Presentation from the 2014 Product, Customer and User Experience Summit in Chicago on June 16, 2014. The presentation discusses the context for UX as strategy, provides an example of applying a UX approach to informing your business and experience strategy, measuring the impact of UX and what's needed to sustain and build upon the value of UX within an organization.
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Harnessing the Value of UX
1. HARNESSING THE VALUE OF UX
Leveraging the practice of experience
design to create business value
Jason Ulaszek @webbit Product, Customer & User
Experience Summit
June 16, 2014
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A QUICK LOOK BACKâŚ
20+ years ago
Tomorrow
WEB DESIGN
CORPORATE STRATEGY + ECOMMERCE
DIGITAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
INNOVATION + CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
DIGITAL + PHYSICAL MASH-UP
???
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A TERM WAS BORN
UXUser Experience Design
Multi-disciplinary design approach that builds customer satisfaction,
loyalty and engagement by creating easy to use and pleasurable
interactions between a customer and a product/service
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SHARING SIX CHARACTERISTICS
â Publicly traded in the U.S. for the past 10+ years.
â Employs the strategic use of design.
â Has had growth in design-related technologies, talent
acquisitions and facilities.
â Design is endemic to the structure of the organization.
â Design leadership present at the senior & divisional levels.
â Senior-level staff demonstrate a conscious decision and
commitment to smart design.
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OUTPERFORMED S&P500 BY 228%
Design Value Index by Motiv Strategies (January 2013)
http://www.dmi.org/?DesignValue
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Using design methods to understand customer
needs better as well as to reframe complex
problems is leading to insights that constitute
strategic competitive advantages. Further, utilizing
top design talent to translate insights and new
strategies into tangible solutions in hardware,
software and service interactions helps companies
grow faster through differentiation and better
customer experiences.
Design Value Index by Motiv Strategies (January 2013)
http://www.dmi.org/?DesignValue
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18. To instill empathy within the organization.
HOW CAN I UNDERSTAND
AND REACT TO MY
CUSTOMERS NEEDS?
19. To create uniformity across an entire customer ecosystem.
WHERE SHOULD I FOCUS & ENGAGE?
HOW CAN I OPTIMIZE WHAT I HAVE?
20. To build engaging brand experiences that drive customer desire.
HOW DO I CREATE
GREATER BRAND AFFINITY?
21. To develop a customer-centric culture that drives innovation.
HOW CAN I SHIFT THE MINDSET OF MY
ORGANIZATION & CREATE A COMMON
UNDERSTANDING OF THE CUSTOMER?
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STEP 1: DISCOVER
⢠How do we disrupt the market?
⢠How can we delight our customers?
⢠How & why do people use our
products and services?
⢠Where are we strong/weak?
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UNCOVER THE DIRECTION
The right approach is determined by asking the right questions.
ADOPTION
Business Questions:
â˘What do people think of my brand?
â˘What do they want from my company?
â˘What do people like about our products?
!
Research Methods:
⢠Surveys
⢠Focus Groups
⢠Customer Feedback Channels
⢠Card Sorting
!
Design Impact:â¨
!
⢠Visual Design
⢠Branding
⢠Content
OPTIMIZATION
Business Questions:
â˘Can we increase our conversion rate?
â˘Is our navigation helpful to our customers?
â˘How do we stack up against competitors?
!
Research Methods:
⢠Usability or A/B Testing
⢠Web Analytics
⢠Card Sorting
⢠Heuristic Review
!
Design Impact:â¨
!
⢠Information Architecture
⢠Interaction Design
⢠Content labeling and Site Nomenclature
ENGAGEMENT
Business Questions:
⢠How can we delight our customers?
⢠How do we disrupt the market?
⢠How do people really use our products?
!
Research Methods:
⢠Contextual Inquiry
⢠Mental Model interview
⢠Ethnography
⢠Customer Diary
!
Design Impact:â¨
!
⢠Experience Design
⢠Strategic Offerings
⢠Interaction Design
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STEP 2: DEFINE
⢠What are the gaps in the
experience?
⢠How do we use all this to make
decisions?
⢠What can we act on now?
⢠What does it all mean?
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ADVANTAGES OF MENTAL MODELS
Confidence Clarity Continuity
⢠Create confidence in design
decisions that are based on
solid research
!
⢠Ensure design decisions make
sense to your audience based
on alignment with their view
!
⢠Reduce ambiguity, because
the model is based on real
data
⢠Provide a visual model of
someoneâs whole experience
in one place
!
⢠Is easily shared among
colleagues, creating common
ground for decision-making
!
