Case study Cromā 2023

Omnichannel retail vision.

A three-year vision for India's leading electronics retailer. Spanning web, app, in-store, AR tools, and a new design system adopted across all Cromā design teams.

Role
Senior Product Designer
Client
Cromā
Agency
TCS Interactive
Duration
9 months
Cromā omnichannel retail
Brief

Provide the world's best omnichannel shopping experience. Connect customers to Cromā beyond the physical store.

00 Team 9 members
01 Understand context 3 months
02 Define experience principles 1 month
03 Shape the future experience 2 months
04 Development ready 3 months
My contribution
  • Redesigned the checkout flow, untangling competing bank deals and complex payment tier logic — fast-tracked into production development
  • Built a design system adopted by all Cromā design teams and partner agencies from day one
  • Played a key role in shaping hero journeys, helping define the cross-channel experiences that anchored the vision
  • Contributed across web, app, in-store and AR touchpoints throughout the programme
  • Worked closely with the motion team on vision assets and hero journey content, providing storyboards, context and creative guidance
  • Co-created weekly drop decks with the Design Director and presented work directly to Cromā stakeholders throughout the programme
Challenge

What had to change.

Changing customer behaviour

73% of customers use multiple channels during a purchase. The trust and service of the in-store experience weren't reaching the digital journeys.

Pressure from new entrants

Cheaper online options were eroding loyalty. Cromā needed reasons to choose it that price alone couldn't beat.

Audiences out of reach

Millions of younger customers and shoppers outside store catchments never met Cromā at all.

Approach

Context, system, vision.

Understand the context

Workshops, interviews and on-the-ground research across the business, customers and competitors.

  • Stakeholder workshops across category, digital and retail teams
  • Reviewed regional and global retail brands to define trends and opportunities
  • In-store research across Cromā delivery, installation and competitor experiences

Strategic foundations

Synthesised research and built the framework that would hold the vision together over time.

  • Personas and end-to-end journeys across categories
  • Experience principles to articulate a shared cross-channel vision
  • Evolved the brand into a new design system and component library

Create the vision

Generated cross-journey concepts, then refined the strongest into specific propositions across web, app and in-store.

  • Five hero journeys across web, app and in-store
  • Concept refinement and stakeholder iteration
  • Brought the vision to life via video
Solutions

Key features.

Innovative digital tools

New tools that enhance the store, and follow the customer home. A room scanner that calculates AC requirements, AR previews to visualise a new TV in your living room, and immersive AR onboarding to set the product up after it arrives.

Addressed a trust gap. Customers couldn't commit to large electronics purchases without confidence about fit and compatibility.

AR tools and room scanner

Streamlined purchase

A cleaner, more human approach to product pages that walks customers through features and specifications. A restructured checkout breaks payment into clear steps, with offers and flexible options surfaced at the right moment.

Unified because customers switch channels mid-journey. Inconsistency at the point of decision costs conversion.

Product page and checkout

Ownership reimagined

An ongoing journey of ownership. Additional product content, intelligent tools, services and personalised offers via the My Cromā app. Staying by the customer's side through the full lifecycle: use, maintain, upgrade, or sell on.

Shifts Cromā from transaction to platform. A reason to return that online-only competitors can't replicate.

My Cromā app ownership screens
The vision received a hugely positive reaction, and the design system was immediately adopted by all Cromā design teams and partner agencies.
Project outcome · Cromā vision
Impact

Adopted on day one.

Design system adoption

All Cromā teams & partner agencies.

100%

Fast tracked to live

Checkout flow moved straight into development.

Live

Strategic roadmap

Aligned across design, product and the wider business.

3 yr