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Growth & Revenue

upGrad

Product Design, EdTech, B2C, Growth

3 CASE STUDIES shipped 2019 – 2021

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.


📝 MINI CASE STUDY

Redesigning the Exit: Turning upGrad’s Offboarding into a Retention Engine

Transforming a tactless, frustrating exit into a strategic "considered exit ramp" — mitigating churn while operationalizing trust and recovering millions in potential lost revenue.

upgrad offboarding
upgrad referrals
📝 MINI CASE STUDY

Engineering a Viral Loop: Designing upGrad’s Referrals 2.0

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%.

📝 MINI CASE STUDY

The Final Click: Transforming upGrad’s Checkout into a Self-Serve E-Commerce Engine

Replacing an administrative legacy system with an intuitive, self-serve e-commerce checkout experience across all platforms to fix a 70% drop-off rate.

upgrad checkout
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