The Background
myworld.com was e-commerce website (marketplace) that connected companies and their customers in more than 6 languages and countries in Europe. The company intention was to optimise the current product and extend this reach to additional countries and customers (which we did – after 1 year we managed to expand in more than 10 countries)
The company had offices all over Europe and already had Graphic designers, but they realised they needed now UX designers in order to grow their business. This is when the UX design was created – in Vienna (me), one in Warsaw and our team lead in Zurich.
My Role
My main tasks were related to analyzing and optimizing the e-commerce website and the user flow but also adding new features and even a mobile app that we were asked to design. In many of my projects I collaborated with the colleague UX designer and I worked closely with with the product owners and with the developers team. We were of course working Agile, in Sprints.
An interesting challenge at myWorld marketplace
When I took over and I started analyzing I realised there was a lot to optimise because everything they have done so far was created in “desktop first” concept. Now we had to rethink and optimise for “mobile first” because a considerable amount of our customers were using mobile. There were issues that were making hard for our users to purchase products – they had to scroll to see important information, some buttons were not visible enough, we had too many steps in the checkout process.
The process
When starting a project I used to begin with a brief establishing clearly our targets and purpose, having documentation and use cases, having a preliminary meeting (sometimes a brainstorm) with the team then I went into research and sketches (Miro or paper) low Fi mocks followed by a short discussion with the team to make sure we are on the right track then I went into High Fidelity mocks and clickable prototype that could be used for testing.
When the concept was final it followed an export into Zeplin and indvidual assets and specs for the developers then a period of close collaboration with them and with the product owner to make sure the project is implemented correctly and off course testing at the end.

In the begining
There was a small style guide existing, i took a look into it then i looked deeply into the website on production and test environment to bring all the elements in and make the style guide more extensive. Specially I would mention adding parts of CSS code and components to help guide the programmers that i collaborated with.

Then I started looking into the user flows
I looked for issues that our users encounter when accessing the marketplace with a special focus on the purchasing action. Took a look at mobile screens, as in the past focus was on desktop so they were not always very well optimized, and some serious issues came out like for example the cookie notice covering the buy button on small screens. This was solved by making it transparent and showing what is underneath.

I continued with mobile screens and realised that our users sometimes have to scroll a lot in order to see product details or buy a product, so I reorganized the product page in order to make this action easier.

Also I took a look at shopping cart on mobile and made some changes here too so that we won’t waste precious space and force scrolling, in the new view the users can see better the order summary and edit their orders if needed .



After improvements, we started adding new features
After we optimised the myworld.com marketplace and we had a more usable product, the most interesting part came – we did a full analysis of our product to see what we could improve and we also looked at our competition (Amazon, Universal, MediaMarkt) and we realized our users could greatly benefit from reviews and ratings, because it would help them chose between products and merchants and gain trust easier, so we started on this path.



Product ratings


Going even bigger
Another challenge here was to present this special promotion next to the normal prices everywhere and offcourse to adapt it for mobile screens too.


Going mobile


