2. REI – Recreational Equipment, Inc.
Retailer, Member owned co-op
1938
"We inspire, educate and outfit for a
lifetime of outdoor adventure and
stewardship."
3. me
UX & IA related work for places like Amazon, Microsoft
REI – first experience at a non high tech company
Teach at University of Washington
Most important - Spent 10 years in the
restaurant and bar business. With a
lot of customers.
41. 65% of visitors to an online search
engine were looking for further
information in relation to a product or
service they saw in a television
commercial or in a newspaper
advertisement.
Pubblicita offline e ricerche nei motori, 2007
From ‘Information Architecture for Ubiquitous Ecologies’, Andrea
Resmini and Luca Rosati
46. 53%of US online consumers
say they research products
online that they subsequently
buy offline.
Forrester, North American Technographics Retail Online Survey, Q1 2009 (US).
85. The most common problems
reported by Web-to-store shoppers
related to discrepancies in prices
and product information across the
two channels.
Forrester, How Satisfied Are US Consumers With Web-To-Store Shopping?
December 2009
112. Designing a holistic experience
means listening holistically:
• Usual UX research, but also
• Call center
• Email queries and feedback
• Live Chat transcripts
• Social Media
• Sentiment Analysis
• Market Research
• Analytics (behavior)
• Store follows/shop alongs
114. Make new friends
Marketing
• IT, or anyone who can build stuff
• Finance
• Distribution Center
• Customer Service
• Innies with outies, outies with innies
• Different industries
Artists, architects, museum curators, restaurant
workers, baristas, landscapers, hotel
managers…
116. You can’t be everywhere at once
•Target a channel pair
•Focus on incremental progress
•Measure stuff
•Celebrate (and communicate) quick wins
•Get allies to spread the work
119. Let go of control
• It’s okay when other people start talking about
the customer experience
• It’s okay when other people try to improve the
customer experience
• It’s okay if you aren’t involved in EVERYTHING
• It’s okay if you aren’t the only one making a
difference.
Isn’t it all about the customer?
I currently work at REI, managing experience work.
But most importantly (at least to this conversation), I spent 10 years in the restaurant and bar business and waited on a LOT of customers.
But I had just arrived
I later learned that the Parker Hotel has a ‘no sign’ policy.
They made us take off our conference badges anytime we left the conference ‘sequestering’ area. They yelled at us if we walked around the property with our badges on.
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So, why should you care about this?
They hear about you from print advertising
From all sorts of physical messaging
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Regardless of how I was interacting with the Parker – whether it was making a reservation online, calling them to check something about my reservation or physically at the hotel. I was the same person, the same customer interacting with them.
I want to look into changing my seat while I check in for my flight, and don’t want to pull out and boot up my computer. Heck, I have an iPhone, I shouldn’t have to. I get my flight number via an email confirmation of my itinerary. And the email links me to a app to check in. Sweet.
But the mobile app will only let me check flight status. Arrgh.
Damn. I have to pull out my already packed computer
Find the US Airways site (because I always forget the URL and end up at some advertising site instead)
And the flight number that I just confirmed IS NOT RECOGNIZED.
WAAAAAH. I can’t check in online. I can’t change my seat.
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BUT. When I get to the airport the next morning, no one is at the US Airways desk. Not only that, there isn’t even a self service kiosk!!! I had to hang out in the check in area for over an hour before I could check in for my flight. And by then I couldn’t change my seat.
And one more reason you should care about customer experience beyond the website….
Okay, so how to start thinking about holistic customer experience.
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Being consistent is important, but you also want to maximize the capabilities of each channel.
This touch screen reader in a conference hotel was super handy for finding the room I was supposed to be in without having to ask for anyone or log into a computer.
I think a lot of iPhone apps are kind of stupid and don’t maximize the strengths of the phone. But I really like this feature in Target’s app – it can tell you which aisle a product is in at your local store. Wow. I pull this up when I’m in a Target to save time and easily find the product I want to buy.
There are a lot of tools to help you design for a holistic customer experience.
And a lot of related disciplines.
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Checking out the wayfinding
And other signs. Hmmm – this one is hard to see because of all of the product stacked in front of it. That’s not a great experience.