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E-commerce · UX strategy & interaction design

The Home Depot · Checkout

A clearer path to purchase.

Simplifying a high-volume purchase journey through a one-page checkout and a way to preserve shopping intent when customers were not ready to buy.

My role
Senior UX Architect
Scope
Accounts, cart, checkout & Save for Later
Period
2016–2018

A complex purchase journey asks customers to manage product decisions and transaction steps at the same time. The account, cart, and checkout surfaces needed to work as a coherent experience.

Customers who were not ready to complete a purchase also needed a useful way to retain their selections. That required understanding deferred intent alongside immediate conversion.

I owned the account, cart, and checkout experience and led the one-page checkout design. My work connected research findings, interaction design, and cross-functional product decisions.

I also led the design and integration of Save for Later, extending the experience beyond the immediate transaction.

The project work included remote usability testing and synthesis of findings into product decisions. Research helped the team focus on usability changes with a clear relationship to the purchase journey.

The resulting checkout work brought a multi-step experience into a single page. Save for Later addressed the separate need to return to a considered purchase.

01

Bring checkout into one coherent surface

The transaction journey was distributed across steps.

Design a one-page checkout that made the purchase process easier to follow.

02

Preserve the intent to return

A customer could be interested in an item without being ready to purchase it now.

Give Save for Later a defined place in the cart experience so selections could survive beyond the current transaction.

03

Connect research to implementation

Insights needed a clear path into product and engineering decisions.

Use research synthesis to align partners around focused usability changes across accounts, cart, and checkout.

Research and cross-functional work informed improvements across the related surfaces. The checkout redesign and Save for Later addressed two distinct moments: completing the current purchase and maintaining intent for a future one.

+23%reported checkout conversion
+15%reported revenue from Save for Later
−20%checkout time, as cited by Forbes

The conversion and revenue measures describe separate product changes. Forbes’s 2017 coverage highlighted Home Depot’s simplified checkout and the reduction in checkout time; my role was leading the one-page checkout experience design.

Read the Forbes coverage

Reducing friction includes respecting different states of readiness. A good shopping experience supports completing a purchase and returning to a considered one.