MICE Portal

MICE Portal is one of the leading event portals in Germany and Europe, offering various software products for purchasing and organizing events in a B2B environment.

My responsibilities include:

  • Running primary and secondary user research
  • Developing customer journeys, wireframes, storyboards, screen flows & interactive prototypes
  • Designing mobile-friendly User Interfaces – always with a human-first approach
  • Maintaining and organizing our Design library, always having our brand identity in mind
  • Working closely with technical stakeholders and developers
  • Conducting usability testing
  • Organizing and facilitating Design Thinking workshops
client
MICE Portal (B2B SaaS platform)
Tools
Invision, Sketch

The old, the bad, the ugly

One of my favorite projects was the redesign of the series booking process. B2B customer service informed me that this process has a particularly high volume of requests from event managers as well as hotel staff: Users are not clear how to create and manage a serial booking, which often leads to frustration. Based on this, I conducted research to uncover the specific pain points. After initial interviews, the extent of the problem became clear and, together with Product Owner and IT, we decided to redesign the series booking process to make it more user-friendly – and human centered.

Initial research

I created a research plan, conducted user interviews and evaluated the feedback I received from my colleagues from B2B customer service. This allowed me to gather a number of valuable feedbacks that revealed crucial pain points and issues. To sum it up:

  • „There are often so many buttons, I don’t know where to click“
  • „The booking process takes a lot of time and is intransparent to me“
  • „I have the feeling that the same information is often asked several times“
  • „We would often have to make subsequent changes, which is not possible (at least we do not know how)

Customer Journey Mapping

Outlining the current processes and visualizing what our users / customers are experiencing in real time. This helped me connect with our customers and understand how I can prioritize the customer experience (CX)

User Flows

Working on a user flow canvas together with the IT department in order to figure out what path the customer currently takes – and how it could be improved. Where along the way are blockers or painpoints? Data from Google Analytics was very helpful here

Jobs to be done

Combining all research findings and feedback, I defined the following jobs to be done. As this project is about redesigning an existing process which was implemented before I had started at MICE Portal, the old solution was created based solely on technical needs, not respecting UI or UX principles.

Create a user friendly process. Needs to be clear and intuitive

Define a clear naming of terms: especially within the series booking process, this is crucial

Work closely with IT to find out which information provided by the user is needed and which is redundant

Make use of the data we collect

Wireframing

I sketched wireframes for both sides of the booking process: the event manager and the hotel staff – to get an idea of what the solution could look like. After discussing them with IT and PO I moved further to the actual User Interface Design.

User Interface Design

Check out my interactive prototype here

User Testing

I conducted 5 sessions of moderated user tests using TestingTime & Usertests.com in order to see how users interact with the new prototype. As the software solution should be useful not only for users who are familiar with our product, I conducted the tests with randomly selected participants from all over Germany. Those tests helped me to see what worked well and what did not, and made it possible for me to refine my designs.

Feedback

The new tool is online by now and the project was a great success: we got lots of positive feedback from our customers on both sides.
During the next weeks we will closely monitor data via Google Analytics – and presume to see figures such as the bounce rate decline.

Another one

Booking Wizard

A different project, same approach: I redesigned our event booking process and made it intuitive & easy to use for our customers.
That’s why we called it the wizard! 🧙‍♂️
It seems the tool can read our customers mind – and guide them through the booking process in no time!

Check it out here