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Boots
Sainsbury’s
BT
Indeed
Tesco
Emaar
Post Office
Damac
DEWA
Shell
Haleon
Carrefour
The Dubai Mall
Aramtec
KAEC
Betterhomes
Federal Tax Authority
Rivoli
Sharjah

Tesco
Returns & Refunds

Giving online grocery customers full self-service control over refunds and returns — with transparency at every step.

Client
Tesco
Platforms
Mobile Tablet Desktop
Services delivered
Product Design UX Research Usability Testing Prototyping

Tesco's online customers needed a clear, self-service way to initiate, track, and complete refunds and returns — removing the uncertainty that was driving unnecessary service contacts.

The challenge

Tesco is the UK's grocery market leader with a huge ecommerce footprint. But customers struggled to track refund and return statuses, with little transparency into where their request was in the process. The uncertainty drove avoidable customer service inquiries and operational inefficiency.

Customers needed to manage the entire refunds-and-returns journey themselves, with confidence, inside their account.

Our approach

Embedded within Tesco's ecommerce team, we mapped the existing journeys to find the pain points in tracking and status visibility, then designed responsive web flows for initiating, monitoring, and completing requests.

Working across product, engineering, and customer service, we validated the designs through usability testing and iterative prototyping — then measured outcomes against business metrics.

A transparent, responsive self-service experience — letting customers initiate, track, and complete refunds and returns from any device.

The redesigned flows made status visibility the priority — customers could see exactly where their refund or return was at any moment, removing the uncertainty that previously drove them to contact support. Each step was designed responsively for mobile, tablet, and desktop and aligned with Tesco's design system.

Journey maps, wireframes, tested prototypes, and analytics dashboards gave Tesco both the customer-facing experience and the means to track its performance over time.

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A structured Discover → Define → Design → Deliver process — with feedback loops at every stage to keep user insight, business goals, and engineering feasibility aligned.

Discover
Journey mapping & customer research
Mapped the existing refunds and returns journey end-to-end using a WISMO ("Where Is My Order") research framework — identifying points of delight, pain points, and further insights from customer surveys and feedback. The consistent finding: uncertainty about status was the primary trigger for CS contact, not policy or product issues. That became the design brief.
Define
Pain point prioritisation & flow architecture
Worked with product and CS stakeholders to prioritise the highest-impact problems — status visibility, initiation friction, and edge cases like payment failures or delivery delays — then defined the information architecture and flow logic for the self-service journeys.
Design
Responsive flows within Tesco's design system
Designed progress trackers, real-time status indicators, and self-service initiation flows across mobile, tablet, and desktop — all within Tesco's design system for consistency with the wider ecommerce platform. Wireframes moved quickly into high-fidelity, iterated prototypes ready for testing.
Deliver
Usability testing, launch & measurement
Ran unmoderated usability studies via UserTesting to validate and refine before handoff. Post-launch, worked with analysts to measure outcomes — tracking CS contact reduction, resolution time, satisfaction scores, and repeat purchase behaviour against design KPIs.

A complete self-service refunds and returns platform — from initiation flows and real-time status tracking through to returns management and performance dashboards.

Self-service refund initiation
Designed the end-to-end flow for customers to raise a refund request directly within their account — reducing reliance on the call centre and giving customers control at any time, on any device.
Real-time status tracking
Designed progress bars and stop trackers — the specific mechanics that emerged from the WISMO research — so customers could see exactly where their refund or return was at any moment, removing the uncertainty that had been sending them to the phone.
Returns management journey
Designed the full returns flow — covering item selection, reason capture, and confirmation — with edge-case handling for payment failures and partial deliveries validated through usability testing before launch.
Analytics & performance dashboard
Worked with analysts to build the measurement framework post-launch — tracking CS contact volume, resolution time, satisfaction scores, and repeat purchase rate against design KPIs to prove impact over time.

Outcomes

85%
Customer adoption
85% of online returns now initiated directly through the self-service flow, reducing reliance on call centres.
32%
Support cost savings
Cut refund-related customer service calls by 32%, lowering operational costs.
25%
Process efficiency
Reduced average refund resolution time by 25% through clearer status tracking and automation.
4.6/5
Customer satisfaction
Post-launch surveys showed a 4.6/5 satisfaction score for ease of use and transparency.
18%
Repeat purchase impact
Customers who used the new returns journey were 18% more likely to place another order within 30 days.
28%
Error reduction
Decreased refund processing errors by 28% by streamlining inputs and confirmation steps.
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Projects shown include live work, pitch deliverables, and design produced as part of embedded or collaborative engagements. Some work was completed as part of a wider team. Deliverables reflect the scope and direction at the time of engagement — the live experience may have since changed, launched in a different form, or not proceeded to production. All brand assets and trademarks shown remain the property of their respective owners and are displayed here for portfolio reference only.

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