Rapid growth for a product designed to scale with it

Rapid growth for a product designed to scale with it

Billy Grace was scaling fast, but rapid growth introduced friction in onboarding, data setup and introducing new features which slowed adoption and increased reliance on hands-on support. They needed a design partner to help their internal team navigate that complexity without disrupting what was already working.

Billy Grace was scaling fast, but rapid growth introduced friction in onboarding, data setup and introducing new features which slowed adoption and increased reliance on hands-on support. They needed a design partner to help navigate that complexity without disrupting what was already working.

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~30%

Faster time-to-first impact

16%

Fewer questions per onboarding ticket

What we did

  • UX Audit

  • Product Design

  • Information Architecture

  • Interaction Design

  • UX/UI Design

  • Design System

  • Logo Design

Industry

Industry

MarTech

Billy Grace onboarding sidebar
Billy Grace onboarding sidebar

01

Introduction

Billy Grace is an award-winning AI marketing platform built for growth. Named SaaS Company of the Year 2025, it helps marketers connect first-party data with AI-driven predictive insights, giving businesses a single source of truth for confident, revenue-driven decisions. The platform serves performance marketers, marketing managers and C-level teams at growth-focused companies.

Billy Grace user journey
Billy Grace user journey

02

Where growth creates its own obstacles

As Billy Grace scaled, the platform grew in features and complexity, making it harder for users to find value quickly. Together with their team, we ran a workshop to uncover real workflows, pain points and key engagement moments. These insights shaped detailed personas and behavioral patterns, shifting the focus from shipping more features to designing around actual user intent. A common trap for fast-moving SaaS teams, and one we helped Billy Grace navigate together.

Billy Grace import cards
Billy Grace import cards

03

From sign-up to confident use

New users often signed up but never discovered the platform’s full potential. In close collaboration with the Customer Success and Product team, we rebuilt the onboarding experience to encourage self-paced exploration. Revealing depth through contextual tips and support options within the platform. Supported by a refined design library, the experience now feels seamless from first click to confident use. Less reliance on hands-on support, more users reaching value on their own.

In their words

”We struggled with UX/UI expertise, leading to features that confused users. Yummygum helped us build a structured approach that brought clarity and alignment. Now our team is excited, stakeholders are on board, and together we have the right UX foundation to scale successfully.“

Tim Schouten

Head of Customer Success at Billy Grace

In their words

”We struggled with UX/UI expertise, leading to features that confused users. Yummygum helped us build a structured approach that brought clarity and alignment. Now our team is excited, stakeholders are on board, and together we have the right UX foundation to scale successfully.“

Tim Schouten

Head of Customer Success at Billy Grace

In their words

”We struggled with UX/UI expertise, leading to features that confused users. Yummygum helped us build a structured approach that brought clarity and alignment. Now our team is excited, stakeholders are on board, and together we have the right UX foundation to scale successfully.“

Tim Schouten

Head of Customer Success at Billy Grace

In their words

”We struggled with UX/UI expertise, leading to features that confused users. Yummygum helped us build a structured approach that brought clarity and alignment. Now our team is excited, stakeholders are on board, and together we have the right UX foundation to scale successfully.“

Tim Schouten

Head of Customer Success at Billy Grace

04

More control, without the complexity

Power users needed flexibility: the ability to define and track metrics that matched their own performance models. Working alongside the Billy Grace team, we designed a custom metrics feature that enables this freedom within a clear, consistent structure. By defining hierarchy, visual distinction and interaction patterns, users get control without sacrificing clarity or reliability. Custom metrics now sit seamlessly alongside the platform’s existing metrics, built for experimentation that scales.

05

Giving AI a face users can trust

Billy Grace understood early that AI could make their platform more valuable. Their AI assistant Quin needed an interface that made data accessible and actionable. As part of our collaboration, we explored the UX/UI direction for Quin, guiding users through AI-driven insights with an emphasis on transparency, control and efficiency. Thoughtful visual hierarchy, clear feedback loops and intuitive interactions help users trust the AI and act confidently. The Billy Grace team then took this exploration forward, refining the feature in-house to match their evolving product vision. To complement the feature, we also designed a dedicated logo that fits seamlessly within the existing Billy Grace brand identity.

