Building Identity Infrastructure
for the NFL's DTC Pivot

Building Identity
Infrastructure for the NFL's DTC Pivot

role

Lead Product Designer

Platforms

Mobile, Web, CTV

Timeline

9 months

Key outcome

↑ 3x logged in visits

Role & Scope

Lead Product Designer

Partnered with Product to sequence identity investment around the NFL+ launch. Designed sign-up, purchase, and account management flows across Mobile, Web, and TV, and extended Facemask — NFL's design system — with the components to support them.

Contributions

UX Design
Research
Design System contributions

Problem

High friction to create up to six NFL accounts

Fans juggled up to six accounts across NFL properties. Signup was slow, fragmented, and offered little value. It was a blocker for NFL+, loyalty programs, and CRM.

"I get lost with the number of accounts I need and half of them I'm not sure why I need them."

NFL Fan

Solution

Unified identity infrastructure, optimized for conversion

Unify the league

70 league properties. One NFL account.

Unify the league

70 league properties. One NFL account.

Unify the league

70 league properties. One NFL account.

Sign up, surfaced

Prompted sign in with dropdown. Drove 3x sign-in visits.

Sign up, surfaced

Prompted sign in with dropdown. Drove 3x sign-in visits.

Sign up, surfaced

Prompted sign in with dropdown. Drove 3x sign-in visits.

Keep up with your favorite team

Now an optional part of sign up flow, helping drive an 8% conversion increase.

Upsells at the right moment

Strategically placed upsells influenced a 3x revenue increase and 651% WAU increase for NFL+.

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Reusable components for scale

Extended FaceMask, the NFL's design system, with account management and subscription components, adopted across 70+ properties.

Reusable components for scale

Extended FaceMask, the NFL's design system, with account management and subscription components, adopted across 70+ properties.

Reusable components for scale

Extended FaceMask, the NFL's design system, with account management and subscription components adopted across 70+ properties.

Impact

Faster, easier, adopted league-wide

logged-in fans

0x

0x

logged-in visits across platforms (target: 2x)

logged-in fans

0x

0x

logged-in visits across platforms (target: 2x)

Adoption

0

0

League and club properties adopted solution

Adoption

0

0

League and club properties adopted solution

Efficiency

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seconds

Decrease in sign-up time by 17% (target: 10%)

Efficiency

0

0

seconds

Decrease in sign-up time by 17% (target: 10%)

fan feedback

“Sign-up was super quick and intuitive.”

NFL+ Subscriber

fan feedback

“Sign-up was super quick and intuitive.”

NFL+ Subscriber