13 — Cramo · B2B · Product Discovery & Rental

Renting construction equipment shouldn't be harder than renting a car

Cramo is one of Europe's largest equipment rental companies, serving construction professionals across multiple markets. I spent three months embedded with their digital team, redesigning the core journeys customers use to browse, select and reserve equipment from a large, varied catalogue.

Industry
B2B · Construction Equipment · Rental
Role
UX & product design, interaction design & visual design
Engagement
Columbia Road
Scope
Desktop, mobile, product discovery, filtering & booking
Timeframe
3 months
Cramo equipment rental depot — drone view of the warehouse and delivery yard
Excavators and construction equipment lined up on a muddy job site
Cramo app shown across phone mockups — equipment photo, map and location search, equipment list screens
Close-up of welding sparks flying from a grinder against a steel beam
The Challenge

A catalogue too big for a checkout built for browsing

Cramo is one of Europe's largest equipment rental companies, serving construction professionals across multiple markets. The brief was to modernise the digital rental experience — making it easier to find, compare and reserve equipment across categories and locations.

This isn't a typical eCommerce journey. Customers need to find the right equipment fast, understand what's actually available, and complete a booking without friction — while browsing a catalogue that's large, varied, and nothing like a normal online store.

The Move

Redesign the journey, not just the interface

I worked within the digital design team on UX and visual design across desktop and mobile, redesigning the key rental journeys end to end.

Product Discovery — Redesigned product cards and filtering so customers could narrow a large, varied catalogue down to the right piece of equipment quickly.

Booking Flow — Reworked the booking steps to remove friction from reserving equipment across categories and locations.

Cross-platform Consistency — Aligned the experience across desktop and mobile so the same logic held regardless of device.

The Work

01 — Product Discovery & Filtering

Redesigned product cards, categorisation and filtering to help customers narrow a large catalogue quickly.

02 — Booking Flow

Reworked the journey from equipment selection to reservation across categories and locations.

03 — Desktop & Mobile

Designed the core rental journeys as one cross-platform experience.

04 — Complex Catalogue UX

Making a large product catalogue easier to navigate.

Macro shot of a twisted metal drill bit against a red background
Cordless power drill with an assortment of drill bits and screwdriver bits laid out
The Outcome

A rental journey built for a complex catalogue

The redesigned experience created clearer rental flows and more consistent patterns across desktop and mobile, simplifying the complex product interactions that were getting in the way of a booking — for a business where getting the wrong piece of equipment to the wrong site costs real time and money.

3 Months
Embedded engagement via Columbia Road.
Desktop + Mobile
Cross-platform experience.
Simplified Discovery
Clearer paths to find and reserve the right equipment.
Full Journey
Browse → Filter → Select → Book.
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