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Duration

Jun - Sept /2022

Responsibilities

End-to-end: research, ideation, flows, wireframes, mockups, hi-fi design, implementation, iteration.

Results

• B2B team increased customer acquisition by 12% post-launch.
• Decreased customer churn by 7%

My Impact

01

Single handedly delved deep into research and made sure to communicate findings to stakeholders so that the team was informed and decisions could be cataloged and backed up.


02

As the Product Owner of our Scrum team, I have managed the project's backlog and collaborated with engineers to prioritise features and plan releases.


Strategic Vision

Support charities through receiving customer bequests and giving them both the voice and the tools to make strategic efforts to create relationships with their bequestors.


Overview

Charities have a dashboard to track their bequests with Safewill


Safewill works with charities such as the Cancer Council and Unicef to give them exposure in the Will-making flow at app.safewill.com. Users making their Will can then leave a part of their estate to charities.

Charities then need to visualise those bequests to understand who is leaving a part of their estate for them.


Problem

Charities want to better allocate their resources and nurture relationships with their bequestors


Charities often face challenges in visualising and analysing bequests, understanding their campaign performance, and gaining insights into their user demographics. Without adequate tools, they struggled to optimise their fundraising efforts and efficiently allocate resources.

Our goal was to bridge this gap by understanding what was important for charities when wanting to have relationships with their bequestors and analysing a marketing campaign.


Solution

Enable charities to make better decisions with their resources and nurture important relationships with bequestors


Enable better feedback in marketing campaigns

Charities do not have a lot of capital to work with. That means it is of utmost importance to properly allocate their resources, and a lot of that comes with making decisions based on what is working and what isn’t.

Create a picture of their bequestor

Enabling charities to understand who their ‘customer’ is so that they can nurture relationships with them so that these users donate is one of the best ways to raise revenue and fight for the cause for a charity.


Initial Thinking

What really matters to our charity partners?


In the initial stages of our project, we realised that creating a user-friendly and data-driven dashboard would require a deep understanding of the needs and pain points faced by charities in managing their bequests and campaigns effectively.

We sought to leverage technology to provide a solution that would enable charities to visualise their data, analyse trends, and make informed strategic decisions.

Assumptions

We began the project with a set of assumptions, including the belief that charities would greatly benefit from having access to real-time data and actionable insights.

We assumed that by streamlining data collection and visualisation, we could empower charities to optimise their campaigns, identify trends, and better understand their bequestor base. However, we recognised the need to validate these assumptions through user research and testing.

Hypothesis

Our hypothesis was that by providing charities with a user-friendly dashboard that offers intuitive data visualisation, advanced analytics, and demographic insights, we could empower them to enhance their fundraising efforts, drive greater engagement, and make data-driven decisions for more effective resource allocation.


Target Customer

The customers we were trying to empathise with

The primary target users for our charity dashboard were the staff and stakeholders of the partner charities.

These individuals would include fundraising managers, marketing teams, and executive directors who are responsible for overseeing and optimising the organisations fundraising campaigns and managing bequests.


Diving Deep into the Problem

After understanding who our customer was, it was time to empathise with them

Primary research method: user interviews

Goals
• How they use the Safewill Dashboard
• What problem the Dashboard solves for them
• What are their biggest challenges with it
• What they would like to see in it and why

Secondary research method: sales and customer success teams

I, other designers, and engineers caught up with sales and customer success teams a few times to understand some of their noted feature requests, pain points, and general comments made by charities.

The goal with these meetings was to:
• Correlate pain points found with users to insights sales and CS teams had noted
• List out feature requests and the reasons as to why the customer wanted/needed these features
• Understand their sales strategy going into the next 12-18 months and how it related back to company vision to then translate that vision into the next iteration

Findings / Pain Points

01

Charities were after more marketing campaign data visualisation so that they could take better decisions.

02

Charities feel like they lack exposure and therefore awareness. Since Safewill provides exposure to them, they'd like to focus more on relationships with already existing bequestors.

03

Charities would like to have more integrations with applications so that they can leverage bequestor data to take better, more informed decisions.


Problem Statement

After the empathising with our customer, I and the team were able to state the problem better

How Might We...
· Provide charities with intuitive data visualisation to understand their bequests and campaign performance?
· Streamline the reporting process to save time and effort for charities?
· Enable charities to gain actionable insights into their user demographics?



Wireframes

Translating our ideas into tangible designs


High-Fidelity Design

Design solution

01

Streamlined, real-time bequest data

Increasing our data pipeline capabilities in order enable our customer to visualise and make good use out of that data had the goal to add a lot of value to charities.


02

Improved campaign visualisation

Increasing our data pipeline capabilities in order enable our customer to visualise and make good use out of that data had the goal to add a lot of value to charities.


03

Nurturing relationships with bequestors

In order to nurture relationships with people who want to give for them, charities need to invest on their relationships. In order to do that, they need to have the proper tools to do so.


Data Privacy

Protecting our user’s data

Obviously, it isn’t because our user leaves a part of their Estate to a charity of their choice that they want to share their details with that charity. We took (and still take) data privacy very seriously.

Charities can see bequests and demographic data from users, but unless the user chooses to share their information with the charity they’ll donate to, their details are redacted.


Learnings

What I learned on this initiative

1. Intentional frugality is powerful

We often think resources are extremely important to achieve something. Although they make a difference, there is so much that can be done without that.

2. Small increments are very powerful

My team managed to achieve so much in a very small amout of time due to proper project and user story management and delivery. Small increments will always win vs larger scopes.


Next Steps

What we’ll focus on next

1. More tools to take advantage of data

The dashboard's exporting tools and other featuers to take advantage of data are not optimal. We'll be focusing on that now to keep delivering our partners with improved decision-making.