Thank You Page Revamp

Amazon Pay  |  2021

User experience research and design improvements for Amazon Pay payment platform, focusing on user pain points and service optimization through comprehensive user scenario analysis.

User scenario on current system

Rahul, thrilled with his first paycheck, eagerly took on the responsibility of paying household bills to ease his dad's burden. He opted to use Amazon Pay after seeing its seamless payment ads & chooses to be it's first customer. However, his experience with the service left him frustrated and anxious.

User scenario showing Rahul's three-step journey: taking time to pay electricity bill, calling Amazon customer care frustrated, and getting severe headache with bills still unpaid

Current system has a lot of UX glitches and information gap which starts from the point as users tap Pay now & following are the steps/screens they have to go through before landing on the TYP

Current system UX flow showing user journey from Pay now button through three screens with UX glitches and information gaps before reaching Thank You Page

Research insights

High Level Design Critic

Customers often don't realize they've reached the final step of the transaction & landed on the Thank You page, as there's no clear visual break or distinction from the previous pages.

The success card's visual treatment closely resembles the cards beneath it, diminishing the sense of achievement & excitement that should come with a successful transaction.

The abundance of elements on the page can slow down customers as they try to read & comprehend every section

Positioning the rewards card at the edge of the ATF may cause customers to overlook it. Given its role in building trust and encouraging repeat engagement with Amazon Pay, this section holds higher priority than those placed above it.

Different categories use inconsistent Thank You page designs and language, making it difficult for customers to develop a familiar mental model of this key transaction moment.

Customer voice feedback showing user quotes about payment experience
Detailed interface analysis
Amazon Pay interface example Order status interface

Problem hypothesis

Our understanding of the customer frustrations is based on multiple studies that have been conducted in US and in India to understand users behaviour around thank you pages. While most of the frustrations are based our understanding of the problem, we plan to test this experience with users against the below problems -

Problem hypothesis showing customer frustrations: Low Perceived Success Rate, Information gap, Decrease in trust, I don't use Amazon pay, and Inconsistent TYPs

Design Goal

Make Amazon Pay the most trusted, convenient and rewarding way to pay

Design goal strategy showing Vision, Goals, Plan, and UX Strategy with execution details

Vision is to launch northstar version of Thank You page

Goal is to make Amazon Pay trusted, convenient & rewarding.

Plan is to experiment with one HFC use case and scale the design to other use cases.

User testing with a smaller group of people to validate our design hypothesis. (Open lab testing)

Use cases & states

Use cases and states showing various payment categories: Gold, P2P, Bill Payment, Gift Card, Google Play, Scan & Pay, Recharges, Education Fee, Credit Card, Auto Reload, Add Money, Travel, Movies, with legend showing Success state, Failed state, Pending state, and Intermediary/Medial States. Note: We rolled out with 13 use cases in Dec 2022

Process exploration end to end

First time use case design journey

First time use case design journey workflow showing TYP PM, Category Team Alignment, Use Case Team Alignment, Design, Manager & Team, with feedback loops and lightning bolt icons indicating iterative process

Writing MOM mails throughout!

Scalable design thinking to 13 use cases journey

Scalable design thinking workflow showing TYP PM, Design, TYP PM Alignment, Use Case Team Alignment, Manager & Team, Fixate on design thinking, with feedback work loops and lightning bolt icons

Design screens

Processing screen 1

Processing screen 1 showing Amazon Pay prepaid recharge loading state with spinner

Processing screen 2

Processing screen 2 showing payment confirmation from bank with loading spinner

Expanded TYP

Expanded Thank You Page showing mobile recharge successful with green checkmark and confetti burst effect

Stable TYP

Stable Thank You Page showing collapsed drawer experience with rewards, recommendations, and next best actions

Design direction reasoning

  • The expanded TYP design captures central object on top which is anchoring the page to give out context to the customer.
  • The confetti burst is a visual representation for reward on expanded TYP to grab customer's attention.
  • Moving to stable TYP through the drawer experience (auto collapse) the central object remains constant
  • The design captures central object on the top which will anchor the page and set context to the customer.
  • Followed by the state of the transaction which is tied up with order details, as they are co-dependant and further sets clarity to customer in the 'state chicklet'
  • Order detail information is 1 click away as its a good to have information not must seen information
  • Your reward is anchoring the drawer experience as the idea is to give visibility to rewards for customer satisfaction and joy.
  • Followed by the next best action on the screen, followed by ads and marketing banner & recommendations.

