Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

The Cross-Channel Experience (Adobe CreateNOW)

Nick Finck
March 09, 2013

The Cross-Channel Experience (Adobe CreateNOW)

Presented at the Adobe CreateNOW Bash event on March 9th, 2013 in Kirkland, Washington.

No matter how many departments your organization has, to your customers, it’s all the same business. They expect a cohesive experience across all touch-points with your company, regardless of whether it’s related to advertising, customer service, social presence, or the actual product or service you provide. The satisfaction of your customers, and thereby the success of your organization, depends in no small part on your ability to create a cohesive and consistently high-quality cross-channel experience. Some examples of disjointed cross-channel experiences are:

- The customer has to inform the customer service representative of what the website says about their own return policy.
- The specifications of a product online does not match the actual product a customer goes to pick up in the retail store.
- The experience of the mobile application is far superior to the experience of the standard web application or software application.
- The customer has to make three different phone calls to get their account changed because the information is stored in three separate business units.

Applying consideration for the cross-channel experience is much easier said than done. It requires a significant level of coordination and collaboration between the stakeholders, to understand not just how to optimize their particular part of the service, but to maintain that optimal and consistent experience throughout. For example, the customer service department can do a great job of correcting a problem after the fact, but they can add greater value to the product or service as a whole by collaborating with sales and product teams to prevent the issue from arising in the first place. In this presentation, you will gain a better understanding of the different ways your customers might interact with your business. We will show how you can map out these touchpoints and help drive the creation of a cohesive experience across the various channels. We will show you how to navigate the political waters within your business to implement a true cross-channel design, which will build great experiences for your customers, regardless of how they are engaging with your business.

Nick Finck

March 09, 2013
Tweet

More Decks by Nick Finck

Other Decks in Business

Transcript

  1. Designing for the entire engagement March 9th 2013 presented by

    nick finck The Cross-Channel Experience
  2. Photo credit: Jeff Croft Director of UX projekt202 Personal Site

    NickFinck.com Twitter @nickf Notable UX toreador
  3. 100+ designers, technologists, researchers, & strategists 3 studios + 5

    satellite offices Denver Austin Seattle Berlin Dallas Denmark Los Angeles Philadelphia
  4. 90%

  5. 90% of businesses say the cross-channel experience is critical to

    their business’s success. - Foviance & Econsultancy, “Multi-channel Customer Experience Report”, Nov 2010
  6. 90% of businesses say the cross-channel experience is critical to

    their business’s success. - Foviance & Econsultancy, “Multi-channel Customer Experience Report”, Nov 2010
  7. Cross-Channel Experience Design is the process of designing for all

    the touchpoints a person has with a business regardless of channel.
  8. Wait, aren’t you just talking about: • User Experience Design

    • Customer Experience Design • Service Design
  9. YES

  10. “70% of U.S. online customers research products online & purchase

    them offline.” - Forrester, “Profiling The Multichannel Customer”, July 2009
  11. “65% of search visitors are looking for further info on

    something they saw via another channel.” - Andrea Resmini & Luca Rosati, “IA for Ubiquitous Ecologies”, 2007
  12. “53% of mobile searches on Bing have local intent.” -

    Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land, November 2010
  13. You might think of your work in the context of

    a channel but your customers do not.
  14. • Web - Account creation, trip history • Mobile -

    Request car, rate driver, tracking, phone verification • Environment - The towncar • Email - Receipt, follow-up • Staff - The driver, customer support Touchpoints
  15. Photo credit: Hien Nguyen • Web - Product research, check

    inventory locations • Product - The bikes • Staff - Subject matter expert, sales support • Environment - Retail store, test trails Touchpoints
  16. “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of

    thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein