LegalZoom

Problem

Small business owners are always juggling and wearing multiple hats. That’s why we needed to make every interaction count when designing tools that help them keep their businesses legally complaint. Our forms and questionnaires to file annual reports on our website didn’t recognize repeat visitors especially past customers. When small business owners are in a time pinch and need to get something done to keep their business legally compliant they need tools that respond and work swiftly. 

Our legacy Annual Report questionnaire design did the opposite of that. Especially for those that got a free subscription perk to file their annual report for their business for free. Customers who previously filed their annual report with us didn’t return to do it again with us. The data showed people didn’t file because it was a long extended process which resulted in significant drop off, fatigue and not remembering previously entered information to complete this business filing and treated each customer as a first time customer resulting in a poor user experience.

My Role

I redesigned the questionnaire to recognize repeat customers and first-use users and treating each experience like so.  I created responsive wireframes and user tested the designs addressing the additional use cases the questionnaire needed to support to enable customers to be productive. We believed that if we modernized the annual report questionnaire and prefilled questionnaires for returning users we would then enable them to get through the friction of having to re-type everything from scratch when we previous collected. While working on this at the same time I helped redesign major components of our design system and set standards and guidelines on how questionnaires work across other products on our website.