Deal Drop - Making Local Deals Instantly Discoverable
Deal Drop - Making Local Deals Instantly Discoverable

Spot nearby offers, compare deals, and shop smarter around you.

Spot nearby offers, compare deals, and shop smarter around you.

UI/UX Internship Project

Team

4 Developers + 2 UI/UX Designers + 1 PM + 2 Stakeholders.

Scope of work

Led UX strategy and UI design for a live client project, spanning information architecture, user flows, and interaction design.

Impact

Improved visibility, engagement, and conversions by creating a clear, data-driven path from discovery to loyalty for sellers.

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Bringing Local Stores on Digital Platforms

A hyperlocal platform that centralizes fashion and lifestyle deals, empowers merchants to publish offers easily, and connects online discovery with offline redemption through a mobile-first experience.

Problem

Local Stores Go Undiscovered, Shoppers Lack One Place for Deals

Local sellers struggle to showcase in-store deals digitally.

Shoppers lack a central platform to find nearby fashion and lifestyle offers.

Frequent missed opportunities due to poor deal visibility and discovery.

Buyer & Seller Needs at a Glance

What We Heard

From The Customers

Offline fashion offers rarely surface in time. I hear about them through friends or spot a banner when it’s almost over.
Need: real-time notifications, clear expiry info, trusted store ratings.

From The Seller

I rely on WhatsApp Business other platforms feel too complex and low reach. Marketing usually means high cost, uncertain returns.
Need: Simple · Affordable · Value-driven tools

Sketching Our Users

Myth
Bigger discounts would attract more shoppers.
Reality
Shoppers don’t just care about big discounts they care about when and where those deals appear.
Process

Deal Lifecycle

Design That Connects Both Sides

For Buyer

Discover nearby deals with smart filters. Save favorites, enjoy a clean, smart interface, and get discounts with digital payments fast, easy, and rewarding.

For Sellers

Easy, icon-based tools with few - click promotions and simple Indian English support make digital simple for him. Real-time results and goal-focused steps to attract customers.

Customer Journey Flow

✓ Jobs to Be Done

Users first discover the app through the website, browse and save the deals they like, and when they visit the store, they can easily redeem those saved offers via online payment.

Seller Journey Flow

✓ Jobs to Be Done

Seller discovers the platform, create their profile with all essential details, list product offers with validity periods, add subscriptions to boost visibility, and review reports to gain better insights.

I mapped and validated both buyer and seller journeys to align business goals with real-world behaviors.

Design Ideation and Client-Driven Decisions

  • Held off on adding popular searches until post-launch, allowing real user behavior to shape relevant suggestions.

  • Enabled smart autofill of city and state through PINCODE input to simplify seller onboarding and reduce manual effort.

Solution

One Platform for Local Deals

Makes it easy for shoppers to find and access local fashion and lifestyle deals all in one place.

Sellers showcase exclusive discounts to more shoppers, driving visibility, footfall, and sales.

Guiding the shoppers and enabling store follows for contextual personalisation discovery.

Design Language

Typography (Font)

Colours

The stakeholders requested red as the primary brand color, so we used #BB3C41 a shade that signals discounts, urgency, and action, instantly grabs attention, and aligns with how users recognize deals.

System colors

Iconography

Standard Material Icons were selected to ensure visual familiarity, ease of recognition, and quick integration within the UI framework.

UI Design & Prototype

Helping Shoppers Find Deals

Mapping the Seller’s Growth Journey

Helping Shoppers Find Deals

Impact

Business Growth for Sellers

Aspect
Before the solution
After the solution
Visibility

Hard to stand out

Local targeting reach

Engagement

Low interaction

Deals & alerts drive traffic

Sales Flow

No clear path

Smooth install-to-redeem

Insights

Decisions by guesswork

Real-time data in reports

Loyalty

No feedback

Reviews build trust

Learning

Designing with clarity balancing users, business, and build realities

Gained deep insights into user behavior through the design process.

Ensured visual consistency with purposeful color choices, building a lean and scalable product.

Balanced stakeholder and developer needs while keeping user experience central.

Designed for shoppers & sellers using simple Indian English, intuitive flows, and future-ready regional language support.

UI Design & Prototype

Helping Shoppers Find Deals

Mapping the Seller’s Growth Journey

Helping Shoppers Find Deals

Impact

Business Growth for Sellers

Aspect
Before the solution
After the solution
Visibility

Hard to stand out

Targeting reach

Engagement

Low interaction

Deals drive traffic

Sales Flow

No clear path

Install-to-redeem

Insights

Decisions by guesswork

Real-time data

Loyalty

No feedback

Reviews build trust

Learning

Designing with clarity balancing users, business, and build realities

Gained deep insights into user behavior through the design process.

Ensured visual consistency with purposeful color choices, building a lean and scalable product.

Balanced stakeholder and developer needs while keeping user experience central.

Designed for shoppers & sellers using simple Indian English, intuitive flows, and future-ready regional language support.