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Simplifying registration to convert more users

A third of people never finished signing up. I found out why, then fixed it.

Role
Product Designer
Company
Caxton
When
2024 — 2025
Result
[your number]

34%

of people dropped out during registration.

1Signed up myself, start to finish
5Usability tests
100Session recordings in Clarity

The product choice screen stopped everyone. Users either skipped it or spent minutes trying to decode it.

Product choice screen — before

Small input details created dead ends. A red strength meter on strong passwords, a date picker that fought you, an address field that loaded above where you were looking, and no error states to explain any of it.

Date picker — screen recording
Address picker — screen recording

The verification screen read as a failure. People created second accounts rather than upload a document.

KYC screen — before

Cut the product choice screen down to the job people came to do.

Before
Product choice — before
After
Product choice — after

Fixed the inputs. Green meter for strong passwords, a plain date field, address results below the postcode, error states everywhere.

New date input
Password meter — after

Rewrote verification as a next step, not an error.

Before
KYC — before
After
KYC — after

[One line. What happened to the drop-off.]

[X]%Drop-off after
[X]%More completed sign-ups