Dogfy Diet

Redesigning cancellation as a retention conversation

Turning a generic cancellation flow into a personalised experience based on why customers leave.

My role

Product Designer, UX/UI Design, Front-end Dev

Tools used

Figma

Sector

Petfood

Year

2024

About the business

Dogfy Diet is a fresh dog food subscription service operating across Spain, France, Italy and Germany. Cancellation was a critical moment in the customer journey: customers were leaving for very different reasons, some of which could potentially be solved within the product itself.

Context

The pause flow was a quiet leak: this is where users were slipping away.

Challenge

Redesign the experience without touching the backend logic.

Goal

Improve the pause KPI — cut avoidable drop-off without limiting customer autonomy.

Before cancelling, we ask what's happening — cancellation flow entry point Before cancelling, we ask what's happening — cancellation flow entry point

My role

I owned the UX design from discovery to development, working closely with Customer Care, Nutrition, Business and Engineering.

My main focus was translating business rules and customer scenarios into a flow that could actually be implemented and maintained.

After

Cancellation flow after the redesign Cancellation flow after the redesign — full mobile screens: reason category picker, food & nutrition sub-reasons list, ration adjustment vs. nutritionist offer, and feedback confirmation

Design question

How might we reduce avoidable cancellations without compromising customer autonomy?

The goal wasn't to make cancellation harder. It was to understand the reason behind it and offer a genuinely useful alternative when possible.

The key insight

The reason is the product.

We couldn't design a relevant retention strategy without first understanding why customers wanted to leave.

Instead of treating cancellation as a single linear flow, I redesigned it as a decision tree based on the customer's specific reason.

From a linear flow to a decision tree

Instead of sending every customer through the same cancellation journey, the new experience adapts to their specific reason for leaving.

Identify the reason → understand the friction → offer a relevant solution → let the customer decide.

See it live

The shipped pause flow, in Dogfy Diet's own help video (in Spanish).

Retention without friction

We deliberately didn't try to retain every customer.

For sensitive situations, such as the loss of a pet, the right product decision wasn't to introduce another offer or incentive. It was to provide a respectful and straightforward way to leave.

Retention should solve a real problem — not make cancellation harder.

Outcome

+10–20% cancellation recovery (directional estimate)

Business impact

Redesigned to resolve fully in-product — no support ticket required

UX impact

Fewer Customer Care contacts on pause & cancel

Operational efficiency

Directional estimate based on published benchmarks for personalized cancellation flows (10–39% churn reduction — ProsperStack, 2026). Dogfy Diet's own figures are confidential and pending internal validation.

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