Making expertise easier to access.
A membership platform turned a dense course catalogue into a confident, guided experience.
- Industry
- Education
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Division
- Websites & Commerce
- Year
- 2025
Fieldnote had 180 courses and a catalogue page that listed all of them alphabetically. Prospective learners could not tell which course suited their experience level, and the enrolment flow lost roughly two thirds of the people who started it.
Billing was handled by three separate tools, and pausing a membership required a support ticket.
We modelled courses as structured content with level, duration, outcome and prerequisite fields, which made genuine comparison and guided pathways possible for the first time.
Entitlements were rebuilt around a single billing provider with proration, pauses and grace periods defined as explicit rules. The enrolment journey became saveable and resumable across devices.
Enrolment rate from course page to paid membership more than doubled, driven mostly by resumable applications and clearer level guidance.
Support load dropped noticeably once members could pause, upgrade and update payment details themselves.
One product lead, one designer, two engineers
- 180 courses had to migrate without breaking existing enrolments
- Three billing tools consolidating into one mid-term
- Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA across the learner journey
Modelling courses as structured content was the decision that made everything else possible, and we should have insisted on it in week one instead of accepting the existing freeform pages for the first sprint.
Mid-term billing consolidation is genuinely risky. Running both providers in parallel for one cycle cost a little more and removed almost all of the risk.
Membership & subscription sites
Gated content, tiers, renewals and billing logic that behaves the same on month twenty-four.
Web development
Custom, WordPress and Shopify builds for teams who need a site that sells, not just one that exists.
Payment gateway integration
Stripe, PayPal, Adyen and regional gateways wired in with tax, refunds and edge cases handled.
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