UX research & redesign for BAT Glo*
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Industry:
TobaccoService:
DiscoveryLocation:
UkraineWe’ve conducted a profound Discovery for a well-known brand of tobacco heating devices – glo – to improve its user experience & increase product’s performance.
We’ve conducted a profound Discovery for a well-known brand of tobacco heating devices – glo – to improve its user experience & increase product’s performance.
Analysis & research
- Vision Workshop
- Research
- Stakeholders interviews
- CJM
- Prioritization session
Prototype creation
User testing
UX research
- UX research strategy
- Website UX audit
- Call center analysis
- Usability testing
About BAT
British American Tobacco (BAT) in Ukraine is a part of a global tobacco Group. Its products include cigarettes, tobacco, and other nicotine brands such as the tobacco heating device glo.
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13,9B UAH taxes paid in 2019 only
British American Tobacco (BAT) in Ukraine is a part of a global tobacco Group. Its products include cigarettes, tobacco, and other nicotine brands such as the tobacco heating device glo.
Summary
BAT came to improve glo user experience
Started as a Discovery for glo mobile app, we also made a UX research of glo website for its further redesign & took focus on PWA instead. Why? At that moment, PWA was the most efficient way to fix product's current pains & boost its performance.
Vision Workshop
We held a 2-hour interactive session to inline project outcomes
We started Discovery by building a shared vision of a future product. For this, we conducted a Vision Workshop – a 2-hour interactive session with BAT stakeholders – where we identified main challenges and supports of the product.
Challenges
glo's external and internal
challenges
Supports
glo's growth supports
& boosters
Research
Our next step was glo research
Google Analytics Research
Analysing GA reports, we defined which user types bring more revenue to business, their behavior patterns and most frequent requests.
Competitor Research
Using available public data, we examined glo’s competitors on global & local markets, their performance, features, design, users needs & much more.
Benchmark Research
The team researched industry benchmarks, their main blockers & success factors.
Telegram Bot Research
We’ve analyzed 100+ user sessions & identified top problems glo customers reach out with.
Stakeholders interviews
We interviewed BAT stakeholders to discover their business needs
We needed to define how the future product could satisfy business needs of each BAT stakeholder. So, we held inteviews with each of them to inline their expectations & vision of the app.
Customer Journey Map
To build glo's CJM, we had deep interviews with its users
Before building customer journey map, our UX designer conducted deep user interviews. They allowed us to define glo customers’ profiles, their gains & pains, what they lack now and might need in the app.
User Profile
Type of glo User
Interviewed about:
- ways of interacting with glo
- current pains, challenges, needs
- vision and suggestions for the future app
Prototyping
After prioritization session, we created user stories & user flows
Based on the outcomes of the prioritization session we held together with stakeholders, the team created app’s user stories & described user flows.
Age verification
With age verification functionality, customers are able to confirm their eligibility to use tobacco heating device.
Onboarding
We prepared quick & detailed Onboarding flow to help users learn what they can do inside the app.
Registration & Login
We added simple Signup & Login via phone number to let customers enter the app faster.
User profile
We let users add & edit their personal details (first name and surname, date of birth, gender, addresses etc.) in the profile.
Support & Contacts
Inside the app, users can reach out the Contact Center whenever needed. We also made Contact information of Support always available.
Invite friends
We added invitation functionality which enables customers to invite a friend to join an app or the Loyalty program via a link.
Glo Bonus Club
With it, users can track available bonuses, ways to earn new bonuses & exchange them for glo products.
Order Status
Status visibility feature enables users to track the status of current orders in the mobile application.
Map of glo shops
We added map of glo shops which allows customers to see places where they can buy glo products & select nearest points of sale with devices or sticks they need.
New approach
Instead of a mobile app, we focused on PWA & UX research of glo website
After testing prototype with users &validating customers' business needs, we revealed new tech risks. It appeared that mobile app can’t fully meet user needs.
Yet, creating PWA might. Besides, as a tobacco-related product, glo mobile app would face serious limitations in the app stores. So, we focused on PWA & improving conversion of glo's website instead.
UX research strategy
Our UX research aimed to detect glo website’s pain points
To detect website’s pain points & improve its conversion, we did a UX research. Its scope included website UX audit, interviews with call center employees, user interviews and usability testing.
Website UX Audit
- User Scenarios created
- UX Heuristics analyzed
- Design Principles checked
Call-center Interviews
- Website Efficiency
- Customers` Pains on the Website
- Website Blind Spots
Usability Tests
- User Scenarios
- Hypotheses Created & Checked
General Report
- Updated Prototype
- List of current UX Problems
- Technical Descriptions
- Examples and Fast Fixes
Website UX audit
First, we analyzed the website against 10 UX Heuristics
We held deep user interviews and website audit to outline customers’ pain points & needs.
Also, we checked it against 10 Usability Heuristics – like Fields & Forms, Login & Registration, Mobile UX, Visual Design & much more. For each category, we created the list of recommendations.
Call center analysis
Then, we focused on call center performance
Next, we’ve analyzed one of glo's main communication points – call center – by talking to its employees & customers who’ve used it.
Employees
3 respondents & 90 minutes each session
We held interviews with support employees to uncover critical issues users need help with.
Users
10 respondents & 45 minutes each session
We also talked to users to find out why they called to support center.
Usability testing
With usability testing, we checked formed hypotheses & gained insights
The last step of UX research was usability testing. Talking to glo’s users helped us check the formed hypotheses, gain valuable insights & finalize the research findings.
Results
During the Project, we've done:
- Competitors & Market
- GA & Website
- PWA vs Mobile App
- Benchmark & Telegram Bot
- 8 interviews with stakeholders
- 10 deep user interviews
- 3 interviews with employees of the call-center
- Offline Vision Workshop with stakeholders
- Prioritization session with BAT stakeholders
Clients review
“Thanks to the efforts of Fulcrum team, the company was able to gain valuable insight into the proposal, detected critical issues, and helped us prioritize what to do next.”