PostNL

PostNL

Rethinking internal employment planning


Client
PostNL
Role
Principal Designer
Industry
Parcel Delivery · Planning
Timeline
2020 - 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos
Client PostNL Role Principal Designer Industry Parcel Delivery · Planning Timeline 2020 - 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

PostNL is the leading mail and parcel delivery company in the Benelux. With 33.300 employees they deliver around 8 million postal items to 8 million different households per day. We worked on the early stage development of a new internal employment planning app for all business units. Due to the complexity of both the business and the project, a vast amount of ideas, implications, and functionalities were dealt with.
 

Conduct secondary research

(including trend benchmarking and competitor analysis)

Create the core scaffolding and guidelines

(architecture, user flows, navigation models, ux principles, etc.)

Articulate visual language and systems

(screens, diagrams, mood boards, visual components, presentation slides)

Visualize complex conceptual ideas

(customer journeys and service blueprint maps)

Establishing design libraries

(customer journeys and service blueprint maps)

Analysed the current situation

PostNL - Ortec Inzet-Planning-Registratie platform
PostNL - Ortec Inzet-Planning-Registratie platform

Identified different user needs

Insights overview; validated, formulated and clustered
Insights overview; validated, formulated and clustered

Diverged on the product vision

Developed three distinguished concept directions
Developed three distinguished concept directions
With a diverse team of 8 to 25 people, we created a proof-of-concept that helped us validate our assumptions, rather than investing in the development of a scalable, secure, and solid solution. Split into analysis-, concept-, agile- and lean UX phases. For what came to be ‘GRID’, an understanding of the organization, its users, their workflows, and their current pains, served as the foundation to build on.

Presented the product vision

Structural demo’s by Clutch for 100’s of people
Structural demo’s by Clutch for 100’s of people

Design phases for UX process

Transitioning from convergence to feature factory
Transitioning from convergence to feature factory
After sharing our ambition concept (or product vision) with the stakeholders, we adopted an agile approach in order to define the first epics, features, user stories, and tasks regarding primary business units and their belonging target groups. Providing consistent and intuitive workflows, increasing both efficiency and satisfaction for different users; planner, manager, technician, delivery, etc.

Simplified conceptual models

All work contains ‘Employee’, ‘Time’ and ‘Job to be done’
All work contains ‘Employee’, ‘Time’ and ‘Job to be done’

Delivered different UX concepts

Three design solutions for user story one (werkpatroon)
Three design solutions for user story one (werkpatroon)
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Credits

Danielle HoekProduct Owner • Nadine MoschUX Researcher • Maxim Igorovich PaschenkoVisual Designer • Marc van WilligenSenior Consultant • Rolf DullemondConsultant • Marien KrouwelSenior Solution Architect • Michiel ArtsSolution Architect • Mariska Dessaur-TerwelBusiness Analyst.
 

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