NEW RELIC / PLANS & PRICING

Designing a purchase experience to grow along with businesses

As a Lead/Staff Product Designer at New Relic, I was responsible for the research and redesign of the commerce user experience that helps buyers understand plan pricing, enables purchases and management of plans.


MY ROLE

Lead Product Designer


TEAM

Product Manager • 7 Engineers


USERS / PERSONAS

Engineering Managers, Software Engineers, Finance and Procurement Professionals


ACTIVITIES PERFORMED

UX Audit • Comparative Baseline Test • Workflows • Wireframes • High Fidelity Prototypes • Customer Calls • User Testing

How do we increase conversions of startup customers with an annual spend below $25k?

Buyers

Approves budgets and tools; has the power to buy monitoring solutions.


Eng Managers, Finance or Procurement Managers

Developer Users

Any software engineer using monitoring software for any part of their role in the last 30 days.


Software Eng

Influencers

Indirect but noted influence over purchases, gets approval with proposals


Lead Software Engs,

Eng Managers

Early signals from customer feedback serving as starting point for investigations.

Impact

Customers exit purchases to seek answers offsite; increasing likelihood of losing a sale.


Confusing, hard to read workflows


Sales suffer from additional overhead


Startups unlikely to convert without self-serve SKUs

Observations

Missing, outdated product details


Poor accessibility, awkward workflows


Some SKUs are only available to purchase by contacting Sales


Most <$25k spend customers prefer to self-serve purchases

Example of prior UI captured in the audit. This process helped identify assumptions that could be validated through a comparative baseline testing.

High fidelity

The wireframes were translated into high fidelity mocks and prepped in InVision for user testing.

Video Prototype

Detail of product card

Wireframes

I presented options for the redesigned experience for the browsing, viewing and adding subscriptions to cart and checkout workflows that are based on familiar workflows for purchasing products online.


Optimizations included list management functionality (pagination, filters/search, etc.) and adding descriptive, at-a-glance info to give more context for a purchase decision. A subscription calculator and toggle for monthly/annual pricing helps make it easier to predict price.


The cart view includes all items in the cart and the addition of upsell opportunities (add-ons). A simplified checkout focused on completing the purchase and the ability to edit items already in cart.


Post purchase, the user is prompted to configure their purchase or to make another buy. An abandoned cart workflow triggers if the user closes the window (abandoned cart email) or tries to navigate away from the page (internal modal).

Example wireframes based on workflow diagrams.

Progress is not always a straight line

Leadership announces a new pricing model…

SKU Based Pricing

(old model)

Fixed-rate based on number of units

Only access purchased SKUs

A storefront with individual products

Free unlimited Full users

Consumption Based Pricing

(New model)

Pay-as-you-go based on system usage

Get access to entire platform

Free, Standard, Pro & Enterprise tiers

Pay for Full users; Basic users free

… and we would have to shift gears to support customers under the new model.

Comparative Baseline Study

Overall, the participants preferred the new UI to the old one, noting improvements to checkout process and browsing purchases to be most helpful. With these results, we felt confident in moving forward with the new storefront designs.

Participant Users (4)



Tasks (2)

  • 2 existing New Relic customers

  • 2 prospective customers


  • Purchase an annual subscription of APM Pro in existing user experience

  • Repeat purchase in the proposed new user experience

Rate difficulty from 1 to 5.


(1= difficult and 5= easy)

4.25

Proposed

2.25

Existing

Which experience do

you prefer?

100%

Proposed

0%

Existing

Successfully completed

the purchase.

100%

Proposed

75%

Existing

New wireframes

I did a few explorations of a tiered plan pricing page to replace the storefront and product detail pages. We landed on an option that included optimizations to allow for existing customers to migrate to the new model.

Vertically stacked tiered pricing layout concept that was explored but eventually went with a classic horizontal layout.

Comparative Baseline Study

Overall, the participants preferred the new UI to the old one, noting improvements to checkout process and browsing purchases to be most helpful. With these results, we felt confident in moving forward with the new storefront designs.

Participant Users (4)




Tasks (2)

  • 2 existing New Relic customers

  • 2 prospective customers


  • Purchase an annual subscription of APM Pro in existing UI

  • Repeat purchase in the proposed new UI

Rate difficulty from 1 to 5.


(1= difficult and 5= easy)

4.25

Proposed

2.25

Existing

Which experience do

you prefer?

100%

Proposed

0%

Existing

Successfully completed

the purchase.

100%

Proposed

75%

Existing

New Relic Plans and Pricing

A redesigned subscription experience that allows customers to scale their services at the pace of their organizational growth.

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New Relic Plans and Pricing

A redesigned subscription experience that allows customers to scale their services at the pace of their organizational growth.

NEW RELIC / PLANS & PRICING

Designing a purchase experience to grow along with businesses

As a Lead/Staff Product Designer at New Relic, I was responsible for the research and redesign of the commerce user experience that helps buyers understand plan pricing, enables purchases and management of plans.


MY ROLE

Lead Product Designer


TEAM

Product Manager • 7 Engineers


USERS / PERSONAS

Engineering Managers, Software Engineers, Finance and Procurement Professionals


ACTIVITIES PERFORMED

UX Audit • Comparative Baseline Test • Workflows • Wireframes • High Fidelity Prototypes • Customer Calls • User Testing

How do we increase conversions of startup customers with an annual spend below $25k?

Buyers

Approves budgets and tools; has the power to buy monitoring solutions.


Eng Managers, Finance or Procurement Managers

Developer Users

Any software engineer using monitoring software for any part of their role in the last 30 days.


Software Eng

Influencers

Indirect but noted influence over purchases, gets approval with proposals


Lead Software Engs,

Eng Managers