Wellness marketplace: Cutting down the drop-off rate by 34% with human-centered UI/UX

Project overview
Over the past several years, the wellness market saw a boom in online activity. Yoga, pilates, and meditation sessions taking place over Zoom or Google Meets have become the new normal. For small businesses, that meant they were no longer limited by their location: they could access anyone anywhere, adding a new revenue stream to their income.
To make the most out of this opportunity, however, wellness practitioners needed a convenient platform to reach their global audience.
Our client, Flowmingo, took notice. This social enterprise was born to help small wellness businesses and individual instructors financially recover after the pandemic. To achieve this goal, Flowmingo decided to launch a marketplace that would connect them to their potential customers and facilitate online sessions and bookings for in-person events.
To cut through the noise, however, Flowmingo had to offer convenience to both segments of its future users. That meant seamless cross-border payments, intuitive signup and scheduling, and smooth integrations with video conference tools like Zoom and Google Meet. Of course, the platform’s intuitiveness, ease of use, scalability, and flexibility were also non-negotiable.
We rose to the challenge to help our client win over future users’ hearts.
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Business challenges
There was no shortage of competition in the wellness marketplace domain, so Flowmingo must differentiate its platform. After some deliberation with the client, we settled on leveraging the platform’s convenience, smooth international transactions, and support for both online and in-person sessions as its key differentiators.
After an extensive discovery phase, we identified the full scope of strategic business needs and technical requirements our product would have to be aligned with. They included:
Strategic business needs
Technical requirements
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Solutions
Based on our client’s needs and requirements, we designed an intuitive UI/UX that makes every action simple and convenient while reflecting Flowmingo’s brand values. Thanks to our reliance on human-centered design, our client saw improvements across multiple engagement and usability metrics.
In addition to the UI/UX design, we took on the development itself. We turned the wireframes and prototypes into a functioning interface using Ionic and Vue.js, two frameworks ideal for building fast cross-platform interfaces that look outstanding on any screen size and device type.
We used a containerized architecture approach to ensure future scalability and flexibility. The platform’s server-side components were built with Laravel, a PHP web framework that supports modular packaging, and deployed using Docker.



UI/UX that engages and boosts the NPS
To ensure users enjoyed using the platform, we relied heavily on user interviews and research from the very beginning, walking a mile in a future user’s shoes. We iterated through multiple wireframes and prototypes until we settled on the ideal look, feel, and behavior for the platform.
As a result, the marketplace has seen an improvement across a number of engagement metrics. For instance, the drop-off rate declined by 34%, while the average session duration increased by 23%. The interface’s convenience and smooth user flows also helped the brand win over its users’ hearts: the marketplace’s NPS rose by 17% after our design’s launch.

Perfect brand identity alignment
We used a minimalistic design approach to emphasize the marketplace’s functionality, make CTAs easy to spot, and improve usability. The selected color scheme – white, blue, orange, and pastel shades – added a serene feel that reflected our client’s brand.
Thanks to our focus on brand identity alignment, Flowmingo quickly established itself as a recognizable, memorable brand that stands out among a swath of direct and indirect competitors. Design consistency and its appeal also helped Flowmingo foster trust in its brand among potential users.

Signup that removes friction
Our client was adamant that signup should be as easy as possible for new users. We heeded the client’s request and kept the signup page as concise as possible. We added responsive password strength verification and social media signup options using Google, Facebook, and Apple REST APIs to streamline the experience even further.
Removing friction from the signup user flow ensured there were no roadblocks to converting visitors into registered users. At the same time, strong password enforcement secured accounts against brute-force unauthorized access.

Smooth search and booking
To help customers find what they’re looking for, we added a powerful keyword-based search, along with location, session type, and other filters. As for booking, we made it easy with a short questionnaire for selecting the session’s time, place, type, and trainer. Users can also view all upcoming sessions in a calendar.
The convenience of finding and booking the session the user has been looking for became a key selling point for our client’s marketplace. Ensuring all user flows remained frictionless contributed to the increase in engagement metrics and net promoter scores. The time to find and find ability rate also rose by 12% and 14%, respectively.

Video call integrations
Besides social media signup and login and multiple payment methods, we also implemented integrations with Google Meet and Zoom. Thanks to these integrations, users can easily schedule and access online sessions from their account.
These seamless integrations save time for both instructors and their customers, removing another key source of friction present in some other wellness marketplaces. The decision to add these integrations allowed Flowmingo to gain an extra competitive advantage, all while improving its NPS and engagement metrics.

Checkout that takes mere seconds
The checkout supports multiple payment methods, such as Stripe and M-Pesa, with an automated tax calculation right on the page. Payment types are also diverse: users can pay for memberships, group sessions, and individual classes. On top of that, we added a donation feature so that customers could tip their coaches.
Diverse payment methods and types provided wellness instructors with the freedom to charge customers and accept payments as they prefer. The option to receive donations was also praised by the marketplace’s early users as a potential extra revenue stream. At the same time, the simplicity of the checkout allowed us to prevent drop-off and boost conversions.
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Impact
Following our work on Flowmingo’s marketplace, our client saw an impact across multiple metrics:
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