Pakistan's largest telecom operator

Jazz
Services
User Research, Content audit, UI/UX, Website Design, App Design, Prototyping
Platform
WordPress, Woocomerce
Industry
Telecom
Jazz is the biggest mobile operator in Pakistan, with the largest voice and data network and the most customers. The company traces its history back to 1994 when it became the first GSM operator in Pakistan.

Redesign the experience in 2 months


In 2015, with the digital wave pushing everyone to be more digital savy Mobilink created a Digital department trying to build more modern products and services that had user experience and process efficiencies at its center.

We were part of an ambitious project to redesign Mobilink Website’s digital experience to focused around their customers needs and pain points.

Our goal here was to work with the digital department to re-invision the website to be able to serve its many customers in their needs and to bring a higher level of efficiency and fines in design and process.

The high level goals were to

  • Building a website that is designed for Mobilink’s consumers that helps them find the information they are looking for with ease.
  • To support digital initiative and reduce dependencies on conventional support channels i.e. customer support helpline, customer care centres, Email Support.
  • To create an E-care portal which allowed easy access to frequent information to customers and to easily make changes to their package/subscriptions and other configurations.
  • To add e-commerce capability to the website to allow users to purchase Sims, Packages and Mobile phones.


During the period of my engagement Mobilink rebranded itself to Jazz.

Our Role

We led the design and research effort of the website from December 2015 - February 2016 and worked with other members of the digital department to aid in our effort to going through research, reports, auditing and getting a lot of work done in a short span of time

Venture Republic is one of the truly creative shops out of Pakistan in the internet space a reliable partner for startups to sort their creative out. We were immensely supported by the teams through our early stage design effort. With their creative guidance at Mobilink where they built and reformed the digital creative and experience direction , we found them to be the best professionals around anywhere.

Ehtisham Rao
-Digital Director, Jazz

Problem solving through research

Mobilink a telecom operator, one of the largest operators in Pakistan which was been running since 1994, at the time in 2015 had 36.2 million subscribers.

Old Vs New Mobilink Website Design

Kicking off the work

Starting out the project we did not have clear visibility on user insights and how various Mobilink systems functioned in order to access data from one system to another. Our first week was spent on meeting with various departments in order to understand system limitations and generation function, interviewing existing customers at care centres.

Reviewing existing journeys journeys on when users tried to do something particular like purchase sim, alter package details, etc

A lot of valuable data and insights were uncovered while going through reports and data that they had through Surveys, Support Tickets, Data Analytics, Web Traffic and behavior.

Understanding who were designing for was crucial first step in understanding and segmenting different behaviours across different channels with the focus being on the following:




Persona & Motivation

Insights


  • User relied on friends advice and expertise on decision making to buy the right phone or package. Providing recommendation based on user habits will help user make better decisions.
  • Customers would like simpler tariff plans for consumers and business
  • Customers would like a way to customize their services without calling helpline or visiting help centres
  • Mobitune’s allowed users to set custom ringtones, which was currently only changed through sms code and call centre support. There was good opportunity to lower cost of support through digitising configuration through website.
  • Typical smartphone users don’t visit mobile network provide website, because there is not much to be done or no easy way to digest information.
  • Customers would like an easy way to order new sims
  • Users want fast paced internet access on their phone.
  • Below the fold area of Mobilink’s website receives less than 5% of web traffic

User Journey Workshops

A user journey workshop was conducted with across several department stakeholders and their teams which included, marketing, sales, customer support, BI and operations to help craft aspirational journeys of what the experience should be for customers while comparing that to the existing experience.

  1. Purchasing a Prepaid Connection journey

User Flow on the website

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Positive results and more

There significant improvements on the web and mobile experience, some of which are as follows

  • Active users on Ecare portal increase to 279%
  • Bounce rate on website decreased to 42%
  • Average time on consumer website went up 82%

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