The Challenge
At the start of this project lululemon had no Android app in market at all, while the iOS app was mid-rebrand into a new internal design language. With the brand losing ground to competitors, an original three-year Android timeline was compressed into six months — and one internal lulu designer was carrying it.
The core challenge: How do you stand up an entire native app, every flow and every state, when the design language you’re translating from is still being written?
My Role & Ownership
I was staffed directly into the client’s team rather than delivering from the outside:
Owned Membership, Bag, Account / Login, and For You / Shop end-to-end
Contributed to Checkout, Post Purchase, CDP filters, PDP store inventory, purchase history, and region selection
Owned visual QA and UAT for Membership and Account, logging defects directly with the development team
Onboarded an incoming designer onto the team’s files and tooling
Context & Constraints
This engagement was defined by speed and absence of precedent:
No Android app, no Android design system, and no established patterns to inherit.
The iOS reference was still being rebranded mid-project.
Design was trailing development when we joined.
Key Decisions
Unblock development before perfecting design. With dev waiting on design, we restructured our sequence:
High-level wireframes for every main page first
Detailed happy path second
Edge cases layered in last
Translate to the platform, not just the screen. Android needed to feel native, not converted:
Based the work on the existing iOS design system
Augmented with Material 3 wherever the platform required it
Treat quality as part of design, not after it. As the build progressed, I stayed close to it:
Joined visual QA sessions as the only designer present
Set up an emulator myself to test builds against design
Built a UX kanban board to track incoming ad hoc requests
The Solution
A complete, launch-ready native Android experience:
Full guest journey across shop, browse, product, bag, checkout, and post purchase.
Membership and gated experiences designed from the ground up.
Edge, error, and empty states layered onto every flow.
Annotated designs and spacing specs left behind for the internal team.
For You Page
Shop
CDP
Membership Hub
Account
PDP
Bag
Checkout
Outcomes & Impact
lululemon’s first native Android app launched in market in August 2026.
Delivered a full app design against a timeline compressed from three years to six months.
Selected as the only designer of seven to extend through launch and post-launch work.
Established the Android design foundation the internal team continues to build on.
Reflection
This project changed how I think about pace:
I learned that speed and craft are a sequencing problem, not a trade-off.
I got comfortable designing without a finished reference to work from.
I found I like staying with a product through build, QA, and launch.
“She brings a sense of calm and clarity to every design request, which has been incredibly valuable in this fast-moving, high-pressure project.”