Unlocking Conversion through Conjoint
How a layered pricing study turned subscription decisions into a value conversation, and delivered conversion lifts of +33%, +9%, and +100% across three decision points.
UX Researcher
Pricing Research
Insights, ELT
Feb 2024
conversion lifts
Pricing as a value conversation, not a barrier.
When our team introduced new subscription plans, we needed to ensure the experience felt clear, trustworthy, and worth committing to. I knew this wasn't just about whether users understood the plans, but how they evaluated trade-offs, interpreted pricing signals, and decided what was "worth it."
To me, the real challenge was this:
How do we make pricing feel like a value conversation, not a barrier?
Start broad,
then go deep.
I set four research goals up front:
- Understand how users interpret the subscription plans and terminology.
- Evaluate pricing comprehension, perceived fairness, and perceived value.
- Identify preferred features and usability gaps across user types.
- Segment users by preference for subscription vs. one-time booking.
Then I narrowed the lens with three diagnostic questions:
- What's confusing or unclear to users?
- What pricing structure supports trust and low-risk entry?
- Where might we be inadvertently nudging users away from conversion?
Qualitative interviews
Surface the language, mental models, and value perceptions users bring to the plans.
Conjoint analysis
Force trade-offs between features, terms, and price points to quantify what users actually value.
Layout & merchandising
Validate visual hierarchy, comparisons, and trust signals on the live decision surface.
Three pillars of trust.
Instead of just listing insights, I looked for the patterns underneath. The findings clustered into three interconnected pillars, each one a different lever on the same underlying question of trust.
Confidence is a visual property.
Fees weren't the problem, opacity was.
Everyone valued flexibility.
Three findings,
three revenue moves.
“I love the value you bring through your research.”
UI work that
moved the revenue needle.
Three concrete conversion lifts came directly out of this research: +33% from clearer layout and merchandising, +9% from more transparent pricing, and +100% when pricing aligned with willingness to pay.
More than the numbers, what mattered was that leadership recognized the work as strategic, not tactical. The research didn't just influence UI, it reframed how the team thought about pricing as a trust artifact.
Conjoint is domain-agnostic.
The methodology I used to study willingness-to-pay and decision architecture in a consumer marketplace maps directly to SaaS tiering, enterprise contract structures, and freemium-to-paid conversion.
The +33%, +9%, and +100% lifts represent research that moved a revenue needle, which is the language enterprise product and growth teams speak.