Premier Bays

Bringing annual parking into the PayByPhone app for UK motorists.

PayByPhone · 2020Product Design · UX Research · Interaction Design

Challenge

A missing feature was keeping a legacy platform alive.

PayByPhone had acquired Dash, a UK parking platform that was costly to maintain. Premier Bays, typically an annual parking ticket for a specific space, was the remaining functionality that couldn't be handled in the PayByPhone app. The business needed to migrate the experience while maintaining its strategic partnership with NCP.

Reduce costsRetire reliance on the legacy Dash platform
Maintain partnershipSupport NCP's Premier Bays offering

Goal

Bring annual parking into PayByPhone without losing existing usage.

BUSINESS200transactions per year
USER68+SUS score
 78%+task success

Annual parking worked differently from everyday parking.

Through research, I looked at how motorists understood and accessed Premier Bays, including the terminology they expected and how they would manage an annual ticket.

ConsistencyAlign terminology across parking signs and digital experiences.
Reduce stepsMake annual parking easier to find and renew.
Easy to useLet motorists purchase and manage their ticket without leaving the app.

One experience to purchase and manage annual parking.

I designed the core Premier Bays experience around four key tasks:

  • Purchase an annual ticket
  • View an active ticket
  • Manage assigned vehicles
  • Renew an annual ticket

The purchase flow brought location search, bay selection, vehicle selection, payment, and ticket details into the existing PayByPhone experience.

Testing surfaced an expectation to manage vehicles.

During usability testing, participants initially struggled to find where they could edit vehicles, and most expected to add or remove vehicles directly from their annual ticket.

FINDING“Where do I edit my vehicles?”
EXPLORATIONManage vehicles directly from the annual ticket
DECISIONDeprioritize for launch based on effort vs. value

Annual parking, now inside PayByPhone.

Motorists could purchase and manage an annual ticket for a specific parking space directly in the app, bringing Premier Bays into the core PayByPhone experience.

BUSINESS212Premier Bay transactions
Target: 200+
 +12%YoY transactions
USER91SUS score
Target: 68+
 94%task success
Target: 78+
Data from Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
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