Know What to Build, for Who, and Why - And Track Your Success
How do you decide where to spend your design and development dollars? Is every point of friction equally bad? Does every moment of gratification deliver the same impact on your KPIs and bottom lines? What if you had a precise map showing you how people move through moments of getting things done– the very things your organization exists to serve?
Journey Maps are a Powerful Tool
Gaining a better understanding of your customers and their needs, wants, and habits, and helps you pinpoint where your experience fits into their lives. How well are you meeting needs at each step? Where are there opportunities to optimize the customer relationship? What unmet needs exist in the market, for which you could develop a better product or experience?
A journey map is a visual representation of the steps a person takes in order to accomplish something, presented in sequential order. The most impactful journey maps include descriptions of what the person is thinking and feeling at key moments along the way. The map helps you understand moments of their experience in context– when, where, how, and why they experience these key moments. A good journey map will cover how a person moves from the very first time they realized a need, through their search for ways to address and satisfy that need. A good customer journey map will capture not only the moment they become aware of your solution, but also the comparative and complimentary products (even solutions already at hand). It carries through the moments of purchasing and using your product, troubleshooting, tweeting about it– even moments when your product comes to mind and they don't interact with it. A good customer journey map gives you a broad and complete overview of the universe of need in which your offering exists.
At its core, a journey map is a visual storyboard that helps you understand a customer’s journey, as seen through their eyes. It's a powerful tool that can help you identify customer pain points and create solutions to meet their needs. It also helps you identify opportunities to improve their experience of your product, service, or organization.
Grounded in Customer Research, Guided By Experience
At its core, a journey map is a visual storyboard that helps you understand a customer’s journey, as seen through their eyes. It's a powerful tool that can help you identify customer pain points and create solutions to meet their needs. It also helps you identify opportunities to improve their experience of your product or service.
Our approach is focused on developing and executing a comprehensive and focused Customer Research Plan to help you discover and validate your audience's needs, perspectives, desires and motivations.
We then work with you to develop a Customer Journey Map which:
- Clearly identifies each discrete stage of the Customer Journey, giving you insight into how people approach your product
- Outlines specific questions and Jobs to Be Done that customers encounter along that Journey, to identify opportunities for competitive advantage and differentiation
- Aligns each of the Interaction Points where customers encounter your product or experience along their Journey
- Defines specific, trackable metrics to measure the impact your product or experience is having at each step in the Customer Journey
- Includes a comprehensive Research Plan to help you experiment, validate, and improve on your experience.
We'll work with you to develop - or refine - your product roadmap so that it more closely aligns with your customers' needs and expectations, and prioritizes the features that customers will find most valuable.
You Don't Have to Wait for Us - Start Building Your Journey Map Today
If you're curious about how Customer Journey Maps work, and how useful they can be for your organization, you don't have to wait for us to get started.
We built a self-service tool, PaiXon.io, that you can use to generate your own Customer Journey Map.
We've even connected it to OpenAI, so you don't have to start with a blank slate: create an account, start a new project, and ask the AI to generate a starter map for you!
