company

Thimble

role

Design Director, Web

years

2020—2022

.com Experience

Lead design, direction and technical implementation of the .com with the goal of increasing conversion rate and driving organic traffic.

Credits

Lauren Thompson, Min Kang

Thimble website design showing the insurance product experience

Challenge

Enter a high performance, fast moving team fresh out of a rebrand with a clunky WYSIWYG editor on top of Wordpress. Drive growth focused optimizations and full page redesigns on the logged out surface.

Homepage redesign—10% increase in CTA clicks, 3.4% increase in transactions and a 7.8% decrease in bounce rate.

Results

Designed and collaborated with engineers on an MVP design system, including a system of interaction animations, and moved the site from Elementor to ACF. This decreased go-live time across the project and reduced QA time and bloat on the site. After going live, we benefitted from a 32% increase in performance, 1.5 second decrease in time to LCP (largest contentful paint) and a reduction to 0 seconds total blocking time.

Once the design system was in place, I continued to test full page redesigns and optimizations. I solved for some core user experience issues and designed a new product page template, including adding the ability for a user to get a quote on page for their policy. This test saw a 13% increase in CTA clicks and a 2% increase in transactions.

A homepage redesign focused on improved brand expression and saw a 10% increase in CTA clicks, 3.4% increase in transactions and a 7.8% decrease in bounce rate.

We also ran smaller optimizations that leveraged personalization for improved return to quote experiences. Our initial test ran over a few weeks and resulted in 1,353 more new leads and 6.5% increase in conversion (policies bound).

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Product page redesign—13% increase in CTA clicks and a 2% increase in transactions

Return to quote optimization—1,353 more new leads and 6.5% increase in conversion (policies bound)