INTRODUCTION

Louisville Water

Utilities App UI/UX Case Study

Quickly and easily pay your utility bill with only a couple taps.

The Louisville Water Company is the public water provider for the Louisville, KY metro area. Louisville Water’s footprint includes more than 1,000 square miles and it’s customer base is over 1 million people. In just a few taps, manage your accounts, pay your bill, and check your water usage. It’s never been more simple.

Duration

January-February 2021

My Role

I was the sole designer and researcher on this project. I conducted user interviews, and created personas, style guides, wireframes, and more.

Tools

Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop

The Process

Research
Strategy
Ideate
Prototype

Research

Initially I started by conducting short interviews, and asking users to fill out a questionnaire. This allowed me to glimpse into their typical day to day usage of the Louisville Water Company services and revealed pain points for the user.

Findings

•Time spent is less than 10 minutes per month on the LWC website. Most people only use the service to pay their bill online.

•Users thought the site was overly complicated, redundant and dated looking. Site did not look or seem cohesive.

•The auto-pay feature was a very popular feature with nearly all users.

•Paying your bill was a giant source of frustration, this part of the service is not optimized for online use and is confusing.

•Customer service is basically non-existent online, you have to take time and call into a hotline and wait on the phone to get help with anything. Online customer support was a popular request.

•Payment confirmation is confusing and users sometimes do not know if their payment went through or not.

Strategy

After conducting the user questionnaires I set out to determine the app structure and to figure out the most effective and least complicated architecture possible.

Site Map

I wanted to focus on the main few features that every user will use regardless of their background; the ‘sign up’, ‘log in’, and ‘pay bill’ pages. After the main features, everything else needed to be consolidated and easy to find and intuitive.

IDEATE

Once I had a general structure, I moved on to creating wireframes. I kept this very minimalistic and barebones so that I could change things in the future before the final screens if needed.

Style Guide

Gotham is a geometric sans-serif typeface family with letterforms that were inspired by examples of architectural signs of the mid-twentieth century. It’s familiar look is easy to read for all demographics.

Color
#313EAC
#EA5743
#EBCA6B
#30ADA5

PROTOTYPING

Finally we come to the prototype screens. I used the style guide to add the final touches to everything as well as place images and icons where needed.

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