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CX and Service Design

Design Thinking Workshops at Google

Role

Lead Facilitator and Experience Designer

Timeframe

Ongoing for two years

Client

Cross-functional stakeholders from teams in the Hardware Organization

Goal

Guide product teams to understand the end-to-end customer journey with their product in order to design the ideal customer experience

Design Thinking Workshops at Google
Current-State Journey Maps and Service Blueprints Workshop

Goal: To evaluate and measure new experience initiatives.

Methods to achieve goal

  • Working with product and program leads to crystallize a customer-centric POV on customer experience business opportunities, based on insights about the current state
  • Using data about customers that drives future growth, the most critical end-to-end journeys, and business initiatives to visualize the experience
  • Collaborating with product teams to establish a baseline for each product and key touchpoint
Future-State Designing and Prototyping Workshop

Goal: To generate and co-create concepts for customer experience improvements and innovations.

Methods to achieve goal

  • Prototyping new concepts to test and validate ideas early, utilizing quick and flexible techniques
  • Collaborating with customer experience champions and cross-functional teams
Design thinking workshop in progress
Gap Analysis, Execution, and Planning Support Workshop

Goal: To identify opportunities — gaps between current and future state.

Methods to achieve goal

  • Supporting implementation and change management with communication tools and visualizations
  • Facilitating breakdown and documentation of work necessary to enable future vision
  • Collaborating with product team leads
Workshop collaboration session
Empower Stakeholders Workshop

Goal: To create a shared language and understanding within the Google Hardware organization that promotes customer centricity throughout all processes.

Methods to achieve goal

  • Sharing standard practices and tools utilized in the field
  • Refining and documenting the evolving formalized service design approach based on internal and external learnings
  • Influencing and further establishing a shared mental model and vocabulary for end-to-end customer experience through sprints and workshops
Empowering stakeholders workshop
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