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Understanding Self-Service User Behavior

September 18, 2024 The Understanding Group
Partial images of two user journey maps
 

Challenge

SoftCo. provides mission-critical software to modern software development teams. Early product designs were driven by SoftCo’s innate understanding of their user, but as they grew, they wanted to develop a research-based perspective to increase their product’s performance.

Approach

We focused on the self-service onboarding experience, a known problem area for one of their primary products. In collaboration with SoftCo.’s Director of Research, TUG designed a 13-week qualitative study across three phases, involving 24 users, to understand the nature of the problems.

 
The three phases of the 13-week project
 
 

Solution

The research identified two primary mindsets, each with distinct needs and different onboarding journeys. TUG mapped these onboarding journeys to put the research findings in context. The maps provided a clear way to understand the multi-faceted nature of the customer needs over time, allowing the SoftCo. design team to meaningfully apply research findings to solve the most important problems.

Two customer journey maps
“I love how thorough it was and the approach overall; the end result was great.”

Outcome

After presenting the two mindset journey maps and identifying opportunities for improvement, TUG facilitated an exercise to prioritize actionable next-steps. The SoftCo. team grouped the projects and mapped them across four quadrants by difficulty and importance. This prioritization effort translated evidence-backed user needs and opportunities into a prioritized backlog of projects.

2x2 model of Difficulty relative to Importance
“Overall, the learnings were super insightful. We’re already using it for a project we’re doing. Basically, we need to do more of this.”
 

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