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Mobile Grocery App · UX/UI Case Study

Grovia

A smoother way to shop for everyday groceries.

Grovia is a mobile grocery shopping experience designed around real shopping habits — discovering products, repeating familiar orders, completing checkout, and following delivery in one continuous flow.

RoleUX/UI Designer
ScopeResearch, UX Strategy, Wireframes, UI, Prototyping
PlatformMobile Application
ToolFigma

Grocery shopping is repetitive. The experience should not be.

People often buy the same products week after week, yet many shopping apps make them search, select, and rebuild every order from the beginning. Grovia explores how a familiar household task can become faster, calmer, and easier to repeat.

“Less time rebuilding lists. More time for everyday life.”

The project at a glance

Grovia combines product discovery, favourites, shopping history, checkout, loyalty rewards, profile management, and delivery tracking in one mobile experience.

Challenge

Reduce repeated effort across everyday grocery shopping.

Primary users

Busy, price-aware people who regularly repurchase familiar products.

Design objective

Create a clear shopping flow that supports both discovery and repetition.

Familiar task. Repeated friction.

Buying groceries is routine, but the digital journey often includes unnecessary searching, repeated decisions, and uncertainty after checkout.

01

Rebuilding the same cart

Users repeatedly search for products they already purchase regularly.

02

Remembering everything

Manual lists and memory increase the chance of forgotten items.

03

Finding meaningful offers

Promotions are useful only when they are easy to notice and understand.

04

Waiting without context

After payment, users want to know what is happening with their order.

Understanding the user

Before designing screens, I looked at the routines behind them.

Short user interviews Behavioural assumptions Competitive review Task analysis
Research simulation for a portfolio project — not verified real-world data.
Lifestyle photo of hands holding a phone with a grocery list

What the research suggested

Shopping is repetitive

Many users buy a similar group of products every week.

Memory is not a shopping tool

People forget items or rebuild lists from scratch.

Offers need context

A lower price matters only when it is visible and easy to compare.

Delivery creates uncertainty

After checkout, users want clear and timely progress information.

Portrait of Elena, a friendly working parent persona
Primary persona

Elena · 38

Marketing manager · Household of four

“Most weeks I buy the same things. I shouldn’t have to start from zero every time.”

Goals

Shop for the household quickly, reuse familiar orders, and catch good-value offers.

Frustrations

Rebuilding lists each week, forgetting items, and unclear delivery status.

Habits

Shops once or twice a week on mobile and saves favourites.

Scenario

Between meetings, she reorders the weekly basket and schedules an evening delivery.

Where the effort builds up

The journey showed that much of the friction happens before payment — while planning, remembering, searching, and rebuilding a familiar order.

Plan
Action Thinks about what the household needs this week. Thinking “What are we out of again?” Friction Relies on memory. Opportunity Surface previous lists.
Unsure
Search
Action Opens the app and searches product by product. Thinking “I buy these every week.” Friction Repetitive typing. Opportunity Reuse familiar orders.
Tedious
Compare
Action Checks prices and offers across items. Thinking “Is this actually a deal?” Friction Offers are easy to miss. Opportunity Clearer price hierarchy.
Cautious
Add
Action Adds items one by one to the cart. Thinking “Did I forget anything?” Friction No sense of completeness. Opportunity List-based building.
Effortful
Pay
Action Moves through checkout and payment. Thinking “How many steps are left?” Friction Unclear progress. Opportunity Visible step structure.
Tense
Wait
Action Waits for the order after paying. Thinking “Where is my order now?” Friction No status after payment. Opportunity Persistent tracking.
Anxious

A busy grocery shopper needs a faster way to rebuild recurring orders because searching for the same products every week wastes time and increases the chance of forgetting something.

How might we make repeat grocery shopping feel almost effortless?

Three principles, three interface decisions

Grovia product filters screen

Find faster

Clear categories, filters, promotions, and visual product cards reduce unnecessary searching.

Grovia shopping history screen

Repeat easily

Favourites and previous shopping lists help users begin with something familiar instead of starting again.

Grovia delivery tracking in profile

Stay informed

Order confirmation and delivery tracking reduce uncertainty after payment.

A structure built around shopping habits

Frequent actions stay within reach in the bottom navigation, while personal settings and support tools remain inside the profile area.

Grovia
Primary navigation
Home Favourites Shop History Cart
Account area
Profile Addresses Billing Payment Methods Settings Accessibility Help Centre Sign Out
Supporting flows
Login Registration Password recovery Checkout Delivery tracking

Core user flows

Core shopping flow
Home → Category → Products → Product Details → Cart → Delivery Details → Payment Method → Order Review → Order Confirmation → Delivery Tracking →
Repeat-order flow · Grovia’s defining idea
Shopping History / Favorites → Select → Load Selected → Review Cart → Checkout →

“Yesterday’s shopping list can become today’s cart without rebuilding it item by item.”

Grovia shopping history screen

Starting the design

Before adding colour and personality, I focused on structure, task order, and decision points.

Structure before decoration

The first wireframes reduced the experience to its essential actions: finding products, building a cart, reusing a list, paying, and tracking an order.

Wireframe of the Grovia home screen
Home
Wireframe of the Grovia product listing screen
Product listing
Wireframe of the Grovia shopping history screen
Shopping history
Wireframe of the Grovia checkout screen
Checkout
Early wireframe structure of the Grovia home screen
Early structure
Grovia final home screen Final interface

Testing the journey before polishing the UI

The low-fidelity prototype connected the core screens into realistic tasks, allowing the flow to be evaluated before investing in detailed visual design.

