Academy Sports + Outdoors — E-commerce

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Client

Academy Sports + Outdoors

Deliverables

E-commerce experience strategy Navigation & shopping journeys Responsive website UX & UI design

Year

2018

Role

Global Creative Director, Experience Design

Modernising Academy Sports + Outdoors’ online shopping experience across a diverse product range. I co-led the global design collaboration with my counterpart in Austin, balancing simpler customer journeys and a modern interface with the constraints of the existing commerce platform.

What I did

I co-led the engagement with my design counterpart in Austin, bringing our teams together around a shared direction for the shopping experience. Our goal was to help customers find and purchase products in fewer steps, while supporting Academy’s broad catalogue and opportunities to discover related products. I guided experience quality and design trade-offs alongside my counterpart, balancing customer needs with backend limitations. Our teams developed the detailed journeys and interface designs. We delivered a modern e-commerce experience that was positively received by the client and customers. The engagement grew from a website redesign into a broader digital transformation programme as the client recognised further opportunities for the business.