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STRATEGY & DESIGN / EXPERIENCE DESIGN

Experiences That Feel Like One Company

Zaelab designs the storefront, portal, and service experience as one, so a customer feels the same brand no matter which channel they're in.

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WHEN IT'S USED

When the Experience Feels Disconnected

A customer who feels a different brand on the storefront, the portal, and the service desk notices the seams even when the backend is sound.

Every gap in that experience costs trust and repeat business.

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WHAT'S INVOLVED

What Experience Design Covers

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Design Built on the Journey

Interface and interaction design grounded in the journey map and personas coming out of Strategy & Journey Mapping, not designed in isolation from them.

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Interfaces Built to Convert

Navigation, search, and checkout that reduce the steps to purchase.

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One Experience Across Channels

The storefront, the portal, and the service desk behave the same way.

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Content That Supports the Purchase

Product data, documentation, and specifications attached to the products they describe.

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Design Systems That Hold

Components and patterns built once and reused across every channel, so consistency doesn't depend on manual review.

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THE OUTPUT

What We Deliver

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A design system covering the storefront, portal, and service channels

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Interface designs for the priority flows, tested against conversion goals

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A content model tying product data to the experiences that use it

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An omnichannel style guide for teams building on the system after launch

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PART OF THE WHOLE

Where This Fits in the Work

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Experience Design follows Strategy & Journey Mapping, taking the journey map and personas and turning them into the interface. It feeds directly into Implementation & Integration, where the design gets built.

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OUR APPROACH

Built and Delivered by Practitioners

Zaelab has designed customer and service experiences across the whole revenue journey, on every platform your business runs on. The team designing the experience is the same team that has to make it work in production.

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IN PRACTICE

Results You Can See

Read Success Stories

60%

Of Sales now flow through digital channels

Winner

Enterprise B2B eCommerce Manufacturer of the Year

“The Zaelab team has been fantastic through the entire project, and we couldn’t be more appreciative. The tireless work and effort everyone is putting in is paying off. ”

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