Open low-fi prototype
1 Find a product
2 Add it to favourites
3 Add products to the cart
4 Reuse a previous list
5 Complete checkout
6 Locate delivery information

Small moments of confusion revealed the biggest opportunities.

The low-fidelity prototype was tested through realistic grocery-shopping tasks. Observations and think-aloud feedback helped identify points of hesitation and unnecessary effort.

Finding 01 · Reusing a previous order

Reusing a previous order

“I found yesterday’s list, but I wasn’t sure how to put it back in my cart.”

Insight

The history screen showed past lists, but the next action was not sufficiently clear.

Design response

Added a clear selected state and a contextual “Load Selected List” action.

Finding 02 · Checkout orientation

Checkout orientation

“I know I’m checking out, but how many steps are left?”

Insight

Users needed a stronger sense of progress during checkout.

Design response

Added a visible three-step checkout indicator.

Finding 03 · Delivery visibility

Delivery visibility

“The order is confirmed. Where can I see what happens next?”

Insight

Confirmation alone did not provide enough reassurance.

Design response

Added the “Track Your Delivery” CTA and persistent delivery progress.

Finding 04 · Promotion hierarchy

Promotion hierarchy

“I saw the price, but I almost missed that it was a special offer.”

Insight

Promotion labels and price differences needed stronger hierarchy.

Design response

Strengthened the Best Price badge, sale price, and contrast.

Feedback became visible design decisions

Before Previous lists appeared as passive history records.
After Radio-button selection and “Load to Cart” action clarify reuse.
Before Checkout screens felt disconnected.
After A three-step progress indicator creates orientation.
Before Order confirmation ended the journey.
After A clear tracking CTA continues the experience.
Before Promotional information competed with the rest of the card.
After Colour, size, and placement strengthen the price hierarchy.

Fresh, friendly, and familiar

The visual language combines natural greens with warm neutral surfaces. Rounded components and generous touch areas make the interface feel approachable, while stronger accent colours help prices and promotions stand out.

Colour
Buttons & states
Add to Cart Best Price Grovia add button
Typography
Nunito Sans — clear, rounded, friendly Used across the product interface for labels, prices and body.

From routine task to connected experience

The final interface follows the complete journey — from account setup and product discovery to checkout and delivery.

Account setup

A clear beginning

Login, registration, password recovery, and email confirmation use familiar patterns and consistent guidance.

Product discovery

Find what you need

The home screen balances promotions, categories, and recent products without forcing users into a single browsing path.

Grovia home screen

Offers without searching.

Best-price promotions and recent products surface on the home screen, so a familiar basket is only a tap away.

Grovia categories screen Categories built for quick scanning
Grovia product filters screen Filters that narrow the choice
Grovia products screen Product listing at a glance
Grovia product details screen Product details before commitment
Repeat shopping

Start from something familiar

Favourites and previous shopping lists help users prepare the next order without repeating every decision.

Grovia shopping history screen

“Yesterday’s list can become today’s cart in one clear action.”

A selected radio state marks the chosen list, and a single Load to Cart control returns it to the basket — no item-by-item rebuilding.

Grovia cart screen
Checkout

One decision at a time

Checkout is divided into three focused steps, helping users understand where they are and what comes next. A three-step progress indicator stays visible throughout.

Grovia select delivery details screen Step 1 · Delivery details

Saved addresses reduce repeated typing.

Grovia choose payment method screen Step 2 · Payment method

Multiple payment methods remain easy to compare.

Grovia confirm your order screen Step 3 · Confirm order

The final review prevents accidental confirmation.

Order confirmation

Checkout is complete. Reassurance continues.

A successful payment should not leave the user wondering what happens next.

Clear confirmation, a direct Track Your Delivery next step, and no dead end.

Grovia order confirmed screen
Delivery tracking

Confidence after payment

Delivery progress remains visible across the experience, allowing users to check the current status without searching through menus.

Order ConfirmedPacked & ReadyOn the WayDelivered
Grovia home screen with delivery bar A persistent delivery bar on Home
Grovia delivery tracking in profile Full status inside the profile
Profile & control

Personal details in one place

The profile brings together loyalty points, delivery addresses, payment methods, active orders, settings, and support.

Loyalty programme Address management Payment methods Accessibility settings Active delivery status

Designed as a system, not a collection of screens

Reusable components, variables, overlays, and interactive states helped keep the prototype consistent and realistic.

Interactive buttonsFavourite toggleSelected radio statesQuantity controlsNavigation active statesCheckout progressSlide-in profile menuDelivery status changesForm interactions

Built in Figma with variables, overlays, responsive components, and realistic interactive forms.

Clear for more people

Accessibility was treated as part of everyday usability, not as a final visual adjustment. Designed with WCAG principles in mind.

Readable contrast

Text, prices, and controls maintain clear separation from their backgrounds.

Generous touch targets

Primary controls and navigation items are designed for comfortable mobile interaction.

Visible states

Selected, active, favourite, progress, and error states are communicated visually.

Clear language

Buttons and forms use direct labels that describe the expected action.

What the final experience achieves

Faster repeat orders

Favourites and shopping history reduce repeated searching.

Clearer checkout

A visible step structure supports confident decisions.

More transparent delivery

Confirmation and tracking keep users informed after payment.

Grovia turns a repeated household task into a calmer, more predictable routine.

This project helped me explore how thoughtful navigation, reusable shopping lists, clear feedback, and realistic prototyping can make an everyday product feel genuinely helpful.