Caltech Responsive eCommerce eLearning UX Design
Caltech, a renowned private research university in California, operated an Executive and Professional Education department that relied on manual course sales conducted via email. This approach generated approximately $2.5M annually with a 1% conversion rate. Challenge Manual sales process: Time-consuming and resource-intensive. Limited scalability: Growth was constrained by the manual nature of the process. User experience: The website did not support seamless, automated course enrollment. Goal: Enhance the website’s user experience and automate course sales to drive growth. Solution Information Architecture: Removed clutter, simplified course info and sitemap. User Experience: Improved navigation, course filtering, and streamlined checkout. Automation: Implemented end-to-end automation for course sales and enrollment with Adobe Commerce, creating an integrated digital infrastructure where tools, teams, and processes work together seamlessly. Results 136% increase in active users (comparing Jan-Nov 2024 to Jan-Nov 2025). 1,311% increase in add-to-carts. 204% increase in purchases. 2.4K first-time purchases and 2.5K total purchases in 2025. $2.8M in revenue from site checkouts (individuals only; organizational sales occur outside the site and represent the larger part of the business). This transformation gave Caltech an unfair advantage, skyrocketing individual enrollments through UX/CRO.
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