Helping our client instil a repeatable research process
Though I wore many hats throughout this project, my primary focus was on the design strategy and
research for the platform. I worked closely with the Associate Creative Director (ACD) on the
project to gather input from our client’s customers, synthesize and present this research, and
facilitate workshops to define and prioritize future efforts at the portfolio level.
In addition to gathering research for our designs, we worked on trying to instil a repeatable
process that considered the qualitative aspect of customer research, rather than just quantitative
using analytics. What we’d found was that the existing process focused on delivering value — with
the assumption that this also addressed customer problems — and circumvented early-stage generative
and evaluative research to identify problems. This caused inefficiencies and a few instances of
rework as some customers were only asked for feedback once certain features were in development.
We worked with the client to identify these inefficiencies and helped with defining an approach to
gather generative and evaluative research from their customers. I worked on defining what we wanted
to learn, assisted our client with facilitating these interviews, and synthesized our findings. We
then worked with them to facilitate a workshop to prioritize next steps.