Helping prospective franchisees explore Dodo Brands

Helping prospective franchisees explore Dodo Brands

I redesigned Dodobrands.io around three questions: who is behind the business, what does each brand offer, and how do its stores perform?

I redesigned Dodobrands.io around three questions: who is behind the business, what does each brand offer, and how do its stores perform?

Product

Corporate, franchise and live-sales website

Scale

2 brands across 28 markets

Role

End-to-end product design, prototyping, information architecture, content requirements

Team

C-Level stakeholders,
1 back-end, 2 front-end devs

From the group overview to store performance

Different audiences needed different depths of information without feeling like they had entered separate websites.

Different audiences needed different depths of information without feeling like they had entered separate websites.

Evidence

Visitors needed to understand the group, evaluate individual franchise propositions and inspect actual store performance. Each task required a different level of detail.

Decision

Connected the group overview, brand propositions and live sales data, giving visitors clear routes from exploration to enquiry.

Trade-off

Kept brand and sales journeys distinct, with shared navigation so visitors could move between them without losing context.

Shared structure, distinct brands
Kept the group coherent without flattening Dodo Pizza and Drinkit into one expression.
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Making the menu easier to scan
Kept the group coherent without flattening Dodo Pizza and Drinkit into one expression.
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Evidence

Both brands needed to communicate comparable franchise information, but their products, identities and emotional propositions were different.

Decision

Shared the page structure and interactions; used colour, photography and expressive details to give each brand its own voice.

Trade-off

Standardised comparable franchise information while leaving room for each brand’s identity.

From exhaustive reporting to focused comparison
Working prototypes moved the decision from stakeholder preference to evidence from franchisees.
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Making the menu easier to scan
Working prototypes moved the decision from stakeholder preference to evidence from franchisees.
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Evidence

The initial direction reflected leadership’s preference for showing comprehensive detail. Testing with active franchisees showed that this made the key performance information difficult to find. Their feedback helped us decide what to keep in the overview and what to move into store details.

Process

Tested 4 working prototypes with 18 active franchisees to identify essential metrics and confusing controls.

Decision

Kept the most-used comparison metrics in the overview, moved secondary data into store details, and let users narrow the list by country, town, and store.

Resulting experience

In later rounds, franchisees described the overview as clearer and easier to use. We refined the information hierarchy through several rounds of validation before shipping the final version.

Making the menu easier to scan

Comparison first

Kept only the information needed to compare store performance.

Detail on demand

Moved secondary metrics into the individual store view.

Clear active context

Preserved the selected brand, market, reporting period and currency while users narrowed the dataset.

Responsive prioritisation

On smaller screens, users compare stores through one selected metric rather than a compressed desktop table.

Evidence replaced preference

Evidence replaced preference

Testing gave us a clear basis for deciding what belonged in the overview and what could sit one level deeper.

Testing gave us a clear basis for deciding what belonged in the overview and what could sit one level deeper.