Client: Sears, Hard-lines BU
Program: Home Appliance Shopping experience Vision 2012-13 and experience roadmap.
Overview: "Customer time of need Scenarios". Looking to take how customers shop for Home Appliances to the next level.
Role: Creative Director , Creative, UX, Strategy Direction and Team Oversight
Team: Cross-functional team of Design, UX, Product, Development and BU client partners.
Goals:
Drive growth and sales online with a landmark experience and innovative features
Upgrade our brand presentation - leveraging our expertise - to build stronger customer confidence - Visual Story
Cross-pollinate feature sets/experiences in our ecosystem to better engage our customers across all channels
Focus:
Visual story
Suggestive Selling
Assistive Filering
Product "Finders"
Cross-Sell /Bundling
Navigation / Refine Taxonomy Structure
Approach:
Primary & secondary research
Experience hypothesis & definition
Persona development
Experience definition (Design Thinking Workshops)
Sketches
User flow definition
Visual style and grid definition
Visual design
Experience architecture development (Responsive)
Wireframe
Interaction modeling & feature design
Rapid Prototyping
Iteration planning agile
User Research
Journey Mapping & Product Lifecycle
This is a conceptual model of a person's full cycle of experience with an appliance, from the first awareness of need, through ownership and time to replace it.
Personas: Home Appliance shoppers
Pam Kamel "Sophisticated Shopper"
41 yrs old
Married with 2 kids
Top 3 needs
1. Fit in her existing space
2. Craves Stainless
3. Needs it ASAP
Nick & Amy "Homebuilders"
28 & 26 yrs old
Married with 1 baby
Top 3 needs
1. Price
2. Appearance
3. Capacity
Hector "Affluent Bargain Hunter"
37 yrs old
Single and loves to cook
Top 3 needs
1. Upgrade to his dream cook top
2. Cook top & dishwasher need to match his refrigerator
3.Convection
Experience Strategy
Experience/Product Vision 2012 - Home Appliances. Sears Hard-lines BU, client
Scenario 1 - Make it easier to narrow down to a set of products that meet each customer's needs - when they need it.
Features: Narrow by filter, Contextual help, Product compare
Scenario 2 - Expand sears customer touch points to connect customers to Sears experts - get advice anywhere.
Features: Visualization, Contextual cart layer display "Ghost cart", Video guided selling tool, Product Recommendations, Shopper Re-cap (Online to Store), First drive companion app., My Appliance Page (Product details and Service information)
Scenario 3 - Remember our customers' pervious visits, purchases, and other relevant data to support and streamline their shopping experience - Personalize.
Features: Smart search "Rapport", Selling by Appliance Package Sets
1 - Storyboards
2 - Storyboards
3 - Storyboards
Experience Design
User Experience research, sketches, and interaction design
Features: Product "Finders", Cross-Sell / Bundling, Navigation / Refine Taxonomy Structure, Suggestive Selling, Assistive Filering