UX Strategy & Enrollment Flow Redesign to Accelerate Clean Energy Adoption
CleanChoice Energy offers a suite of clean power plans—but their enrollment experience was slowing users down. Despite strong mission alignment, confusing content architecture and outdated page structures were limiting conversions across key campaigns.
I led the UX strategy to uncover friction points, restructure the enrollment flow, and design a more intuitive, modular experience that supported faster decision-making and greater trust.
The result wasn’t just a refreshed interface—it was a strategic shift that made clean energy feel simple, credible, and accessible.
The Challenge: Friction-Filled Enrollment and Messaging Gaps
CleanChoice Energy needed a UX strategy that could simplify enrollment and build trust in a competitive renewable energy market. Despite strong values and offerings, the site struggled to guide users toward confident sign-up.
Key issues included:
Unclear Plan Information – Users didn’t fully understand what they were signing up for or why it mattered.
Overwhelming Enrollment Flow – A fragmented process created drop-off points and eroded trust.
Outdated Brand Experience – The visual design failed to reflect CleanChoice’s mission-driven ethos or position it as a modern energy alternative.
The project required a research-driven redesign to deliver clarity, streamline enrollment, and position CleanChoice as the trustworthy, accessible choice for renewable energy.
My Role in This Project
I led UX strategy, research, information architecture, and visual design for this high-impact redesign—restructuring the site to align with user needs and business goals, while designing a modern interface that supported enrollment and built trust.
Working in close collaboration with the VP of Design, I had strong ownership over both the UX process and the final visuals. I conducted user research and testing, redesigned complex enrollment workflows, and created reusable patterns that elevated the brand’s credibility across the site.
While this case study highlights my design leadership, it was a highly collaborative effort—built alongside a skilled cross-functional team listed further below.
This early design brief helped align business goals, user outcomes, and interface priorities across teams—providing a shared North Star before implementation began.
Designing for — Climate-Conscious Customers Seeking Simplicity
CleanChoice Energy’s website had to do more than explain clean energy—it had to convert curiosity into action. For many potential users, the desire to make environmentally responsible choices was strong, but confidence in the process lagged behind. Our UX strategy had to bridge that gap with clarity, transparency, and ease.
Key user insights included:
Conscious-but-Cautious Renters: These users cared deeply about sustainability but felt overwhelmed by energy choices. They needed a quick, jargon-free explanation of how CleanChoice works, reassurance about costs, and enrollment steps that didn’t require phone calls or paperwork.
Values-Aligned Homeowners: Motivated by climate goals and local impact, these users wanted to understand the real-world benefits of switching—and needed a site experience that felt modern, trustworthy, and aligned with their identity.
We worked from a flexible user persona, Marcus, to keep the experience grounded in lived behavior: limited time, high curiosity, and a desire to do good without unnecessary complexity.
The Solution: A Research-Led UX Strategy to Simplify Enrollment
To create a seamless and scalable multi-product platform, I developed a research-driven UX strategy that focused on clarity, discoverability, and conversion optimization.
🔍 User Research & Competitive Analysis – Conducted user interviews and benchmarked competitors to identify friction points in the customer journey.
🗂️ Optimized Information Architecture – Restructured site navigation to improve product discoverability and simplify plan comparisons.
⚡ Streamlined Enrollment Flow – Reduced friction by optimizing form fields and integrating automation for faster sign-ups.
🎨 High-Fidelity Prototyping & UX Testing – Iterated on wireframes based on usability testing insights to ensure an intuitive flow.
These improvements transformed CleanChoice Energy’s platform into a user-friendly, conversion-optimized experience that supports both current offerings and future growth.
The Outcome: Increased Conversions & Streamlined Enrollment
This wasn’t just a redesign—it was a strategic overhaul that made it easier for users to choose clean energy, while giving internal teams a platform they could trust and scale.
✅ 20% Increase in User Satisfaction — Clearer product differentiation and intuitive navigation helped users feel more confident about their choices.
✅ Smoother, Faster Enrollment — A reworked flow reduced friction and drop-off, making it easier for users to complete sign-up with minimal confusion.
✅ Better Understanding, Bigger Impact — Improved content clarity helped users understand the environmental impact of their choices—boosting engagement and trust.
✅ Scalable Foundation for Growth — The flexible UX framework supports future energy offerings and evolving regulatory requirements without starting from scratch.
My Involvement & Actions
“Our new homepage and Clean Electricity product page are not only visually elevated—they’re also significantly faster. Page speed alone jumped from 64 to 98, which is a huge improvement for usability and retention.”
“The new site looks and performs amazing. I popped on there early this morning, having forgotten about the update, and gasped at my desk at how great it looked!”
Project Team
This project was a cross-functional collaboration across UX, product design, marketing, and engineering, ensuring a seamless and scalable platform for renewable energy adoption.
Scope & Constraints
Scope:
This project focused on rapidly improving CleanChoice Energy’s enrollment experience in advance of a major marketing push. I partnered closely with the VP of Design to audit content, identify journey pain points, and craft UX updates that would increase clarity, trust, and conversion—without requiring backend changes.
Our aim was to create a credible, emotionally resonant experience that positioned CleanChoice as not just the right option, but the easy one.
Constraints:
Accelerated Timeline: The project ran on a tight schedule to support upcoming ad campaigns, requiring fast alignment across design, marketing, and executive stakeholders.
No Backend Changes: Due to technical limitations, most improvements had to work within the existing frontend structure—demanding precise, high-impact design choices.
Legacy Platform Constraints: Existing architecture limited layout flexibility, so we focused on content hierarchy, microcopy, and visual consistency to guide users more effectively.
Conversion Pressure: Despite strong values alignment, enrollment was underperforming—so UX decisions had to do heavy lifting without overwhelming users with information or friction.
Lessons Learned
Through this project, I gained key insights into designing scalable digital experiences for renewable energy consumers.
Some of my biggest takeaways include:
For future enrollment platforms, I’ll prioritize continuous optimization through behavioral analytics—leveraging heatmaps, session recordings, and journey metrics to surface friction, refine decision paths, and sustain long-term conversion gains.
The Real Win
Helping users choose renewable energy with clarity and confidence—by simplifying everything behind the scenes.
Referenced Frameworks & Reading
A few resources that influenced my approach on this project:
