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I head up the Ux and UI teams that plug into the core inhouse online team, this team of up to 25 designers has been a key component of the O2 team for over 6 years now – i created this model to help it work
We are ingrained in the brand, it’s customers, and the needs of the business working. Working across BAU journey optimisations and features. As well as CVPs, NPDs and the whole refactoring of their digital ecosystem – through an ongoing digital transformation program. Our remit in that is across app, web, and retail: customer service, ecommerce, call centre systems and ePOS. The experience of all this underpinned and powered by a design system, experience principles and currently in dev set of interaction patterns – we call Breathable UI.

The Need
O2 wants to make devices and connectivity easy to obtain, and empower you with services and experiences that you need, want, and will love.
And with that, the last 5 years have been about embracing ever-changing cultural and technology influences on customer needs, habits and expectations; and to use that insight to create and enhance the O2.co.uk ecosystem from the shop to the customer service portal; increasing adoption, engagement and satisfaction and in turn loyalty and revenue.
They now have the biggest customer base of all the UK networks and the highest NPS in the category but that comes with a lot of work to get there. And we work collaboratively as a blended team across not just ux and Ui, but across the business through their dev partners, marcomms, product owners, data team etc. We work across BAU work streams, NPD, Digital transformation and campaign activations.

Our challenge:
To iterate, optimise and evolve the services and revenue opportunities across O2.co.uk.

Our target audience:
a diverse set of users with varying levels of needs and expectations of their connected devices.

Our objective:
to provide seamless experiences; amplify engagement with our services; update and purchase products; and increase revenue across new and existing users.

How
We put customers at the heart of all that we design, iterate and deliver.

We design emotive, relevant & seamless engagement for new and existing users. With data-driven content and inclusive interfaces, we iterate platforms to provide tailored custom plans, AI-driven help, simplified purchase journeys, and holistic account self-servicing; delivering improved customer service and purchase experiences.

why
O2 was born out of the simplest human insight. Your phone is essential to your life, keeping you connected to what you love. What evolves is what we need and expect from O2; to always respond to new behaviours and expectations based on ever changing cultural and technological factors. By remaining committed to keeping people connected, we will always deliver experiences that serve these needs.

Powered By The Oxygen Design System. 

Now in its fifth year and about to move over to Figma from Sketch and Invision. The Oxygen Design System (ODS) is the foundations of all experience design across the O2 Digital ecosystem. Currently at 864 Atoms, 353 Molecules, 425 components & organisms, and 97 Templates. Governed and maintained by 3 designers, and used by 30+ designers.

It cover the experience and interaction design across platforms overalls and CRO, and proposition service design across web customer service, shop, & marketing,

but together with in-store retail POS and call centre systems interfaces within the “360 digital transformation” pipeline.

 

The system is a full integrated team library within the Sketch workflow, as well as an Invision DSM Monument Site of internal teams.

 

Taking this forward we are looking to extend the typically foundations of the design system with motion and interaction principles. I call this Breathable UI. A unique expression of the brand and interaction principles working together to make own able, recognisable user experiences.

Ambitions as we move into Figma is a full end to end delivery pipeline with engineering & development via Tokens and Storybook. But already the design System and our Design Ops based collaboration model helps drive Customer Value Proportions, Visioning, CRO, and general Innovation and Communication between teams