My Role: Product Designer
Platform: Mobile App (iOS, Android)
Type: Consumer-facing
Project scope: 1 year

skywards everyday

Earning Miles without flying & supporting Emirates airline to expand its partnerships

Earning Miles without flying & supporting Emirates Airlines to expand its partnerships

Earning Miles without flying & supporting Emirates Airlines to expand its partnerships

Skywards Everyday is a mobile App for customers enrolled in the Skywards Loyalty Programme. It allows them to earn Miles with their everyday expenses in Dubai, generating loyalty with the airline and its associated brand partners.

It also supports Emirates airline in creating new partnerships in under 5 minutes, a legal process which used to take months.

Challenge

Bringing the Emirates experience to the App

Bringing the Emirates experience to the App

The design felt clunky and confusing.
The new design needed to be delightful to use

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My process

Sharing a common goal & understanding the size of it.

Sharing a common goal & understanding the size of it.

As part of my research, I reviewed the existing documentation and talked with my stakeholders to understand what they were looking for and what went wrong before.

 I brought transparency to the design process by keeping them updated, explaining the rationale behind the project and as my first delivery, showing the size of the project.

Flow map for the project

Ideation

From workshops
to wireframes

Drawing and sharing our ideas improved communication and collaboration.

Drawing and sharing our ideas allowed us to communicate better and increased the respect between the members of the team

As the project evolved the fidelity of the visuals did it too. Maps, sketches, low fidelity prototypes, and only after testing and validating our ideas we worked with high fidelity designs.

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Result

The final design

The final design

Ready to go shopping

79k Downloads in three months
280 New partners
4.2 Average rating in App stores

79k Downloads in three months
280 New partners
4.2 Average rating in App stores

79k Downloads in three months
280 New partners
4.2 Average rating in App stores

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My learnings

Some take aways

Communication and transparency create healthy environments and gains trust.

Test Early, Validate assumptions, learn and iterate.

Share the same language by defining goals, expectations and documenting the design.

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