Redesigning Udemy's Homepage: Bridging D2C Learners and B2B Buyers

Designed a holistic experience for buyers and learner professionals across all Udemy touchpoints in 2023.

Launched in 2024

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Role

UX Design

UX Research

Design System

Duration

Apr - Aug 2023 

5 months

Tools

Figma

Miro
Usertesting

Overview

Background

We aim to reposition Udemy from an e-commerce platform to a professional learning hub focused on skill development. Our previous user experiences didn’t fully align with our evolving offerings for individuals and organizations, often emphasizing sales over the value of learning. This initiative seeks to unify our branding and user journeys, ensuring users feel the benefits of learning while addressing the diverse touch points they engage with across the site.

Goal

The goal of this case study is to position Udemy’s logged-out homepage as the leading learning destination for organization buyers and professional learners. Our goal is to highlight professional learning outcomes through a redesigned learner-oriented Homepage, unifying our product portfolio to prioritize organizational buyers' needs.

My role

I led the exploratory design process, facilitated cross-functional collaboration with product managers, developers, copywriters, and visual designers, and spearheaded usability testing to validate the final solutions from April to September 2023. The redesigned homepage was successfully launched and scaled to 18 countries by June 2024.

Outcome

We have significantly improved our primary metric of core web vitals, first contentful paint, which translated to a stat-sig lift in net D2C GMV. These changes are expected to drive an incremental +$1.1M/yr. We have rolled out the winning variant to all countries. Now all countries are seeing the new and improved Frontends logged-out homepage.

Objectives

Professional learners
  • Discover wide range of professional skill development courses.
  • Find courses tailored to your interests.
  • Easily access promotions
Organization buyers
  • Build trust in Udemy’s brand by showcasing diverse learning solutions.
  • Help org buyers navigate to the right purchasing options seamlessly.
Our company
  • Foster brand trust using geo-relevant content, social proof, and outcomes.
  • Showcase value propositions and offerings that resonate with organizations.

Get in touch

elainezhou1996@gmail.com  •  571-435-2347