Four Country Mobile Operator Study: a competitive benchmark of leading mobile operator sites1
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Four Country Mobile Operator Study:a competitive benchmark of leading mobile operator sites
19th January 2011
Overview
Introductions
Study Background
What do we mean by UX Benchmarking? Why is it important?
Methodology and Technology
Findings and Opportunities
Questions and Comments
UserZoom and UX Alliance Partners at a glance
Introductions
Arthur Moan
Country Manager UK & