user experience.

Additionally, we can make finding deals easier through search functionality. This is especially ideal for shoppers who buy from the same brands or have something specific in mind.

Notable things competitors are doing

Transition pages ease users in the redirect to retailers. It also communicates the partnership to retailers, whereas SR is the hub to search.

Browser shopping assistant; deals, terms, conditions that stitches the shopping experience together

Wide array of deals filters to accommodate all types of deal hunting

Diverse curation of deals to improve discovery

 

Define

Affinity Mapping

Went wide, and beyond the scope of web: 2 rounds of refinement, 1 from cross functional teams (partner marketing, product, design, engineering, product marketing) and again with just the pod.

 

Customer Needs

What are our user problems?

 

Customer Journey

Created a user journey map to 1) build empathy for our shoppers, 2) visualize the deals discovery experience & 3) identify opportunities and pain points

Opportunity


Arrived at a single, focused opportunity to enhance the deals page:

How might we create a deals page that delivers a dynamic, context-rich experience while balancing convenience, urgency, and relevance?