My role
Product Strategy
Product Design
User Experience
Design System
Company
Hotjar

Quantitative data tells you what’s wrong with your website. Hotjar’s insights tell you why, so you can make the changes that matter.

The team and myself improved the onboarding for +15,000 new sign ups creating an account every month. We improved the user experience, updated the UI and created reusable design system components. I built growth motions in a hybrid PM/designer capacity.

3x
subscriptions
We saw a jump in subscriptions from our ideal customers. This contributes to millions of revenue.
+10%
product adoption
As a result of removing friction we saw more people adopting the product successfully in their workflow.
3
major releases
We've built new functionality that not only assists customers in adopting the product, but also enables our commercial and product teams.
The heat-map

More than 300,000 product teams use Hotjar on more than 1,000,000 websites across the web. The product became widely popular because of the ability to capture user interactions on heatmaps and records user sessions. Hotjar also enables team to collect live feedback from users with surveys and ratings.

The code

Before capturing where users click or what they say, Hotjar’s cusomters need to install a javascript piece of code (SDK) in the head section of their website or codebase of the product.

🧐
So, we promise customers to see what are the hidden problems of their digital products, but first we ask them to complete a technical set up.

All new users were forced to install Hotjar on account creation. However, not every new user's role was to deal with installation. As a result 45% of new sign ups churned. The product experience was not taking into account the variety of users, their different needs and jobs-to-be-done. The product experience didn’t effectively convert new users into paid subscribers.

The sign up

We found out that around 30% of our target customers would skip the installation steps during registration. To improve the subscription process, we ran an A/B test where we removed the installation screens for some users and made them only accessible once inside the product. The paradox - we increased the install rate with 10.32% for our target segment

The first moment

Customers prefer a clear direction on how to start with new products. We created a "get-started" list to ensure a smooth first experience. Enterprise customers purchasing Hotjar navigate compliance and procurement processes internally, so they look for help and information before subscription and installation. In those instances, we offer a white-glove service, which 3x-ed subscriptions from target customers.

On-going guidance

We created ongoing suggestions to ensure a smooth experience. Contextualization decreases sales cycle length, and the reusable design components help product teams increase the velocity and adoption of different product features.

Special Shoutouts
Alessio Lassio, Staff Product Designer
Adam Płócieniak, Software Engineer
Elena Petrova, Software Engineer
Ryan Calleja, Software Engineer

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