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Gojek · GoMart · H1 2021

What is GoMart?

GoMart is Gojek's instant grocery service — order from supermarkets and local stores across Indonesian cities and get hand-picked groceries delivered to your door.

Alfamart, Lotte Mart, Sayurbox, Watsons and more — with dedicated shoppers preparing orders in-store and drivers fulfilling last-mile delivery inside the Gojek super-app.

or Use · Space
GoMart instant grocery inside the Gojek super-app

GoMart · Consumer Journey

What I did at GoMart

As a Product Designer lead, I led discovery and conversion design — facilitating Studio Accelerator sprints, desk-research synthesis, and cross-functional alignment between Search & Reco, Reliability, and Brand.

GoMart team structure and Consumer Journey pod placement

Case study · GoMart

Routine Grocery Discovery

How might we help competent shoppers discover, trust, and routinely use GoMart?

Anchored on KR 2.5 — moving visit-to-book from 14% to 25% — through a Studio Accelerator sprint that turned funnel data and brand strategy into a portfolio of bets: bottom navigation as the structural unlock, plus order-tracking & chat and onboarding stories alongside.

H1 2021 · 6 months · On Production
GoMart character illustration

Decorative recording of the shipped GoMart app showing bottom navigation and browse flows.

Live Miro board from Studio Accelerator — team note-taking on keywords, challenges, and solutions during lightning talks

Way of working

The Studio Accelerator

This case study runs inside Gojek's Studio Accelerator — a 4-week, cross-functional sprint format for tactical product bets. GoMart discovery was sponsored by C-level Deciders and run by design, research, engineering, and marketing working as one dream team.

My role: facilitate problem framing, synthesise desk research into session inputs, and run persona brainstorms that turned Brand Key pillars into testable bets — not one solution, but a set of parallel tracks we could ship at different speeds.

Engagement plan · 4 weeks

Session 1 · Understand the problem

Lightning talks + live Miro note-taking

North star, funnel data, Aug 2020 sprint learnings, Nation research, GoFood precedent

Session 2 · Define the questions

Team brainstorm by persona × pillar

6 teams, 3 HMW challenges, dot-voted ideas

Session 3 · Design experiments

Roadmap for validation

Turn prioritised bets into a phased build & validation plan

Context · Business

The bet we had to win

H1 2021 north star: 2M monthly transactions by June. Within that, Consumer Journey owned one critical reliability KR — visit-to-book conversion from 14% → 25%.

GoMart had to shift from ad-hoc efficiency shopping to routine competent grocery — planners who buy weekly essentials, not one-off emergency orders. Discovery was the leak; the Studio produced multiple bets to close it.

Primary metric

14% → 25%

Visit-to-book conversion (KR 2.5)

BCR target

>88%

Booking completion rate

Supermarket COs

10%→40%

Routine-buy acquisition

Fill rate

>95%

Order reliability

CSAT baseline

92%

Post-order T2B, Feb 2021

BCR, Supermarket COs, and Fill rate were guardrail KRs owned by sibling pods (Reliability, Merchant Ops) running in parallel — this case study follows KR 2.5, the discovery & conversion bet Consumer Journey owned directly.

GoMart Brand Key — Competent Consumers, effortless grocery shopping

Strategy · Nation brand workshop, March 2021

Who we design for

Nation, our brand research partner, distilled three shopper personas from a 2-day workshop — each chasing "competence" in groceries a different way. Click a persona to explore:

Where GoMart plays

Leisure
30% of occasions
Competence
47% · the goal
Indulgence
13% of occasions
Efficiency
10% · heartland today

GoMart's heartland was ad-hoc Efficiency. The brand bet was to expand into routine Competence — the space these three personas represent.

Nation's synthesis: the Brand Key

Competent Consumers (expert planners, 25–40, SEC AB) — brand essence "Effortless grocery shopping," delivered through 3 pillars that shaped every later Studio HMW: Autonomous platform, Effective communication, Maximized value.

Discovery · Solo desk research, ahead of Session 1

The funnel was leaking before booking

I independently mapped the funnel end-to-end — Gojek home → GoMart home → search → merchant → cart — to give Session 1 a shared starting point: ~41% dropped before GoMart home, ~52% from search to add, and merchant pages lost ~50%.

Desk-research flow analysis — Discovery to Consideration journey across Gojek home, GoMart home, search, merchant, and cart

Studio Accelerator · Session 2

Brainstorm to prioritised bets

Dot-voting surfaced dozens of ideas across 3 HMW challenges and 6 persona teams. We committed to three parallel tracks — each mapped to a different beat of the HMW: discover, trust, and routinely use.

Discover · bottom nav Trust · order-tracking & chat Discover + trust · onboarding stories

Session 2 dot-votes

7

Bulk shopping-list from search

6

Quality / reviews

6

First-order hooks

5

Gojek-data personalisation

Pick

Intro UX & onboarding stories

Top votes (7–5★) folded into Solution 1 as dedicated bottom-nav tabs. Intro UX became Solution 3 (team pick, not dot-voted). Order-tracking & chat ran in parallel from service blueprint gaps — not a Session 2 vote.

Session 3 turned these bets into a phased design-and-validate roadmap — the next slides follow bottom navigation from research through ship.

What we committed to

Solution 1 · Key

Bottom nav → New UI Architecture

  • Bottom nav — redesigned home, search, merchant spotlight, phased tab rollout

Lowest vote (1★). Highest structural leverage — the only idea that could house the top-voted features as tabs.

