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Puffy.
+67% revenue in 24 months.

Repositioned Puffy from a generic mattress brand to an attainable-luxury sleep brand. Led full-site redesign, DesignOps scaling, and a 10-experiment A/B program across 1M sessions.

+67%revenue
+21%desktop checkout
-14%cart abandonment
82eNPS score
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fig. 01 · homepage hero · live assetsource · puffy.com cdn
Puffy Cloud mattress — collection carousel
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Puffy Lux mattress — collection carousel
Puffy Luxhybrid
Puffy Royal mattress — collection carousel
Puffy Royalpremium
Puffy bedroom lifestyle — real-world styled shotPuffy Legacy Smart Bed — in-room set
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Role
Design Manager
Location
Dubai, UAE
Duration
2 years · 2022–2024
Team
Scaled 5 → 12 designers
Scope
Full-site redesign, CRO, DesignOps, 10 A/B experiments
Sessions
1M+ analyzed
Stack
Figma, Shopify Plus, VWO, Klaviyo
Category
eCommerce · Sleep
§ 01 · Context

Puffy was growing but flat on conversion.

Joined Puffy as Design Manager in Dubai. Category was crowded (Emma, Eight Sleep, local players). Conversion had plateaued. Mobile was 68% of traffic but conversion rates lagged desktop by 40%. DesignOps was ad-hoc: five designers, no system, every PDP built from scratch.

§ 02 · Strategy

Reposition first. Then redesign.

The win wasn't a prettier website. It was a sharper brand. We pulled Puffy upmarket: from “affordable mattress in a box” to “attainable luxury sleep.” That meant editorial product photography, confident typography, and a price presentation that said quality-first.

  • Premium visual system
  • Editorial product photography
  • Confident typography
  • Quality-first price framing
  • Mobile-first rebuild
  • Design system + token library
The win wasn't a prettier website. It was a sharper brand.
strategy note · puffy repositioning
§ 03 · Execution

10 A/B experiments. 1M sessions analyzed.

Built an experimentation practice. PDP layout, checkout flow, financing messaging, trust signal placement, hero imagery. Every test was instrumented; every winner shipped. The -14% cart abandonment result came from a 3-step checkout teardown that eliminated the account creation barrier.

PDP redesign
Editorial hero, sticky size selector, financing ribbon
+18% add-to-cart
Checkout teardown
3-step → 2-step, removed forced account creation
-14% abandonment
Hero imagery
Lifestyle over studio, humans over mattresses
+9% hero click-through
Trust signals
Moved reviews above fold, added certification marks
+7% conversion
Mobile PDP
Rebuilt card architecture from scratch
+26% mobile conversion
before1.4%mobile conversion · q1 2022
after1.76%mobile conversion · post-rebuild
§ 04 · Team

Scaled DesignOps from 5 to 12.

Built the design system. Wrote the hiring rubric. Interviewed 80+ candidates. Grew the team from five generalists to twelve specialists across product, brand, motion, and DesignOps. eNPS hit 82 on exit — the highest across Puffy's functions.

§ 05 · Impact

+67% revenue. 24 months. One design team.

“Consistently came up with out-of-the-box design solutions. Positive impact on user experience and bottom-line growth.”
— Arthur Andreasyan, Founder, Puffy
§ 12Let's talkcontact

Make your brand citable.

Book a 30-minute scoping call. We'll look at your current AI citation footprint live, identify the gaps, and decide whether AI-Ready is the right fit. No pitch deck.

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duration: 30 minutes
cost: free
format: live screen-share
output: baseline citation report (yours to keep)
commitment: none
timezone: IST · flexible