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Create Successful Cross Channel ExperiencesSamantha Starmer@samanthastarmerIA Summit 2011
meWeb stuff for places like Amazon, MicrosoftREI – Recreational Equipment, Inc. Create and lead IA, UX, IxD teamsTeach at University of Washington
first time at brick & mortarhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dirpics/464458290/
Waitress picture10 years in restaurant business
a story…http://www.flickr.com/photos/sugarpond/3016905349
Oz IA(Australia!!)
Sydney pictureimagined myself in Sydney
but I’m a procrastinator
oh crap
huh.  an electronic Visa.  well, that’s pretty cool.
except I can’t check in online
even though I bought my tickets and Visa online
damn, have to talk to a personhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mkooiman/787191703
waited in long check-in linehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jopoe/4569447498
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryansblog/411455656
Flight agent picturehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dykstranet/211106615
“this won’t work”
Censored!but, it has official stuff and numbers and …
“i’m a human, not a machine”
Flight agent picturehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dykstranet/211106615
“what’s your itinerary?”
thank god I’m old school
what about my visa?
Sleeping at Airporthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/feline_dacat/3197429380
“i have no idea”
Flight agent picturehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dykstranet/211106615
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slworking/4169134307
“Change screens, Pillow Pillow”“Where’s the Pillow?”“Didn’t they cover that in training?”“Backslash Backslash”“Okay, tietac”“What?”“Tietac”“huh?”“Like Tie”“carrot backslash”“United States”“Pillow Pillow”“Change Screens”
lesson?http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjern/2150873799
Holistic experience
we live across physical and digital
our lives cross channels – websites, apps, phone, etc…
we must design for the holistic experience
don’t design for just website
…app
…producthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/differentview/5506159327
…or physical environmenthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/24218656@N03/4589621372/
we must design across all touchpoints
digital and physical are colliding
70%of US online consumers research products online and purchase them offlineForrester, Profiling The Multichannel Consumer, July 2009
53% of mobile searches on Bing have a local intentGreg SterlingSearch Engine Landhttps://searchengineland.com/microsoft-53-percent-of-mobile-searches-have-local-intent-55556
technology is everywhere
but
(and here is our opportunity)
‘integrated experiences are few and far between’Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino http://www.slideshare.net/designswarm/creating-the-internet-of-things
customers don’t think about channels
http://www.crwgraphics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/multichannel-marketing.bmp
customers don’t think about design disciplines
http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/images/ux.jpghttp://www.jjg.net/elements/pdf/elements.pdfhttp://www.montparnas.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/user%20experience%20design%20explained.gif http://mickwinters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/venn1.gif
customers do think about your company, your product
across time, touchpoints and experiences
however we want to interact
whenever we see your brandhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cdevers/3388665920
outsidehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cafemama/542656019
insidehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/penmachine/2971108982
packaginghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/streamishmc/2391505902
signshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewbain/2510253694
employeeshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/7577938@N02/4897443265
things outside our controlhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jaxphotography/267129315
design across digital and physical
between channels
between channelsbetween platforms
between channelsbetween platformsbetween digital & physical
how?
5 principles5 methods5 tools
5 principles convenientconnectedconsistentcontextual(a) crosstime
convenient
Walgreen on iPad
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsrcyclist/3181389420http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachklein/3964249
Walgreen’s drive inhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ambernectar/4042608385
consistent
connected
consider the experience of transitionshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mcdemoura/2209204939
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hotel-de-la-ville-monza/4182940190
Netflix
no Encore…
contextual
15% bump in weekend traffichttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dalydaly/10813808