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Stage Door Dance

Enhancing User Satisfaction, Usability, and Completion Rate for Dance Studio Website

Role UX/UI Designer, Researcher
Timeline 4 weeks
Tools Figma, Maze, Miri, Mixed method research
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Project Overview

Stage Door Dance is a premier dance studio offering classes for all ages and skill levels. The studio needed a website redesign to improve user experience, increase class registrations, and better showcase their vibrant community and talented instructors.
I led the UX redesign of the Stagedoor Dance platform to improve navigation, modernize the experience, and support clearer class discovery and registration for dancers and parents.

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My Role & Focus

  • UX Research & Heuristic Evaluation
  • Information Architecture & Card Sorting
  • Wireframing & Interaction Design
  • Prototyping & Usability Testing
  • Visual Refresh & Component Design
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The Challenge

The existing website faced several critical issues founded after team sessions heuristic evaluation and in depth interviewing with users:

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After doing Thematic analysis we could list all issues must address

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Discovery & Definition

Heuristic evaluation (35+ usability issues identified)
Competitive benchmarking of dance & fitness platforms
Surveys (58 responses) + interviews (12 users)
Affinity mapping → pain-point clusters

then defining the persona and user stiryboard to validate frictions and find alternatives

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Key issues

Complex navigation
Unclear hierarchy
Repetitive content
Missing feedback during registration

Next we could understand user need more and deeper in one journey (free session class) flow

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Ideation and Design

moving one step forward to revising the flow with Open card sorting and re-structured information architecture and testing new ideas

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Mid-fidelity wireframes in Figma

Designing interactive prototypes to test new navigation and layout concepts and Clear CTA hierarchy & visual grouping

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Prototyping & Testing

Two rounds of remote usability testing (Maze):

100% task completion for new registration flow
83% rated filtering “easy” or “very easy”
Task time improved by ~40%
Satisfaction: 4.6 / 5

Deliverables included prototype, component library, annotated flows, and responsive UI.

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Outcome after redesign

  • Simplified navigation and class discovery
  • Reduced friction across registration tasks
  • Improved clarity through structure, labeling, and feedback

Work established a scalable IA and research-led redesign foundation for future development.

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Impact & Results reported from product owners

62%

Increase in registration completion rate

-12%

Reduction in bounce rate

2x

Increase in trial class sign-ups

"The new website has transformed how we connect with our community. We've seen a significant increase in new student registrations and parents love how easy it is to find information."

— Studio Owner, Stage Door Dance