MRV · 2020 · Case study

Mundo da Casa: the home-ownership marketplace

R$280Min marketplace sales
+43%sales growth in 2021
~500Kactive customers
Client
MRV, one of Latin America's largest homebuilders
Role
Product Designer (consulting): facilitation, strategy, KPIs
Format
5-day Design Sprint with 16 people, then product definition
Press called it
"The Amazon of home ownership"
Award-winning project

1st place at Prêmio Inovativos 2023, Customer Experience

Brazil's Inovativos Award recognises digital innovation with real impact and scale. In the Customer Experience category, Mundo da Casa came first, ahead of finalists from Vivo, Dexco and ConectCar. The award is run with FGV EAESP as its academic institution and a sector council of Brazilian industry associations.

MRV&CO2023Customer Experience
Read the case on the award site
01

Context

When MRV took its home-buying journey fully digital, the market reacted fast: the stock jumped as much as 7% in a single day while the Ibovespa fell. That bet, turning a homebuilder into a housing ecosystem, is where Mundo da Casa was born.

Buying a home is the biggest purchase most Brazilians ever make, and MRV wanted the relationship to keep growing after the keys are handed over: finishing kits, custom furniture, exclusive discounts, decor content and construction tracking, all in one platform. MRV already offered most of it, scattered across departments. Mundo da Casa turned that into a single product and a new revenue stream.

02

My role

I worked as a consulting Product Designer, supporting the facilitation of a 5-day Design Sprint with 16 people from strategy, design and engineering, and then shaping the product itself. We wrote the mission with the stakeholders on day one, mapped a journey that refused to be linear, structured it into three product territories, scoped the MVP with User Story Mapping and defined the KPIs and OKRs before any screen shipped.

"Our mission is to create the best and most surprising housing-solutions platform, connecting our clients' lifestyle to the MRV brand for the long run."

Product mission, written with 16 people in the room
FacilitationProduct StrategyUser Story MappingKPIs & OKRs
03

Gallery

Mundo da Casa home screen
Palette
079D56FF8B2238C783242625F0F2F1
Typeface
Aa
Averta StdGeometric sans · MRV brand
Virtual decorator and style profile
Inspiration feed
Home-ownership journey tracker
Component · Input
 
Ex.: armários, cozinha, papel de parede…
Component · Button
04

Results

R$0M

in sales moved through the marketplace since the 2020 launch.

+43%

sales growth in 2021 versus the year before.

1 in 7

MRV clients personalize their apartment through the platform.

R$40.8M

in custom planned-closet sales, one of the fastest-growing fronts.

~500K

active customers in MRV's ecosystem the platform serves.

R$116M

in revenue in 2025 alone, across 289 developments.