⢠Help designers and
stakeholders adopt the
customer perspective in a
powerful way
⢠Evolves slowly over time, so it
can be the basis for a long-
term strategy
!
⢠Provide retained knowledge,
even if team members
change; can easily be
understood by new
stakeholders
!
⢠Offer insights about new
opportunities, even as market
conditions change
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THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUR ROADMAP
Interaction Design
Concepts
Site Architecture Nomenclature Detailed Navigation
Personas Scenarios Use cases
Gap Analysis Product Concepts
Mental Model
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STEP 3: DIRECT
⢠How should we prioritize?
⢠What are the evaluation criteria?
⢠What do we do first?
⢠What does success look like â for
our business & customer?
⢠How do we socialize this
throughout the organization?
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PRIORITIZE THE OPPORTUNITIES
Identify â¨
Gather and document opportunities
identified through each project activity.
Assess â¨
Determine evaluation criteria and score
each opportunity accordingly.
Prioritizeâ¨
Identify opportunities to be done first
based on feasibility, importance.
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âWHYâ UNLOCKS CRITERIA
Technical Feasibility
âşâŻ Difficulty of implementation
âşâŻ Does solution need front or back-end
coding, or both?
âşâŻ Does the solution require integration with
other systems or third-party solutions?
Resource Feasibility
âşâŻ Do we have the data and tools to do this?
âşâŻ Do we have the people to do this?
âşâŻ Is the solution cost-effective?
FEASIBILITY
Importance to the Business
âşâŻ Increases investment/conversion
âşâŻ Promotes product and brand awareness
âşâŻ Increases credibility and trust
âşâŻ Provides additional advisor value/education
Importance to the Consumer
âşâŻ Facilitates access to product information
âşâŻ Provides research and insights
âşâŻ Offers client-ready sales/education materials
âşâŻ Helps me with my business
IMPORTANCE
And everything is evaluated against it.
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ORGANIZE KEY THEMES
Look for affinities across features.
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Foundational Updates
âşâŻ Site structure, navigation and labeling, branding
and multi-device capability
âşâŻ Content refresh and optimization
âşâŻ Analytics program
Features/Functions
âşâŻ Document accessibility
âşâŻ Advisor site (registration required)
âşâŻ Comments/discussion and event calendar
âşâŻ Context-specific feedback
âşâŻ Targeted content and content syndication
Content
âşâŻ Thought leadership, practice management, and
client-facing content
âşâŻ Multimedia/interactive content
âşâŻ Social/community and third-party content
âşâŻ Content processes: editorial calendar, controlled
vocabulary
Tools
âşâŻ Fund finder and comparison tool, portfolio map
âşâŻ Benchmark performance and exposure analysis
âşâŻ Price performance and premium/discount charts
âşâŻ Correlation tracker and stock screener
âşâŻ Portfolio constructor/analyzer
STEP #3: DIRECT
Identify the key themes (samples)
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ILLUSTRATE THE PLAN
Blend short and long term focus.
CAPABILITIES:!
âşâŻ Advisor comments and
discussion
âşâŻ Advisor site (registration
required)
âşâŻ Content syndication
âşâŻ Additional third-party
content
âşâŻ Targeted content delivery
CAPABILITIES:!
âşâŻ Tools for advisor analysis
âşâŻ Multimedia content
âşâŻ Client-facing content
âşâŻ Social media and
community content
development
âşâŻ Feedback and surveys
âşâŻ Event calendar
CAPABILITIES:!
âşâŻ Thought leadership,
research and insights
content
âşâŻ Credibility-enhancing
content (case studies, etc.)
âşâŻ Tools and processes for
content maintenance
âşâŻ Additional Contact Us/
About Us content
âşâŻ Document accessibility
âşâŻ Controlled vocabulary
CAPABILITIES:!
âşâŻ Updated site structure,
navigation and labeling
âşâŻ Refreshed design/branding
âşâŻ Mobile-friendly platform
âşâŻ Content refresh/
optimization
âşâŻ Web analytics
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SAMPLE RELEASE EXPERIENCE
CAPABILITIES:!
⢠Thought leadership, research
and insights !
⢠Credibility-enhancing and
About Us content!
⢠Tools for content maintenance!
⢠Document accessibility!
⢠Controlled vocabulary!
BUSINESS BENEFITS:!
⢠Improved user engagement!
⢠Improved site and brand
credibility!
⢠Internal productivity gains!
MEASUREMENT:!
⢠Site Catalyst metrics!
⢠Contacts and leads
generated!
