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BUILDING THE CUSTOMER SUPPORT TOOL JOHN ATHAYDE @boboroshi VP of Design, CargoSense #evolveuxconf

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METICULOUS

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CARGOSENSE

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http://fortune.com/2016/03/16/livingsocial-layoffs/

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Business Model circa 2012

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DAILY ESCAPES ADVENTURES FAMILIES GOURMET AT HOME PRODUCTS TAKEOUT & DELIVERY NATIONWIDE 918 F

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Customer Lifecycle

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20% OFF

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Problems: Customers who abused system Merchants not honoring terms Expectation mismatches Jerks

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Technology Snapshot circa 2012

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MONOLITHIC APP SERVICE-BASED ARCHITECTURE

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Team Siloing ENGINEERING DESIGN

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CSR Team Setup INTERNAL RAILS APP SALESFORCE

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Unintentional THE SERVICE DESIGN PROJECT

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Project Kickoff

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Project Team BEN GETSON Product Manager TOM COPELAND Engineer JOHN ATHAYDE UX/UI Lead, FE LYNN WALLENSTEIN Front-End Engineer DAVE BOCK Engineer PETE CAMPBELL Engineer

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Service Safari

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AT-ONE

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“Surprise & Delight”

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One on One Interviews

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Front Line Consumer Advocate (CA) TITLE Consumer Advocate (CA) ROLE Individual who is the general system user, interacting with customers via phone and email (and eventually chat) to resolve support issues that customers have with LivingSocial, it’s deals, or it’s merchants. JOB TASKS • Answer phone • Create and manage cases • Issue refunds • Resolve customer issues GOALS, FEARS, AND ASPIRATIONS • Meet daily quota (fear of not meeting quota) • Working on projects by accomplishing high close rate • Fear of customer anger especially w/r/t refund policy • Avoiding mandatory overtime by meeting their quotas and closing cases more quickly COMPUTER SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES • Wide range of ability and knowledge. • Needs to be able to use a browser, answer the phone in a professional manner • Able to multi-task and keep critical information correctly in their heads • Ability to get trained on the tools (currently SalesForce, phone system) GROUP SIZE AND INFLUENCE This is currently the largest group at 130 individuals (not including senior CAs but including international users) MEANS OF COMMUNICATION SalesForce chatter, team meetings with team leads, IM/GoogleTalk, email. INTERNAL TOOLS: CSR PERSONAS 3 Athayde Confidential | For internal use only PERSONAS

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Photo by Leo Hildago | https://www.flickr.com/photos/ileohidalgo/15090035480 Shadowing

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A Sample Call (DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION)

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Found Problems

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Manual (Internal) Tech Support

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Low KPIs/SLAs AGENT SLA 20% CALL ABANDON RATE 1 in 5 abandoned before pickup TIME TO COMPLETE A CONSUMER CASE Too long

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YES. TASK PRIORITY?

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Documenting MORE TIME SPENT THE CALL THAN THE CALL ITSELF

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Project Goals

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New Team New Location Onboarding Ease More Intuitive

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Constraints

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as a database

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Slow Rollout

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Fix Issues As You Go

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Styleguide BUILDING A AS YOU GO

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VISON BOARDS, EARLY 2011

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WILDE

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Service on Service informing the greater product offering

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Canary CUSTOMER SUPPORT IS THE IN THECoalmine

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Improved the Fine Print

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Vouchers redesigned for Customer Clarity

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Customer Self-Service Support Portal

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“My Account” vs. “My Vouchers”

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Improved Deal Quality & Programming

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FINISHED DESIGNS

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Wrong? WHAT WENT

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Underestimated actual time required

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Wrong Framework

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Lost the ability to shadow easily

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Lack of artifacts

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“Conversations in Basecamp, Campfire, or Slack don’t do it” —DAVID BOCK REGARDING ARTIFACTS OVER TIME

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Lack of ownership handoff of style guide and internal tools ux

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Right? WHAT WENT

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Messaged Business Value

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Deployed fixes early and often on existing system

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Used it to build an internal apps style guide that was applied on other tools

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Better Merchant Education

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Metrics AGENT SLA 20% => 90% CALL ABANDON RATE 20% => 4% TIME TO COMPLETE A CONSUMER CASE Reduced 20%

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Summing Up and perfect hindsight

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Questions?

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JOHN ATHAYDE [email protected] @boboroshi www.meticulous.com | www.cargosense.com Thank You!