Partnering with one of Ireland's leading transport services providers to design and plan the development of their digital and on-boarding experience.
Transport
The Expressway team wanted to focus on creating the best customer experience for their online and on-board service. They knew that jumping straight into development wasn’t the way to go.
We worked closely with their team to understand their customers' needs and visualise their future customer journey.
Through comprehensive user research we identified current pain points and we used ideation to turn these into opportunities that would not only improve the customer experience but also meet their business goals and drive revenue.
To meet the goals of this project, we proposed a 3-part programme through a series of stakeholder workshops and user interviews to uncover opportunities, explore future state and create the design experience. This was then used to create a development plan to deliver on these.
Through a number of online workshops, the team mapped the current journey, gained insights from user research, built up customer personas, uncovered opportunities and explored ideas on how to solve pain points and create a future service blueprint. The output informed a clear roadmap of activities to deliver on both customer and business needs.
The team were able to gain insights from real users that were set a task of booking travel using remote research tools. The team also interviewed users directly and obtained quantitative feedback through a survey.
Highlights from the research showed the challenges that users had like switching between applications such as Google Maps to complete their journey booking. Easy access to information is critical to ensuring a good user experience.
Collecting, analysing and translating research & data into highlights, patterns, and insights led us to some key insights for each journey stage. All the insights were explored and used as input to the future service blueprint.
The team worked on identifying key roadmap items, prioritising them on impact & effort allowing us to create a roadmap of immediate (MVP), Near term and Future items.
The roadmap items aren’t exclusive to the digital service but cross the end to end journey considering operational processes, marketing campaigns and commercial opportunities.
Andrew Yates, Ancillary Revenue Manager at Bus Eireann
The design system was created to give a full “kit of parts” or components to be used to develop any digital channel going forward. It ensures consistency across all channels, and allows you to rapidly design and prototype new features.
The design system was created to give a full “kit of parts” or components to be used to develop any digital channel going forward. It ensures consistency across all channels, and allows you to rapidly design and prototype new features.
Using the future service blueprint and best design practice, we created a prototype of the app and web journey.
To create a great experience, you have to take a holistic view of the overall customer journey, not just focus on the digital part. We worked with Expressway to map out their end-to-end service, capturing all interactions, systems and processes.
We carried out contextual user research with real coach users to understand the high and lows of their experience. This helped us to identify what areas to focus on. Whether it was processes, systems or people. Then we looked at how we could improve the digital channels to address these.
During the project, we were asked to look at ways the ticket vending machines could engage customers more clearly and concisely while still meeting business goals.
We wanted a consistent look and feel to the interface and this was achieved by developing our design system to include the ticket user interface components.
Our approach was to devise the best technical architecture, support the best customer experience and provide the foundation on which digital channels could be extended in the future. For this purpose, we proposed a serverless architecture for the development of the system, based on the AWS Well-Architected program.
Our plan was to enable easy integration of 3rd parties going forward and make it easy to extend the platform for wider use within the group, not only for Expressway.
The MVP prototype was used as the basis of the development plan to deliver on cost and timelines.
We have proposed a development plan to deliver on Expressway goals.
A plan we can progress together in partnership, delivering on what’s required today but also in the future.
As well as providing ongoing support for the delivered system, we will continue to shape this roadmap, prioritising features based on real customer feedback while exploring the future of coach transport with future-thinking workshops.
We’re ready to start the conversation however best suits you - on the phone at
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