MyMove Case Study

MyMove Case Study

Logo with orange circle and the text 'My Move' in black and white
Mobile app screen for 'MyMove' with options to sign up via Google, Apple, or Email, featuring a background photo of two people engaged in conversation.
A smartphone screen showing a to-do list app with sections for inbox, today, upcoming, moves, supplies, and goals. The interface has icons at the bottom for home, tasks, checkmark, messages, and profile, with a highlighted checkmark icon in the center.

Product: Responsive Site

Duration: 2 Months

Role: UX/UI Designer

MyMove is a responsive site designed to help users feel ready and prepared to move – whether local, cross country, with or without children, and more. By creating interactive, professionally developed moving checklists synced straight to your personal calendar, MyMove is designed to increase affordability, reduce stress, and help users have the space and clarity to enjoy their next adventure every step of the way.

Moving should be about the Excitement of your next adventure, Not stressing the details

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A man with long dark hair and a beard speaking to a woman with curly red hair indoors. The woman is sitting on a bed, holding a tablet, and the man is standing beside her. There is a large partially packed suitcase and some clothes on the bed.

I personally love moving and the thrill of new opportunity it brings. However, it is objectively stressful.

The general consensus between personal experience and User Research being the following:

It’s stressful, overwhelming, and expensive

People currently have to spread planning a move across multiple apps and tools

Moving always takes longer than users imagine, they typically feel like they are “forgetting something”

Unforeseen issues cost them unecessary money

Smartphone displaying a moving service app called MyMove with a sign-up button and an image of two people sitting among moving boxes.
Screenshot of a mobile app interface with a sidebar menu showing inbox, today, upcoming, and sections for moves, supplies, and goals, with navigation icons at the bottom.

Introducing: MyMove

Smartphone displaying an app called "My Move" with a tagline "All your moving needs in one place" and a "Sign up now" button. The screen shows a photo of two people, a man and a woman, sitting together with moving boxes in the background.

The solution for disjointed moving prep and execution: by combining pro-mover created checklists, productivity tracking, community collaboration with other movers, and the ability to sync all of this to your personal calendar; MyMove allows users to have peace of mind and clarity of spending by knowing their move is on track, all from one convenient touch point.

My Process

STARTING AT THE BEGINNING, I ASKED MYSELF, how is there not a solution for Moving yet?

While analyzing the apps and sites I used when moving, I began to notice that the apps did bits and pieces of the planning process, but none provided the full service of organizing, planning, and executing a move (or if they did, they had terrible reviews and a terrifyingly out-of-date interface).

The opportunity I saw was the ability to combine all of those needs into one fluid experience that saved time & money while reducing overwhelm.

I wanted to gain a better understanding of the potential opportunity as well as target users for the app. I conducted interviews with young professionals in their 20’s and 30’s, with and without kids, who admitted to finding moving “overwhelming or stressful”. I focused my questions around how they planned their past moves as well as their likes and frustrations around the planning + moving process.

A professional resume or profile for Will Nilson, a young lawyer, with a photo of him sitting at a table in a kitchen, reading a newspaper, with a teapot and cup in front of him.
A resume featuring a young woman with long wavy red hair, wearing a beige coat and black top, standing outdoors with trees in the background.
A document page featuring a profile of Brenna Windham, a nurse and mother, with a portrait of her wearing a white medical coat and stethoscope. The page includes sections for her bio, a quote, needs and goals, frustrations and pain points, brand associations, and software/apps.

There’s a Market for that

A professional resume or portfolio page featuring a photograph of a man sitting at a table in a kitchen, alongside sections for biography, quote, needs and goals, frustrations and pain points, brand associations, and software and apps. The man is smiling, wearing a brown shirt over a white turtleneck, with a teapot and cup on the table.

Through my interviews, I found that there were three types of movers:

Will, the hyper-organized mover looking for good help

Payton, the thrifty free-spirt seeking to save money

Brenna the young mom who wants to KNOW she is prepared for her move

An interesting, universal insight being, every single interviewee used the exact same words to describe moving: Stressful and Exciting

A profile sheet for Payton Groenwald, a social media manager, featuring her photo, archetype, bio, quote, needs and goals, frustrations and pain points, brand associations, and software and apps.

The main features and functions interviewees highlighted as being important in their moving process were:

1. A vendor marketplace with an accurate rating method

2. Checklists and productivity trackers + calendar sync.

3. Being able to previsualize their furniture in a new space

4. A way to categorize and log packed items

Profile sheet with a photo of a smiling woman wearing medical scrubs and a stethoscope, and details about her including her name, archetype as a hip parent, bio, quote, needs and goals, frustrations and pain points, brand associations, and software and apps.

Introducing, MyMove

BY REMOVING THE TIME-CONSUMING APP-HOPPING AND coordination, YOU GET BACK the time you have left to enjoy where you are and the people you have now.

It became clear that in order to implement any of these features effectively, it would be important to prioritize and focus.

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For the core experience, I chose to focus on Brenna and Payton’s personas by designing and implementing the Checklists feature with the Productivity and Calendar Sync functions.

This would support both affordability, efficiency, and clarity around the moving process, whereas Logging and Categorizing Items or Previsualizing the New Space would not be as helpful as a stand alone function, and a Vendor Marketplace would only support those looking to hire vendors.

Focusing on Productivity for the sake of affordability would create the greatest value for the most users.

Feedback gathered from my rounds of user testing included:

Onboarding steps were too long and users felt like they would prefer to wait to be presented with a paid plan


Users wanted the option to skip straight to the value vs. being forced to set up a profile initially


Users continue to feel this is a valuable product and can see how it would fit into their lives and improve their moving process

Screenshots of a mobile app called MyMove, showing the sign-up confirmation screen and the app's home page with a welcome message, tips, and upgrade option.

With the information gathered from usability tests, I created a second iteration that offered users an expedited sign up process, the ability to skip straight to the value add (aka, Checklists), and to wait until after the sign up process to present users with the paid plan.

In addition, although MyMove does offer a single experience to plan the process leading up to a move, users still feel that Logging and Categorizing + Previsualizing their New Space would be particularly useful parts of the app. Because of this, I would explore adding these functions in later site updates to offer users an even more fluid moving experience.

IF I WAS Payton, I WOULD WANT TO HIT A FEW BUTTONS AND know my move was ready to go, that would be my ideal movE

Flowchart illustrating a checklist process for moving, with decision points for confirming the checklist, syncing to calendar, and choosing between Google or Apple, ending at a checklist on the home page.

Within the two month timeframe, I chose to focus on Payton and Brenna’s user flows as my initial personas. With the assumption that users like Payton and Brenna who are more focused on organization, prioritization, and saving money. These users have more opportunity to utilize the core feature of the app: Checklists.

A series of mobile app screens showing a personal moving planner app called 'MyMove'. The screens include options for signing up via Google, Apple, or email, editing a profile picture, entering bio, location, and move details, selecting move tags, creating a move event with calendar integration, and viewing a schedule with tasks and reminders for a move in January 2023.

Mymove’s brand captures the Excitement and delight of Grounded change.

With the layout from the wireframes, I began to build MyMove’s brand. I built a style guide that encompassed MyMove's modern aesthetic accented with bright colors – the excitement of orange yet calming, grounded nature of teal – and a clean, refined typeface.

Based on the style guide, I created high fidelity mockups for the screens and built a Figma prototype to capture the user journeys through the app and walk the user through key flows.

Screenshots of a mobile app for managing moves, displaying options to select move types, pick a date on a calendar, and add move details to calendar apps, with a navigation bar at the bottom and icons for home, list, checkmarks, messages, and user profile.