At Imarc we are passionate about solving complex problems and challenges. When we were selected to collaborate with JetBlue on rethinking and redesigning their intranet HelloJetBlue we were psyched! Working on a project that can streamline processes, help people do their jobs more effectively and efficiently, is just the type of gig that gets us excited.
It’s easy to overlook a valuable UX solution or pain point if you are not talking to users; so we did that early and often. We kicked off by attending the airline’s two-day new hire orientation at JetBlue University. We also Interviewed subject matter experts and surveyed 2,300 Crewmembers in various roles throughout the company; helping us get a better understanding and a diversity of user needs that ultimately informed the design. If users are not top of mind, we as strategists would have been designing to our own assumptions, which is informed by our own expertise and knowledge of best practices - but this would have only gotten us so far.
Throughout the course of the project the team continued to constantly keep in mind those who would be using the tool, across which platforms and for what reasons. We hung up our personas on the whiteboard and revisited these user types before we sketched any ideas. We were champions for the users.
The following are some key areas of our work where we connected with Crewmembers, and asked them to provide their feedback on a new and improved user experience.
GATHER FEEDBACK - LET USERS BREAK
- Information Architecture - Imarc drafted a new site map with the goal of evolving the way content was organized for the last 10+ years. Once complete we tested against by asking a series of simple tasks and where within the site navigation might a user find the content.
- Paper Prototypes - To make sure the interaction design was intuitive we created a series of questions and asked users to identify where on the paper comps example “What was the last thing you did on HelloJetBlue and how would you do that with the new screens?”
- Functionality Card Sorts - All Crewmembers were given 3 post-its and were asked to place them on the HelloJetBlue pain points that are most relevant to them.
- Brand Exercises - We looked at the new design and the 5 JetBlue brand values (Nice / Fresh / Smart / Stylish / Witty). We tried to get crewmembers to speak to a brand value and how that value could be represented on the new HelloJetBlue.
With a solid user experience strategy in place and vetted by Crewmembers, it was time to dive into developing persona-based user journeys for HelloJetBlue users.
Stay tuned for what we’ve got coming next in the journey of HelloJetBlue.
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