12hrs saved per week

For Billy Grace's clients

Billy Grace Quin chat UI
Billy Grace Quin chat UI

06

One system their whole team builds on

As Billy Grace’s product grew, so did the decisions that needed to stay in sync across design and engineering. Without a shared system, patterns were recreated from scratch and onboarding new team members took longer than it should.

Together we built Hopper, a Design System named after computing pioneer Grace Hopper, a fitting nod to the Billy Grace name. More than a component library, Hopper combines components, tokens, patterns and documentation that capture the reasoning behind each decision. Yummygum led the working sessions, but Hopper was built as one team, with Billy Grace’s engineers bringing it into the codebase.

What started as an extra layer to maintain has become the foundation for how Billy Grace builds, and how they stay ready for what comes next. Design systems are where human decision-making lives: the rules, the reasoning, the choices that don’t get automated. Hopper gives the whole team a shared language to build from, including AI tooling. That’s not just a design upgrade. It’s a step-change in how the organization works.

20 minutes

What used to take a full day

28%

More efficient on UI work

In their words

”When I review pull requests now, developers use Hopper exactly as intended. Decisions that used to spark debate are settled by the system. Hopper has become the rulebook our whole team builds on.“

Portrait of Justin Fransen

Justin Fransen

Full-stack Developer at Billy Grace

In their words

”When I review pull requests now, developers use Hopper exactly as intended. Decisions that used to spark debate are settled by the system. Hopper has become the rulebook our whole team builds on.“

Portrait of Justin Fransen

Justin Fransen

Full-stack Developer at Billy Grace

In their words

”When I review pull requests now, developers use Hopper exactly as intended. Decisions that used to spark debate are settled by the system. Hopper has become the rulebook our whole team builds on.“

Portrait of Justin Fransen

Justin Fransen

Full-stack Developer at Billy Grace

In their words

”When I review pull requests now, developers use Hopper exactly as intended. Decisions that used to spark debate are settled by the system. Hopper has become the rulebook our whole team builds on.“

Portrait of Justin Fransen

Justin Fransen

Full-stack Developer at Billy Grace

07

Results

Billy Grace now has a platform that's easier to adopt, easier to navigate and designed to scale. Onboarding gets users to value faster. Custom metrics give power users the control they need. Quin has a clear identity and a UX foundation their team could build on. With Hopper in progress, every new screen they ship will build on a consistent, shared foundation.

The impact is measurable. Product team efficiency scores on UI workflow went from 2.2 to 3.6 out of 5, and positive scores on consistency and clarity increased fivefold. Hopper also opened up a new way of working: in a recent experiment, the Billy Grace team combined Hopper's exports with AI tooling and turned a prototype into working code in 20 minutes. Work that would normally take at least a full development day.

~30%

Faster time-to-first impact

New users reach their first meaningful result significantly faster after the onboarding redesign, reducing the time it takes to go from sign-up to active use.

~30%

Faster time-to-first impact

New users reach their first meaningful result significantly faster after the onboarding redesign, reducing the time it takes to go from sign-up to active use.

~30%

Faster time-to-first impact

New users reach their first meaningful result significantly faster after the onboarding redesign, reducing the time it takes to go from sign-up to active use.

16%

Fewer questions per onboarding ticket

A measurable drop in support questions during onboarding, a direct sign that the new flows are clearer and users need less hand-holding to get started.

16%

Fewer questions per onboarding ticket

A measurable drop in support questions during onboarding, a direct sign that the new flows are clearer and users need less hand-holding to get started.

16%

Fewer questions per onboarding ticket

A measurable drop in support questions during onboarding, a direct sign that the new flows are clearer and users need less hand-holding to get started.

5x

More positive scores on clarity and consistency

With Hopper in place, teams no longer reinvent similar elements from scratch, a clear sign the system is doing what it was built for.

5x

More positive scores on clarity and consistency

With Hopper in place, teams no longer reinvent similar elements from scratch, a clear sign the system is doing what it was built for.

5x

More positive scores on clarity and consistency

With Hopper in place, teams no longer reinvent similar elements from scratch, a clear sign the system is doing what it was built for.

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