Redesigning Bykea’s ride-booking flow so it asks for one decision at a time instead of five at once.

Personal Project
Bykea
Role
Product Designer - Redesign
Timeline
July 2026

Bykea booking flow redesign collage: three phone screens showing the home menu, map pickup, and ride confirmation with fare comparison, titled "Making booking a cognitive-load-free experience"
  1. The Problem

    Six decisions on one screen

    Bykea's home screen asked riders for pickup, destination, vehicle, price, payment, and confirm all at once, forcing six decisions before a single tap of progress. New users stalled before they started.

  2. The Move

    One decision per screen

    Traded one dense screen for a sequence of three simple ones. Every screen resolves exactly one decision, in the order a rider actually makes it.

  3. The Mechanism

    Auto-fill + frequent places

    Pickup auto-fills from GPS. Home and Work surface at one tap for frequent destinations. Vehicle and price get their own screens instead of competing for the same real estate.

  4. The Outcome

    PKR 876M-1.75B modeled uplift

    5-10% booking-completion lift against Bykea's PKR 18.40B-19.27B annual revenue base translates to PKR 876M-1.75B in illustrative additional revenue. Illustrative, not measured.

Skip The Redundant Confirmation

Pickup location fills in automatically from the phone’s GPS, the same way every other app already works. The trade-off is a rare case where the location is slightly off, against removing a needless extra tap for nearly every other ride.

One-Tap Frequent Places

Home, work, and a handful of regular spots surface for a single tap instead of a fresh address search every time. This only helps repeat trips, not first-time addresses, but most bookings are repeat trips, so it is a bet worth making.

One Decision Per Screen

The original flow crammed six decisions onto one screen to save taps. The redesign trades that for three simpler screens: more screens to move through, but each one only asks for what matters at that moment, so riders stop stalling before they even start.

  • FigmaEvery screen and the design system, hand-built solo
  • MobbinPattern reference for ride-hailing app flows
  • DribbbleVisual reference for card and dark-mode palettes

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