SAAS, B2B, LOGISTICS
Revamped Delivery Management software for last mile delivery ecosystem that powers up 100+ million deliveries of 14,000+ merchants in 15 countries.
Followed by the rebrand of OneClick Delivery to Lyve, the company aims to refresh the look and feel of their platform and improve the usability of it. It is also a great opportunity to rethink its UX strategy from product standpoint since it's launched years ago. I partnered with cross-team and merchants to evaluate nGage as general as well as finding opportunities from UX standpoint.
We worked in Agile environment with biweekly sprints, using Figma as our collaboration tools between designers, PMs and tech team. Product team set up weekly discussion to do internal reviews for our early prototypes then invited senior stakeholders to get involved in our feedback and iteration process.
✱ I was involved in end-to-end UX process and led the generative research effort.
✱ Moderated design facilitation with internal operations team and clients from Oman, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Cyprus.
✱ Conducted ethnography research with clients from F&B (KFC, Pizza Hut and Burger King) and Grocery (Carrefour NOW) verticals.
✱ Led the DIY (Do It Yourself) onboarding feature from discovery to subscription journey.
✱ Conceptualized Zone Controller early designs.
In 60-min semi-structured interviews, I managed to get a glimpse of users' customer journey, frustration and challenges, and their overall experience with the platform.
I did field study to merchants to see how dispatcher, driver and command center staffs operate and communicate in their natural environment.
In parallel I did competitive analysis with direct and in-direct competitors to understand the current market's needs and wants.
To understand the revamp scope and its problem statement, I did a co-creation session with product, marketing, sales, and customer success team to strengthen product knowledge and understand their goals and motivations with this revamp.
Context Mastery
I moderated in-depth interview sessions to understand users' general feeling towards the current product, understand use case/scenario and evaluate shared pain points. Participants vary from power users to early adopters.
Desk Research
To understand the current market and product strengths/weakness, I did competitive analysis with direct and in-direct competitors, also meet with customer success team to strengthen product knowledge and understand unsubscription factors.
Ways of Working
We worked in 2-weeks sprints, using Figma as our collaboration tools between designers, PMs and tech team. Product team set up weekly discussion to do internal reviews for our early prototypes after generative research is completed.
Participant criteria: external clients and internal operations team, people who deal with the platform quite often.
Output: affinity mapping.
Participant criteria: external clients and internal operations team, people who deal with the platform quite often.
Output: affinity mapping.
Participant criteria: external clients and internal operations team, people who deal with the platform quite often.
Output: affinity mapping.
I started off by doing stakeholder interview with both managerial and operational team from clients, also chatting with sales team to understand the customer experience flow from introduction, demo session and trying to understand user's thought process before and after subscription. On parallel, I also do Heuristic Evaluation with other designers to take notes of usability issues.
Then, through several 60-min semi-structured IDIs(participants are gathered from merchants and internal operation team), I managed to get a glimpse of users' customer journey, challenges with the current platform, and insights about how the environment influences their usage.
Together with PM, we prioritize each insights based on effort x impact metrics.
Trying out direct and non-direct competitor products and looking at user-submitted reviews helps me to get insights of each product’s pros and cons in real-life context. nGage is currently operating within different countries and regions through and focused mostly on corporate accounts, and with this revamp the company aims to cater to SMEs.
OnFleet provide the most intuitive and easy-to-use platform amongst the competitor. The map design on the dashboard was structural and each label is easy to understand.
They supported route optimization and forecast displayed directly in the map interface. It's the only provider that can enable dark mode and few customizations.
The app makes it possible to collect proof of delivery seamlessly and collect cash on delivery orders. It's also easy to connect to either driver/customer service agent with integrated communication.
Sufficient training material for new users, however it's very complex and the software has some nuances that can only be learned with time. There's also feedback collection form for customers.
Dispatch and driver interface was easy to understand from the get-go. Simple and easy to navigate around.
Dispatch and driver interface was easy to understand from the get-go. Lack of customization.
Flexibility offered on geofencing , currency and languages making it ideal for businesses who wants to step on globally. Users are not big fan of
Documentation and live support agents are helpful. Provided lots of templates depending on business use. Great option for SME.
Easy-to-use, there's a lot of great visibility in terms of real-time tracking
Few users complained about very little info being displayed as part of tracking and having to click in more than one section to get information
Accuracy of deliveries, data report analytics really helps user strategize their next SaaS journey
Some technical bugs are still quite dominating the CX journey
Based on field visit to merchants, I observe closely how dispatcher, driver and command center staffs operate and communicate in their natural environment through Americana pooling stores in Sharjah and Carrefour NOW warehouse Deira. Here is some simplified blueprint map I put together that also illustrate workarounds the staffs need to do while using our platform and their internal tools.
Merchant's staff who works either in dedicated or pooling stores. They will be responsible to handle not only dispatch delivery orders but also dine-in affairs.
They are equipped with computer and TV display to see drivers' queue and begin order preparation. When working alone, they will handle customer complaints and order assignment delays.
Manager works closely with dispatcher to fulfill delivery time for the sake of maintaining their KPI and ensuring order tracking sent to customers are updated real-time.
It is important for them to get in touch with operation office especially on peak hours, track and monitor the order journey until it's handed to customers and handle delays on order preparation to packing.
Command center staff manages and monitors existing orders through operational office.
They also plan delivery capacities based on order density in different areas. That's why it's important for them not to miss any notifications, be able to analyze and visualize the orders efficiently find multiple drivers and orders at the same time and be in touch with drivers to resolve problems.
Improve number of qualifying leads with less time to sign up and onboard clients
Help new and existing customers to learn more about product offering
There is no standalone registration process where user can onboard themselves into the platform without any help from the customer support team. Currently, nGage flow of acquiring new customers is by approaching manually and being a real pain for both sales and tech support, as it takes a lot of time and effort to complete one single acquisition.
Technical bugs quite often dominates the discussion when doing user interviews. Some usability issues that I found during expert reviews also often get overlooked because of these concerns. Usability evaluation also cannot come first because some users are still confused when navigating the platform, proving that the product knowledge is low. A lot of research effort ends up influencing roadmap and product decisions, such as started building responsive designs, increase search and filters' usability and build better flow for products, expert reviews on existing products and many more.
Too many maps interface that dispatcher/command center staffs need to go back and forth when tracking and monitoring orders. This can be a big issue when dispatcher/operational staffs are trying to track orders in rush hours.
Firstly, orders had been reaching customers late due to time-leaks in assigning orders to a large fleet, as well as inefficient route planning. Moreover, it was always difficult to assess where delays were originating from – the kitchen’s preparation time, the time taken by drivers to reach the pickup stores, or the delivery time – leaving little possibility for optimization. The second challenge was the inability to track drivers in real-time and to manage and evaluate their efficiency and general productivity due to the lack of a measurement tool – making it difficult to enhance for better customer service.
Combining map visualization with order grid makes sense because it makes it easier to identify the distance, do order clubbing and assignment more efficiently, with just one click to switch/toggle between views rather than resorting to 3 different maps.
Challenges:
✱ Static-first as they will be placed in a TV/monitor in stores without much supervision
✱ Informative and without leaving out important attributes from previous design
Onboarding Experience
Educational Onboarding
...to observe the task completion rate for onboarding and subscription, various tasks in the new revamped maps
...design improvements based on the next research efforts and collected user feedbacks (touchpoint metrics), refined the design systems
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