In-class exercise: counts toward participation
Source: Similar exercise introduced at General Assembly “Branding in the Digital Age” with Rachel Gadiel
Overview
Customer journey maps help organizations understand how customer’s make decisions. The journey maps provide a mechanism to evaluate all touch points with the customer (face-to-face, email, digital engagement, phone, text, etc.), and identify weak points or areas of opportunity.
The Task
Your canvas:
For this task you will work in your 310 teams to journey map your decision to attend WSU. Each team has been given a large sheet of butcher paper to recreate the graphic below. You have also been given markers and post-it notes.
Things to include on the map:
- Triggers: Events that happen that impact your customer (e.g. need new furniture, favorite product broken and needs to be replaced)
- Touchpoints: Interactions between the organization and the customer (e.g. visiting your site, making a purchase on your site, liking a post, perusal of customer reviews)
- Highs & Lows: Use of emoji’s and pictures to indicate the good stuff, challenging moments, or negative experiences
- Actions: What your customer does along the way (e.g. organic search, visits store, submits a customer review)
- Internal Dialogue: What the customer thinks and feels throughout (e.g. worries, excitement, impatient, anxiety)
This is a guided activity – wait for prompts from the instructor!
Example: Uber
Infographic: Customer Journey Layers
Graphic Source: Bright Vessel
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