Jan 2026

UX Audit: STC Wholesale Portal

Explores a hypothetical UX audit and redesign concept for a telecom wholesale portal, focusing on improving clarity, discoverability, accessibility, and B2B conversion experience.

Business Design
Design Research
Design Strategy

This audit evaluates how effectively the stc Carrier & Wholesale portal communicates its value, supports enterprise decision-making, and converts interest into qualified leads. It identifies gaps in usability, content clarity, accessibility, and trust-building, and translates them into actionable design and UX recommendations. The work demonstrates a structured approach to enterprise UX evaluation, including heuristic analysis, user journey mapping, SEO and accessibility assessments, and high-level design recommendations aimed at transforming a content-heavy portal into a strategic B2B acquisition platform.

Project Overview

⚔️ The Challenge

Telecom wholesale portals often serve complex B2B audiences with diverse technical and commercial needs. In this case study, the key challenge was to transform a content-heavy and marketing-driven portal into a clearer, trust-focused, and conversion-oriented experience.

The goal was to help enterprise users quickly understand the value of wholesale services, navigate offerings based on their business intent, and confidently initiate engagement.

👥 Target Users

This hypothetical case study focuses on key B2B decision-makers and technical stakeholders who engage with telecom wholesale services. The primary user groups considered include Enterprise Decision Makers, Carrier Partners, and Technical Buyers / Network Managers.

To maintain a focused and simplified scope, this study primarily examines the experience from the perspective of Enterprise Decision Makers, who are responsible for evaluating business value, building trust in the provider’s capabilities, and initiating engagement or conversion decisions.

📌 Scope

This conceptual audit focused on evaluating the front-end digital experience of a telecom wholesale portal. The scope included reviewing homepage clarity, information architecture, service discovery flows, UX writing quality, visual hierarchy, accessibility compliance, and conversion touchpoints such as contact forms.

The assessment did not cover internal systems, sales operations, CRM workflows, or proprietary analytics, and was conducted using publicly available information and UX evaluation frameworks.

🌟 The Opportunity

The study identified an opportunity to reposition the portal from a static information page into a strategic B2B acquisition channel. This transformation highlights how experience design can directly contribute to discoverability, engagement quality, and lead generation in enterprise digital products.

🏆 Accomplishments and Impact

Demonstrated a scalable audit methodology connecting UX improvements to B2B acquisition outcomes, positioning the portal shift from a static content repository to a strategic, conversion-driven enterprise platform.

Process includes planning, B2B User Journey Mapping, SEO & Traffic Analysis, Accessibility Evaluation, Experience Audit, Competitive Analysis, Design Concept, and Recommendations.
Case Study Process
Section 1: Planning
Audit Goals to analyze portal to uncover issues and propose design and content improvements to support engagement, positioning, and business acquisition
Audit Challenge and scope, transforming content heavy portal into B2B experience that communicates value, builds credibility, and guides users towards conversion covering Homepage and Core Wholesale service pages
Target users groups of 3 ser types, covering their user goals and needs
Audit approach with 9 core methodologies to evaluate portal
Section 2: user journey
B2B user journey includes stages, user goals, activities, touchpoints and success indicators per stage
Section 3: SEO and Traffic Analysis powered by SEMRUSH
Performance indicating low visibility scores compared to stc main website
Traffic sources breakdown and heavy reliance on direct traffic
Slide titled What numbers tell us? with justification and impact of low SEO performance scores
Slide titled Shift from content repo to a strategic B2B channel, aligning SEO and UX improvements
Section 4: Accessibility Evaluation powered by WAVE
Accessibility Evaluation overview of high accessibility debt and low maturity scores
Slide titled What numbers tell us? highlighting opportunity, and impact on Enterprise services and User experience
Priority actions to improve digital experience maturity with checklist of core accessibility gaps
Section 5: Experience Audit
Audit Log in Notion
Slide titled What did the audit discover? gathering issues by types
Second part of Slide titled What did the audit discover? gathering issues by types
Hero Section Audit
Services and Why Choose us sections audit
Contact Form Audit
Navigation, Services and footer Audit
Section 6: Competitive Audit
Lightweight Analysis of AT&T
Section 7: Design Concept
Proposed enhanced Solutions section
Section 8: limitations
Highlighting gaps for assumption based audit, moving towards Data-driven UX
Section 9: Reflections
Reflection and Next steps

Disclaimer
This case study is an independent, hypothetical exploration created for portfolio and learning purposes only. It is not commissioned, endorsed, or affiliated with stc (Saudi Telecom Company) in any capacity. All insights, assumptions, and recommendations are based solely on publicly available online information and general design best practices. Any references to brand assets, services, or content are used for illustrative analysis purposes, and all trademarks and intellectual property remain the property of their respective owners.

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