Luxury Customer Research
When: January – March 2021
Where: De Bijenkorf
My role: Led the cross department alignment on all research
Delivered: Personas, Customer journey maps, Service Blue Print, Design Sprints
Due to stores being closed, we needed to explore how we could define a high-end experience online matching the store experience for this customer segment.
Methodology:
- Defined the target group
- Investigated online and offline de Bijenkorf luxury customers’ shopping behavior (profiling from customer insights & analytics data).
- Deep dived into luxury buyers’ motivations, pains and gains with qualitative and quantitative interviews
- Interviewed experts to gain expert views into customers’ behavior and business infrastructure. Store inspiration day.
- Reviewed competitors, their strengths and weaknesses.
- Analyzed and structured all insights in Customer Journey Map
Goals: Data driven understanding of our luxury customer & business opportunities
Discovery Research Process
Discovery Research
Defined the methodology and led the alignment of cross-department qualitative and quantitative research.
Personas
Coordinated qualitative and quantitative data research that led to creating 3 customer personas.
Journey Map
Highlighted all insights on a customer journey map showing the persona pain points & opportunities.
Discovery research
Benchmark competitors & customer data
My role in the project was to lead and manage the cross – department team of various researchers exploring the luxury customer domain. I organized alignment sessions, defined the methodology, and brought together all of the questions we had regarding customers into the aligned research findings.
In order to define Personas, we wanted to understand first the current competitor landscape, then understand our current customers. Thus we conducted the following:
- Competitor analysis
- Data analysis (Google analytics, session cam analysis, survey results, etc)
- User focus groups
My Role: Facilitating research, defining milestones, defining research questions
Defined Personas
Interpret data
From all of the data we had gathered, I led a small brainstorm session with a fellow UX researcher where we defined 3 customer types. We kept in mind the end goal of the research we were conducting when defining the personas so that all relevant possible customer types were covered.
After the brainstorm session, I further refined the personas and created the persona visual you see here showing the key characteristics.
My role: Facilitating brainstorm, Final Persona Visual Design
Customer Journey Map
Defined journeys based on the 3 personas
In order to visualize the current pain points and opportunities, I coordinated the collection of all research into one customer journey map. My role was to define the overall template for the data for the UX researcher who then drafted the customer journey flow based on the insights. The end result was a cross-department team effort that we then shared with over 100 colleagues.
My role: research coordination, journey map template
What did we do from there?
Define Action
Focused on defining the actions & scope for each team based on the relevant research findings.
Brainstorm
Design Sprints & Service Blue Prints
Within the e-commerce department, I helped each of the 5 squads understand the scope relevant for their team. Together with the UX designer within the squads, I helped to coordinate either Design Sprints or Service Blue Print brainstorm sessions.
I worked as a UX designer within one of the squads where the end result was a Service Blue Print which we used to define the areas of the system that needed the most changes in order to provide the luxury customer experience we desired.
My role: help other teams understand their scope, Service Blue Print facilitation
