First Coffee

Mobile app and website experience for a specialty coffee brand, merging commerce, community, and lifestyle into one cohesive ecosystem.

Services

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Experience design

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Product Design

Objective

Drive retention, engagement and loyalty by creating an experience that feels aspirational yet accessible, while supporting high-frequency interactions (barista orders, rewards & merchandise).

Solution

Designed a system where neighbourhood coffee culture meets commerce, enabling consistent, high-frequency engagement at scale.

  • Built a narrative-led UX integrating ordering, loyalty, and merchandise into a seamless flow.

  • Designed a flexible system to support frequent campaign drops and evolving brand storytelling without breaking consistency.

  • Introduced reusable interaction patterns and content frameworks that balanced creative expression with usability.

  • Aligned brand, product, and engineering through clear design systems and guardrails.

Impact

Structured design systems turned complexity into clarity, improving speed and accuracy at scale.

  • Increased repeat engagement by 45% by unifying ordering, loyalty, and merchandise into one seamless flow.

  • Cut campaign rollout time by 50% with a modular system that enabled faster drops and iterations.

  • Improved conversion by 25% by simplifying journeys and aligning storytelling with clear actions.