Design screens

Thank You page designs across multiple Amazon Pay use cases

Credit card recharges

Credit card recharges Thank You page

Metro recharges

Metro recharges Thank You page

Gift card purchased

Gift card purchase Thank You page

Electricity bill

Electricity bill payment Thank You page

DTH recharge

DTH recharge Thank You page

Credit card bill payment

Credit card bill payment Thank You page

Education fee

Education fee payment Thank You page

Gift card sent

Gift card sent Thank You page

Auto reload

Auto reload Thank You page

Google play recharge

Google Play recharge Thank You page

Digital gold sale

Digital gold sale Thank You page

Digital gold purchase

Digital gold purchase Thank You page

Money added

Money added Thank You page

Pending State

Pending state mobile interface showing mobile postpaid payment pending with order status and next actions

Failed State

Failed state mobile interface showing mobile postpaid payment failed with error message and recovery options

Edge case TYP design for the user to be aware of why their transaction went into failed/pending state and what are the next best actions they can take to come out of this state.

This page also does not push the user out of Amazon, but enables the user to surf inside Amazon and look at other use cases. This way

Cross product impact - rewards experience (LIVE')

Rewards Presence on Thank You page

Rewards presence on Thank You page showing Amazon Pay wallet with rewards and scratch card notification

Rewards Experience Step 1

Rewards experience step 1 showing congratulations modal with crown icon and reward expiry details

Rewards Experience Step 2

Rewards experience step 2 showing congratulations screen with cashback details and collect now button

Observed gaps in rewards experience while designing rewards component on TYP.

Taking ownership to re structure rewards experience

Addressing, convincing leadership & rewards team about the gaps by making case studies about the current experience & it's fallouts.

Design new experience by listing pros and whys of new design

Going Above & Beyond to re-design the experience keeping customer as center of focus.

Interactive & scalable design thinking

Cross product impact - rewards experience (wireframes)

Cashback rewards wireframe showing mobile recharge successful screen with confetti burst
Cashback rewards wireframe showing Amazon Pay wallet with cashback details
Cashback rewards wireframe showing congratulations modal with ₹50 cashback

Rewards element highlighted with a confetti burst. No rewards, no confetti burst

Why this ideation would work?

1) Rewards getting highlighted by both channels - highest priority element on drawer.

2) Congratulation line... tying the whole component of rewards.

3) Reward icon will create a mental modal in customer's head.

4) Cashback all elements crystal clear

5) Offers visual showcase over text

6) Multiple rewards layout flexible enough to stretch to heavier use cases.

7) The layout is also easy to navigate and switch between rewards. You are able to see 4 rewards at 1 time

Offer Rewards

Offer rewards wireframe showing mobile recharge successful with confetti
Offer rewards wireframe showing Amazon Pay wallet with offer details
Offer rewards wireframe showing congratulations modal with offer cards

Offers card clickable, will lead to pop up experience. The card simplifies the reading pattern and visually calls out offers, which is effective for a customer to remember.

Base Rules for the design

1) All cards are clickable and will lead to the pop up experience (Cashback/offers/Scratchcard)

2) All 3 channels of rewards have been drawn into cards.

3) No rewards, no confetti

4) Only scratch cards are scratchable cards, Cashback and offers are view cards

Scratch Card

Scratch card wireframe showing mobile recharge successful with scratch card notification
Scratch card wireframe showing congratulations screen with emoji
Scratch card wireframe showing scratch card collection screen

Desktop designs

Processing screen 1

Desktop processing screen 1 showing Amazon Pay mobile prepaid loading state with progress indicator

Processing screen 2

Desktop processing screen 2 showing Amazon Pay mobile prepaid with enhanced loading state and progress
Complete desktop Thank You page design showing mobile recharge successful with order details, rewards section, and marketing cards

The design captures central object on the top which will anchor the page and set context to the customer.

Followed by the state of the transaction which is tied up with order details, as they are co-dependant and further sets clarity to customer in the 'state chicklet'

Order detail information is 1 click away as its a good to have information not must seen information, a modal experience would help the customer to concentrate on the element they are clicking to read through.

The design captures central object on the top which will anchor the page and set context to the customer. The confetti burst happens on rewards element to highlight the reward piece

The marketing slot is a quad card that gives us the opportunity to project 3 more use cases and interest the customer back onto the website.

UX Writing

UX writing process table showing Use case, UX Writing, Product, Feedback, Design, Feedback, and Screens columns for Mobile Recharge Successful scenario
Comprehensive UX writing workflow showing screens, wireframes, and content structure for mobile recharge experience
  • Took ownership to be ux writer
  • Completed Ux writing course from Amazon
  • Earned trust by presenting learnings from the ux writing to leadership
  • Presented solutions to the design
  • Aligned leadership and respective use case teams on ux writing by educating and listing whys.
  • Scalable design

UX and Tech metrics tracked

Success metrics dashboard showing Task Success Rate improvement from 66.2% to 98.2%, Perceived Latency Rate Improved by design from 24.8% to 56.4%, and Reduction in transaction pending & failed status from 22% to 2%, with celebratory team image saying 'We made Rahul's day!'