UX/UI DESIGN

MoveTo App — Rearchitecting Discovery to Drive Lead-Agent Conversations

COMPANY

Real Geeks

ROLE

Lead Designer

EXPERTISE

UX/UI Design

YEAR

2025

The Opportunity

The Opportunity

Moving, touring homes, and evaluating financing should happen in a single, confident journey — but the interface buried the most important actions.

Users were overlooking key CTAs like Schedule a Tour, Contact Agent, and engagement with financial tools like the mortgage/equity calculator was near-invisible. Years of roadmap stagnation had created a product most users didn’t know existed, and as a result:

  • Usage analytics were flat

  • Sessions were short, passive, and low-intent

  • Core actions weren’t being triggered

The business risk was clear:

Missed CTA engagement = fewer lead-agent conversations = lost opportunity for activation and conversion.

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The Challenge

The Challenge

This wasn’t a primary roadmap investment — the goal was to unlock maximum behavioral impact with minimal resources, while avoiding a common design trap: too many equal-weight CTAs fighting for attention.

The biggest risks:

  • Overloading the UI with too many calls-to-action

  • Users losing clarity on what matters most

  • Creating visual noise instead of unlocking engagement

Design Hypothesis

Design Hypothesis

When primary actions are visually prioritized and contextualized in a narrative UX, users will take action earlier, hesitate less, and explore deeper — driving measurable increases in engagement and intention.

To test this, I focused on:

  • Hierarchy before quantity

  • Behavior triggers over visual clutter

  • Confidence and clarity over new feature sprawl

  • IMPROVED LISTING PAGE

    The modern, clean layout showcases high-quality images, prominent action buttons, and essential information at a glance

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  • hide homes with ease

    Quickly hide homes at the click of a button. Didn't mean to hide a home? Easily undo the action with the helpful toast tab

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  • COLLAPSIBLE PROPERTY INFO

    The property detail card can be collapsed with one intuitive swipe- allowing you to view more of the home you want to see

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  • IMPROVED LISTING PAGE

    The modern, clean layout showcases high-quality images, prominent action buttons, and essential information at a glance

    Weather app image
  • hide homes with ease

    Quickly hide homes at the click of a button. Didn't mean to hide a home? Easily undo the action with the helpful toast tab

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  • COLLAPSIBLE PROPERTY INFO

    The property detail card can be collapsed with one intuitive swipe- allowing you to view more of the home you want to see

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Design Strategy & Key Decisions

Design Strategy & Key Decisions

1. Promote primary CTAs visually

Bring tour scheduling and agent contact into the natural user journey instead of buried menus.

Tradeoff: Fewer CTAs, clearer intent → Less initial feature exposure, but stronger action rates.

2. Surface financial tools with context

Users don’t click calculators — they click confidence. The calculator needed narrative framing and placement, not just visibility.

Tradeoff: Added “utility moments” into the discovery journey → Increased screen elements, but only when tied to user context.

3. Prioritize and de-emphasize secondary actions

I limited competing actions and used visual hierarchy, proximity, and framing to make the product feel like one guided experience instead of multiple loose sprints.

Tradeoff: More minimalist visual canvas → but deeper storytelling and structured sections.

Process

Process

Step 1 — User insights
At the Real Growth Summit, we spoke directly to learners and leads. Many had no awareness of the product at all, confirming this was both a discovery and trust problem, not just visual design.

Step 2 — IA & flow mapping
I redesigned the hierarchy using core information architecture principles:

  • Actions grouped by intent

  • Primary paths made linear and visible

  • Utility features placed at decision moments

  • Cognitive load intentionally reduced

Step 3 — Interaction prototype
Built and iterated a clickable, guided prototype in Figma that modeled hesitation points, flow clarity, and intention.

Step 4 — Strategic CTA framing
Designed CTA placement so users understood:

  • What to click first

  • Why it mattered

  • What happens next

  • How it benefits them

This maintained a clean, minimalist UI while delivering a story-driven architecture.

Outcomes

Outcomes

The redesigned experience launched to real customers on March 10, ahead of formal marketing — and the buffer stream design bet paid off.

Compared to baseline engagement:

  • Active users increased 368%

  • Session duration increased 97.5%

  • Views per user grew 151%

  • Interaction events increased 874%

  • User engagement per session became 3.7x denser

Design didn’t just make the buttons bigger — it made the journey clearer, the product discoverable, and outcomes actionable.

Key Takeaway

Key Takeaway

A design sprint can uncover possibilities — but product designers who get hired evolve them into systems that ship, iterate, and drive outcomes.

Here, I balanced a minimalist interface with confident narrative UX framing, creating measurable impact without over-designing.