Unified Portal Experience

Unified Portal Experience

Addressed fractures in Dell's online post sale customer experience with a focus on AI integration.

Addressed fractures in Dell's online post sale customer experience with a focus on AI integration.

ROLE

Designer

TEAM

Services CX R&D a future concept team

Services CX R&D a future concept team

MEMBERS

Eric — Co-designer

Simha — Co-designer

Craig — Researcher

Molly — Researcher

Todd — PM

Eric — Co-designer

Simha — Co-designer

Craig — Researcher

Molly — Researcher

Todd — PM

SKILLS

Visual Design

Concept Design

Interaction Design

Storytelling

Visual Design

Concept Design

Interaction Design

Storytelling

TOOLS

Figma

FigJam

UserTesting

Figma

FigJam

UserTesting

TIMELINE

Feb. 2024 - Present

Feb. 2024 - Present

Unified Portal Experience

Addressed fractures in Dell's online post sale customer experience with a focus on AI integration.

ROLE

Designer

TEAM

Services CX R&D

a future concept team

MEMBERS

Eric

Co-designer

Simha — Co-designer

Craig — Researcher

Molly — Researcher

Todd

PM

SKILLS

Visual Design

Concept Design

Interaction Design

Storytelling

TOOLS

Figma

FigJam

UserTesting

TIMELINE

Feb. 2024 - Present

Project Overview

After purchasing from Dell Technologies, customers are directed to the after point of sale (APOS) experience, which is essentially a culmination of various portals. Teams at Dell recognized that this is not ideal for customers.

This initiative aims to address the fractures in our APOS customer experience, streamlining and simplifying the experience to make our capabilities more discoverable, intuitive, and delightful to use. This program covers numerous portals and is expected to be an ongoing effort over the next couple of years. While it has many moving parts and involves different teams across the organization, my team was focused on designing the North Star (future) vision of this experience.

I will highlight my design contributions below. Alongside my two co-designers Eric and Simha, we designed how we saw the different portals fitting together in a cohesive experience—identifying gaps, questioning existing decisions, and thinking of ways to innovate (including using AI).

SPOILERS! A SNEAK PEAK…

Our Vision

Video: A preview of our latest North Star vision high-fidelity prototype and some of the features I designed.

1 | MOTIVATION

Image: What the APOS experience looks like today - 15 different portals

Image: What the APOS experience looks like today - 15 different portals

What inspired this project?

Dell's current APOS customer experience increases cognitive burden for users and affects the perception of how easy it is to do business with Dell. While fractures are a natural result of growth (especially growth through mergers and acquisitions), addressing these issues now prevents them from becoming more complex as the ecosystem expands.

Our goal was to identify and unify similar capabilities across different parts of the ecosystem, presenting them in a consistent and user-friendly interface.

Our Goal

My team was tasked with standardizing and unifying these capabilities by creating micro frontends (MFEs) and designing what it would look like if these capabilities are integrated into a cohesive experience.


Thus, we asked

How might we simplify the APOS experience to minimize confusion and cognitive load?

How might we simplify the APOS experience to minimize confusion and cognitive load?

How might we simplify the APOS experience to minimize confusion and cognitive load?

This project is still in progress.

If you are interested in learning more about my experience, please send me an email!

MY OTHER PROJECTS:

Enhanced post-purchase communications for a better buying experience on Dell.com.

Designed UI kits to enable rapid concept development for all teams at Dell Technologies.

Holly Lee 2024