

Desktop app

2020-2021
The Dealer is an internal targeting engine, enabling product and marketing managers to improve engagement by personalizing the end-user’s journey.
Wix Funnel | UX, UI
The problem

Wix constantly develops new products and features to improve engagement with users and overall usability. With so many options to choose from users may lose their way in the clutter - as different features are designed for different use cases.


How then can the right features be targeted and offered to the right users?

The Dealer is an internal Wix platform used by the company’s product and marketing managers to create a personalized engagement funnel for each end-user. The platform offers its users advanced segmentation and tracking features, ensuring that Wix end-users are exposed to the features which answer best to their particular needs.
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And this is how Wix end-users experience the Dealer’s “offerings” - targeted features to answer their needs

For example:
Wix Business Manager
A view on Wix’s signature back office interface

Dealer based placements
Personalized content, segmented by the Dealer
Old Dealer back office
The old Dealer was created to answer an immediate need that changed overtime while expanding the platform’s userbase. The development process was rather “on-the-go” and didn’t take into account a full user experience that could appeal to a wider set of users and needs.


To improve the platform’s overall functionality and usability, making it more accessible to users.

Research Methodology
I decided to research the market in order to understand how others are trying to solve the problem I have identified. Among the products I reviewed were in-house festival apps and apps for large conventions, and even amusement parks that face similar challenges

Talked to over 20 direct users
Ops, PMs and PMMs
Talked to ~20 Wix users
researched which messages they see
Studied current communication
what placements we have, which offers, how they are targeted
Looked into competition & inspiration
Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Dynamic Yield, Intercom...
User research

The Dealer has three primary user types:

Operations
Product Managers
Product Marketing Managers
Although PMMs constitute the largest out of the Dealer’s userbases, and although the platform was initially created to meet their needs, they are hardly engaging with it. This rather defeats the purpose of the platform in the first place.
For these reasons, we decided to focus most of our research efforts on this particular group.
PMMs can be further divided into three subgroups, covering different areas of responsibilities
Audience Managers
Manage & prioritize all messages within a specific placement
Product Marketers
Promote new features and products
Placement Managers
Manage all messages that target a specific audience
Conclusions from the interviews
Basic information is inaccessible.
Lack of an integrated product overview - the “Big Picture” is missing
Users are too dependant on inputs from other professionals - analysts, operations, designers, etc.
Placement options, features and appropriate use-cases are not well understood.
The product is overall perceived by users as unapproachable - from an incoherent user flow to overly technical copy.
The solution
A new Dealer system that will allow the users to view and take actions from three different “perspectives” based on their need and intent. Offerings are associated with each of one of these three attributes that define them.

Placements
prioritization across products and audiences
Audiences
communication optimization across the user journey
Campaigns
products’ promotion and team goals

The product

UX Guidelines
Our conclusions from the user research served as the conceptual scaffold for the UX guidelines that directed the new design
Easy and clear navigation
Quick access to frequently used items: actions, filters, information, etc.
Guidance & alerts
User friendly language & clear copy
Consistency in: information, views, actions
Mapping of Main Components
Offerings can be created and accessed following three different “perspectives” - three conceptual entities that characterize the offering itself: Placements, Campaigns, and Audiences. These “perspectives” allow the user to view and manage the communication with Wix end-users from both a broader, more operational, viewpoint and from the practical viewpoint of managing an actual offering.

Navigation Alternatives
The first challenges we addressed were the system’s main navigation setup and the layout of important information.




Selected Layout
Dealer Views
Placements
Main view of all placements sorted by their location

Hover on the information revels the placements' availability

Click on the placements' card takes the user to the placement page

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement

Click on "View Guide" opens a side panel with all the information the users need in order to create an offering in this placement
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