Improve Onboarding Experience

Improve Onboarding Experience

Improve Onboarding Experience

User Research, UX/UI, Service Design, UX Strategy

Made significant improvements to over 2.2 million new users 1st time experience using HelloFresh ultimately resulting in increasing the recurring customer count from 1.45 million to 7 million.

Overview

Overview

HelloFresh is the #1 meal kit subscription service company. Every week the customer selects their meals of choice and receives their delivery with pre-measured ingredients ready to be cooked.

As important as the action of selecting the users meals for the week is, the user is often left confused and frustrated, not knowing whether or not they have completed their meal selection or what the final price is.

My responsibilities

My responsibilities

User research, strategy, service design, and UX/UI design

Experience audit, user flows (physical and digital experience), wireframes, weekly stakeholder critiques, iterations and refinements, final responsive web designs, final design handoff to engineering team, user feedback and follow-up optimizations

The ask

The ask

We need to increase box 0 to box 2 retention.

Empathize

Empathize

  • Map current as-is user experience

  • Gathered research via user feedback from Usabilla comments and data metrics from data analytics team

Challenges

Challenges

Unsure how to confirm their meal selection

Users make several loops through their weekly meal selection, which I hypothesized was due to the user being unsure if their meal selection was confirmed.

No awareness of total order price

Users have no idea what the price of their total order price is until they are ultimately billed.

How might we

How might we

…better communicate to the user what is in their box (i.e. meals & price), and build confidence that they have completed their order?

Iterate

Iterate

  • Ideation workshop with my agile team

  • User flows

  • Wireframes

  • Prototyping & user testing

  • Weekly stakeholder critiques

  • Iterations and refinements

Solution

Solution

I created an order summary modal after weekly meal selection and a shortcut on the My Menu page to easily access your weekly order summary for both HelloFresh's responsive web experience as well as for their mobile apps (iOS and Android).

Takeaway #1

Takeaway #1

Transparency builds trust

Through reviewing user feedback, we found that users were often left frustrated only learning the total price of their meal box for that week after the fact. They didn't realize that they had selected meals that were added onto the base weekly box price. With such a sensitive topic as price, this led users to complain and ultimately leave for a competing brand.


With my new designs, that illuminated the price of each weekly box, we were able to increase net revenue by 4%, box 0-2 retention by 3%, pause rate by =3%, cancellation rate by -3%.

Takeaway #2

Takeaway #2

Be bold with bookending user actions

  • Users made several loops through meal selection because they hadn't realized they had completed their order for the week.

  • Our current onboarding task list was causing lots of confusion and frustration thinking they needed to refer a friend and rate a recipe in order to receive their box.


I removed the onboarding task list and tested an order confirmation after each initial weekly meal selection which increased net revenue by 4%, box 0-2 retention by 3%, pause rate by -3%, cancellation rate by -3%.

Team

Team

Melinda

Product Owner

Amanda McMicken (Me)

Product Designer

Joshua

Frontend Engineer

Chase

Backend Engineer

Camilo

QA Automation Engineer

Please reach out if you would like to see any project more in detail, interested to work with me, or just wanna grab a coffee and chat!

Amanda McMicken