This project showcases my work at upGrad, South Asia's largest online higher education platform. During my transition to Senior Product Designer, I led the experience design for critical bottom-of-funnel and retention journeys. The overarching challenge was to systematically improve acquisition and revenue performance across a high-ticket, high-anxiety consumer product.
To make the work easier to explore, I’ve broken it into 3 connected case studies: mitigating churn through offboarding, engineering a viral referral loop, and revamping the e-commerce checkout process.
Together, they reflect how I approach growth design — mapping complex behavioral psychology to structural UI changes to drive measurable business outcomes. This work increased referral revenue contribution from 12% to 30%, transformed a high-friction payment gateway into a seamless self-serve engine, and introduced strategic exit-ramps designed to recover millions in potential churn.
Transforming a tactless, frustrating exit into a strategic "considered exit ramp" — mitigating churn while operationalizing trust and recovering millions in potential lost revenue.
Overhauling upGrad’s referral system from a buried desktop link into an omnipresent, psychology-driven growth engine that increased referral revenue from 12% to 30%.
Replacing an administrative legacy system with an intuitive, self-serve e-commerce checkout experience across all platforms to fix a 70% drop-off rate.