Ifeoluwa Emmanuel
On-Demand Laundry & Garment Care

Wash:CareOnDemand

Wash is a Nigeria-based laundry and garment-care platform bringing everyday laundry, dry cleaning, luxury garment care, shoe and bag restoration, and self-service laundromat booking into one clear mobile experience.

Wash: Care On Demand banner
My RoleProduct Designer
Duration3 weeks
DisciplinesMobile Product Design, Service Design, Design Systems
Year2025

Overview

/Challenge

Laundry is recurring and time-sensitive, yet users lacked clarity around pricing, service differences, pickup expectations, and order status. The expanding service catalogue risked making the experience feel fragmented and difficult to trust.

/Solution

I designed Wash as a connected service ecosystem. Each service has a focused journey, while shared patterns across onboarding, ordering, tracking, payments, and post-order interactions keep the experience intuitive, transparent, and scalable.

Research

The work began by understanding the complete ecosystem, the people using it, and the moments where unclear structure created unnecessary friction.

01

Mapped every Wash service to identify overlaps and unique operational requirements

02

Prioritised friction around service confusion, uncertain pricing, and limited post-pickup visibility

03

Structured flows around three core user intents: place an order, track progress, or manage preferences

04

Validated the system with users and implemented improvements that reduced decision fatigue

Who this had to work for

Different lives.
Different stakes.

A useful product must understand what each person is trying to protect, avoid, and accomplish.

01 / Time-poor professional

Amara

A busy Lagos professional who needs reliable weekly laundry pickup without spending time calling, negotiating, or following up.

FrictionShe cannot tell what a service will cost or what is happening after her clothes leave her hands.
Success looks likeSchedule in minutes, understand the price, and trust every status update.
02 / Premium-care customer

Tunde

Owns designer garments, shoes, and bags and needs specialist care rather than a generic laundry service.

FrictionEveryday laundry flows do not provide enough detail, reassurance, or control for valuable items.
Success looks likeChoose the right treatment confidently and know his items are handled by experts.

Process

The design process translated those findings into a clear, scalable system. Each stage reduced complexity while preserving the personality and purpose of the product.

01

Moodboard

Analysed product personas and created a clear visual direction balancing everyday convenience with premium garment care.

02

Service Architecture

Separated distinct service journeys while defining shared patterns for ordering, tracking, payments, and support.

03

Design System

Created a tailored mobile design system to keep an expanding set of services cohesive and efficient.

04

Validation

Tested the journeys with users and refined unclear decisions, states, and service-selection moments.

Product judgment

The decisions
behind the screens.

01

Organise around intent, not the company structure

Users arrive wanting to place an order, track progress, or understand a service. Making those intents the primary architecture keeps the product useful even as Wash adds more business lines.

02

Keep specialist care distinct but familiar

Luxury garments and restoration need more explanation and reassurance than everyday laundry. Their journeys use richer information while preserving shared navigation, actions, and status patterns.

03

Make the invisible service visible

Trust drops after pickup because the user cannot see the work happening. Clear order states, pricing expectations, and next actions turn an opaque offline process into a predictable experience.

Signature system

One language.
Five services.

The system needed enough consistency to feel effortless, and enough flexibility for everyday laundry, luxury care, restoration, and self-service to remain distinct.

Colour roles
Primary#1941B3
Trust and action
Secondary#0D9C35
Care and completion
Ink#1F1F1F
Clear hierarchy
Canvas#F9FBFF
Calm service space
Shared interaction grammar
Schedule care02 / 04
Pickup address Home
Preferred time Tomorrow, 10:00
Everyday washDry cleaningEleganceHubShoe & bag careLaundryXpress

Service-First Home Dashboard

A unified home experience that surfaces active orders, available services, and quick actions without friction, so every return visit starts with clarity.

Service-First Home Dashboard — screen 1 of 3

Guided Order Placement

A focused multi-step ordering flow that makes pricing expectations clear, reduces decision fatigue, and confirms every detail before the pickup is booked.

Wash: Care On Demand Guided Order Placement

EleganceHub & LaundryXpress

Dedicated specialist journeys for luxury garment care and self-service laundromat booking, each with the right level of detail and reassurance, built on shared interaction patterns.

Wash: Care On Demand EleganceHub & LaundryXpress

Transparent Order Tracking

Clear status updates and next-step visibility at every stage, turning an opaque offline process into a predictable, trust-building experience after pickup.

Wash: Care On Demand Transparent Order Tracking
What I would carry forward

The work changed how I design.

01

Service design is often about making invisible operations legible. The interface earns trust by explaining what is happening when the customer cannot see the work.

02

Consistency does not mean forcing every service into one template. The strongest system preserves familiar interaction patterns while allowing specialist journeys to explain what makes them different.

03

A scalable product architecture should reflect stable user intentions, not a business org chart that may change next quarter.

Outcome

What changed
because of the work.

01

One coherent mobile platform for everyday, premium, restoration, and self-service care

02

Clearer service selection, pricing expectations, and order progress

03

A scalable design system supporting future services and deeper personalisation