Year

2024

Product

Virgin Red loyalty web and app

Solving discoverability issues of our partner brands

Virgin Red is a loyalty programme where members can earn points and redeem rewards with our platforms.

I led the design of the partner brand pages to aggregate partner’s content to solve the discoverability of partner brand content. I worked with PM, 6-7 engineers during the delivery phase. The project solved the discoverability issues, and drove the business’ revenue by surfacing partner brands content.


The earn and redeeming journey

Our product is a loyalty programme and composed of tiles allowing users to earn points and redeem rewards

Users pain-points

• There are limited ways to discover content

• Our users asked for easier categories and brands discovery on our products

Business problems

• Partners brands propositions was scattered, affecting sales and revenues

An opportunity to address both problems

• Partner page with a structure of category page


Alignment on how do we improve discoverability

Gather ideas on how do we improve discoverability and align teams through workshops, and prioritisation based on business objectives




Analysing current offerings of different brands

To decide on the partners to start with


Looking into individual partner page

• To get a sense of what are the users needs on each partner page

• Findings - There are common and bespoke needs on each partner



Open card sorting

• To see how users categorise content on a partner page

• Findings - Getting points and receiving points are the clearest ways to divide content at this stage of the product



Approach

• Different users need on different partners, but with a core benefits by presenting image, logos and an description

• For current states - segregate content into earn and rewards ; For future state - having bespoke modules



Next stage and future vision


Entry points and using new tiles structure

• Deciding the entry points to get to the page

• Designing tiles that are easy to recognise and distinguish from the generic tiles when they are placed together


Partner tile iteration

Design goal of the tiles

• Show that it is a collection - distinguishable with single item tile

• Scalable - go in line with the tiles redesign



A plan for stages of implementation


Results

Data showing improvement of discoverability

• Both views and clicks of the tiles increased 24% and 19% respectively

Contributed to business partners relationship

• Launched 5 partner brands and bring the valued partners content up for the users

Contribute to long term product strategy

• Future visions for tiles and wider partners and categories page

Learnings

Deciding on an approach that works for a complex context

• Using different research methodologies to decide on an evident-based approach

The re-design of the tiles and the implementation of new partner page and page structure improve the discoverability of the product.

The technical constraints are mitigated through collaborating with teams, and put forward future-proofing solutions for the growth and stability of the products.