A full UCD project to encourage self-serivce

To meet these objectives, we performed a full user-centred design project, employing a range of activities from our service offering. Working within agile process with Computacenter’s key stakeholders, activities included:

• Depth interviews across a range of departments within an enterprise-level organisation to understand their context of use with support services. 25 one-on-one interviews were carried out for 30 minutes each with participants from UK and Germany. 10 telephone interviews (4 from Germany and 6 from UK) and 15 face to face interviews (All UK)
• Onsite immersion at an IT support call centre, observing and interviewing technical support staff, to understand the nature of calls they receive, the problems they need to address and the systems they use
• Online surveys were carried out with UK and German audiences to uncover quantitative insights into their behaviours and attitudes towards IT support services. Close to 1,000 people completed the survey
• Sketch Personas were created from the research outputs to focus design activities around the key user types of IT support services and their needs
• Iterative Design – starting with initial paper-based sketches and user journey mapping, through to medium fidelity wireframes and a clickable prototype
• Two rounds of task-based online testing with participants using clickable Axure prototypes. Included 12 participants in 30-minute sessions. Findings were incorporated back into the design process to refine the prototype
• Graphic Design – turning the final wireframes into an elegant, white label design product that Computacenter could sell to their clients