⢠Repeat visits
Standardize terminologyIncrease editorial efficiency
Develop more ârealâ content to
build credibility
Ensure document
accessibility
Facilitate advisor
communications with sales
Offer advisors additional, qualitative
research and insights
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THE RIGHT EXPERIENCE IS DRIVEN
BY A BALANCED APPROACH
Exploratory research to gain insights into
Customersâ needs, wants, and motivations
Validate (or invalidate) design and content
decisions: usability testing, A/B testing etc.
Ensure to capture the right metrics to be
able to measure results, successes,
failures and opportunities. Key to
continued, iterative improvements.
ASK
TEST
MEASURE
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THE RIGHT QUESTIONS LEAD TO
CLEAR SUCCESS METRICS
BUSINESS
OBJECTIVES
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS DIAGNOSTIC METRICS
Increase in traffic âş Increase in new visitors to web site âş #,% visits by state/region
âş Top accessed content
Increase online quote
completes
âş Number of online quote intention
Phase 1 (landing page of Get a
Quote page)
âş #,% change policy completes calls via GFN
âş #, % change in quote abandonment
Increase products per
household
âş x âş x
Strengthen brand
awareness
âş x âş x
Increase customer
loyalty
âş x âş x
Improve customer
satisfaction
âş x âş x
Increase in Online
Customer Servicing
âş x âş x
âSave More Salesâ by
driving to call center
âş x âş x
INCREASE
REVENUE
REDUCE
COSTS
MEASUREMENT DRIVERS
Acquire New Customers
Increase Sales
Improve Retention
Strengthen Brand Equity
Drive Customer Loyalty
Improve Customer Satisfaction
Decrease Service Costs
Improve Sales & Service
Effectiveness
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MEASURE PAIN POINTS + INSIGHTS
⢠Common understanding of our users
⢠Explore new ways to measure CX
⢠Shift the internal conversation toward
empathy for the customer
⢠Merge all CX metrics into a single view
⢠No âone size fits allâ approach
⢠Experiment with new ways to evolve clientâs
understanding of the customer
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The only way to getâand
keepâhigh marks from
customers is to treat
customer experience as a
business discipline.
Burns, M. (2014, January 21).
The Customer Experience Index 2013. Forrester.
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CAPABILITY PRESSURE COOKER
Gartnerâs âHype Cycleâ
http://gtnr.it/1g1Nnw0
[A Clientâs] View of CX vs. Current Maturity of CX Team
Pressure is building rapidly for teams
supporting CX execution.
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UX DESIGN TEAM PATH TO MATURITY
ESTABLISHING A
POINT-OF-VIEW
(Selling design and rationale)
!
LEADING CHANGE
(Design leading business)
Quality InfluenceEngagement
!
HONING CRAFTâ¨
(Tools, resources & process)
You have to understand where you stand - and
where youâre headed.
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DESIGN TEAM MATURITY MODEL
BUILDING A
FOUNDATION
A team representing the voice of
customer experience exists and
begins to form a vision.
FORMED TEAM & VISION
PROVEN CX SKILLS
BEGAN OUTREACH
HONING SKILLS
Alignment on mission and
expectations progresses as
foundational processes materialize.
ESTABLISHING
DIRECTION
Vision, process, and collaboration
are sufficiently developed, and the
team begins using their expertise to
influence business decisions.
LEADING CHANGE
Evolution races rapidly ahead as the
team launches forward from its solid
base to partner as a regular
influences steering customer
experience direction.
PIONEERING
INNOVATION
The team is a proven design and
business leader, playfully innovating
and demonstrating category
leadership and mastery.
DEVELOPED A STANCE
EXPLORED APPROACHES
BUILDING LEADERSHIP
FINDING A FOCUS
DEFINING METHODOLOGIES
GAINING MOMENTUM
EARNING RESPECT
EMERGED AS LEADERS
GREW ORG SUPPORT
DESIGN LEADS BUSINESS
EXPERIMENTATION
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
A business plan for your design team.
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MAXIMIZING YOUR RESOURCES
1. Avoid silos, which prevent greatness.
2. Work in parallel streams.
3. Care about your customers.
4. Make creativity a constant in business.
5. Get inspired by the people on your team.
6. Provide self-service, but give service a human touch as well.
7. Think beyond engagement to relationship.
8. Deliver Big D design and make a positive impact.
9. Develop ecosystems and engage in holistic thinking.
10. Get out of the building and gather evidence.
Designing the Future of Business, Daniel Szuc in UX Matters http://bit.ly/1kFAA1w