Solution 2 · Secondary

Order-tracking widget & chat

  • Order-tracking & chat — shopper/driver comms from homepage widget and in-flow modal

Solution 3 · Quick execution

Onboarding stories

  • Onboarding stories — full-screen value prop before the cluttered home

Solution 1 · Key · Design & Validate

Bottom navigation IA redesign

Navbar Needs Exploration · R&I · June 2021

Not an experiment — a proven pattern. GoFood had already shipped this exact move: −3.7% time-to-book, +23% clicks, 2× reorder-page traffic, and 70% of new GoMart shoppers already knew it.

Why a navbar, once hygiene is fixed

Poor search relevance was persistent across studies (Mar–Jun 2021) — fix content discovery first, then let the navbar be the silver bullet for everything else.

  • Adds visible structure to overcrowded content
  • Opens space to showcase existing and new features
  • Simplifies the ineffective back-and-forth navigation in-app

That confidence became a dedicated navbar-needs study — three phased releases, one taken into testing next.

What shoppers told us

"I can roam more freely in the app, like e-commerce. Right now it's very much choose merchant → choose items → checkout only."

— Athalia, Mature user · earlier research, Dovetail repository

Solution 1 · Key · Three phased releases, one tested

From MVP to the concept we tested

I designed three progressively richer releases before this went to research — each one a hypothesis about what the navbar needed to solve. Only the most complete release went into the June 2021 concept-testing study with 6 IDIs.

Release 1 wireframe — Explore, Search, My Orders tabs with reorder-from-history flow

Release 1 · MVP

Explore · Search · My Orders

Hypothesis: promoting order history to its own tab — with a one-tap "Order again" that rebuilds the cart — will lift reorder rate for routine shoppers.

Desk research had flagged low visibility for the reorder widget and past-purchase section.

Release 2 wireframe — adds a dedicated Merchant tab to Explore, Search, My Orders

Release 2 · +Merchant

Explore · Merchant · Search · My Orders

Hypothesis: giving Merchant its own destination — store grouping, branches, categories — will cut the back-and-forth between stores.

Targets the ~50% merchant-page drop-off flagged in desk research.

Release 3 wireframe — full 5-tab concept: Explore, Merchant, Search, Promo, My Orders — the version taken into concept testing

Release 3 · +Promo

Explore · Merchant · Search · Promo · My Orders

Hypothesis: consolidating deal content into one destination will lift engagement for deal-driven shoppers — addressing the "inefficient deal browsing" and low "Deals of the Day" visibility research flagged.

→ Taken into concept testing · 6 IDIs, June 2021

One hypothesis from this release didn't hold up: a dedicated Search tab. Testing disproved it — refinements on the next slide.

Solution 1 · Key · Design & Validate · Concept testing · June 2021 · 6 IDIs

What 6 IDIs told us about Release 3

We walked participants through the full 5-tab wireframe from the previous slide — Explore, Merchant, Search, Promo, and My Orders — and tagged expectations, delights, and pains per menu.

What held up

  • Merchant — add branch selection, ratings, delivery fee upfront
  • Promo — customers want membership & loyalty content, not just discounts
  • Order — merge ongoing/past into one page instead of tabs

Explore kept its name (GoFood precedent); search bar + recs added to the homepage.

Before build · Discoverability

Coachmark/tutorial became mandatory — no participant recognised the bottom nav without prompting.

Search stayed on Explore, not as a tab — matching GoFood behaviour and what participants already expected from the homepage.

Solution 1 · Key · From research to visual design

The structure held in research — so I designed for it

Bottom navigation wasn't a leap of faith. GoFood had proven the pattern, 6 IDIs validated Release 3, and the same five-tab IA carried straight into visual design.

Visually: wireframe placeholders became GoMart's brand system — green accents, photography, real merchant storefronts, and product-led promo cards. Structure unchanged; fidelity upgraded.

Drag to compare wireframe and visual design

Shipped · Impact

From Studio bets to production

Bottom navigation shipped across Indonesian cities on the H1 Consumer Journey roadmap — the structural bet from Session 2. Order-tracking & chat and onboarding stories followed as parallel quick wins.

Directional leading indicators from the rollout window; KR 2.5 close-out wasn't part of the record referenced here.

Business context at sprint start · April 2021

Target · KR 2.5

14→25%

Visit-to-book conversion — the north star Consumer Journey owned for H1 2021

905k

Monthly checkout orders when the Studio sprint kicked off · internal growth decks

Highlight · Solution 2 · Trust · Effective Communication

Order-tracking widget & chat

Trust · mid-order

A parallel Studio bet on trust after booking. During an active order, consumers chat with both shopper and driver — from the Gojek homepage track widget, Chat tab, or an in-flow modal. Born from service blueprint gaps: no customer–shopper chat, verbal consent only.

GoMart order-tracking widget and shopper/driver chat flow

Highlight · Solution 3 · Discover · Maximized Value

Onboarding stories

Discover · first visit

The fastest bet to ship from the same brainstorm — full-screen story cards that explain value before a cluttered home: choose your store, search across stores, hand-picked by shoppers, instant delivery.

Full-screen story cards with animated entry and exit transitions for first-time GoMart users.

Fin

Thanks for watching.

Thanks for your time — whether you explored this on your own or we went through it together. I'd love to connect.

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