4. General Assembly
Weight Watchers
College Board
Helping people pursue work they love and change careers
Helping people achieve healthy lifestyles through behavior change
Helping people find success in college and career
me
5. Organizations that add just a little bit
every day always defeat those that are
in the subtraction business.
- Seth godin
18. A brief history on mapping
1984 1999 2008
Service design Journey maps EXPERIENCE MAPS
Service Blueprint by Brandon Schauer, Journey Map
by Joel Flom, Experience Map by Chris Risdon
22. 1. Find your gaps
2. Capture gap data
3. Track shift triggers
4. Fix the friction
5. Close the loop
23. 1. Find your gaps
Identify those big mode shift gaps in your product experience
24. Find your gaps
1. Review existing maps with customer facing teams
2. As a collective team, circle the gaps
3. Name a product + ops steward for each circle
PRO TIP: Nothing
existing? anyone
on the team can
sketch the flows
25. 2. Capture gap data
Instrument systems and deploy methods to collect gap data
26. Capture gap data
1. Review your existing data sources
2. Identify instrumentation & research needed
3. Plan and roll them out
PRO TIP: No dedicated
researcher? Get the team
shadowing customers.
27. 3. Track shift triggers
Define events that create shifts in mode
28. Track shift triggers
1. Use what you already have/know
2. Look for patterns of events that precede a shift
3. Prioritize based on value: user, business, effort
1
2
4
3
PRO TIP: Combine
qual and quant to
define priority
29. 4. Fix the friction
Plan and execute solutions for those priorities
30. Fix the friction
1. Expand scope / create team(s) if needed
2. Engage org-wide (responsibility ≠ ownership)
3. Make a plan for the fixes, and execute on it
PRO TIP: It may not
always be a product
solution
31. 5. Close the loop
Connect every user interaction, anticipate new triggers
32. Close the loop
1. Connect the data, get everyone access
2. Flag your data gaps, make a plan to fix it
3. Keep talking regularly across teams
PRO TIP: Even with disparate systems, access to
data helps align everyone on problem solving
33. Next sprint, start fixing mode shift friction
Find your gaps »
Capture gap data »
Track shift triggers »
Fix the friction »
Close the loop »
Gather / sketch your flows, circle your gaps, put a name against each one
Gather / share existing data, ask teams what data they would love to have
List top volume drivers per channel, activity that preceded a ‘contact’
Identify a gap to close in <30 days; need not be software - e.g. email, IVR
Give service team pilot access to a product system to addresses a pain point
34. I've learned that people will forget what
you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made
them feel.
- Maya angelou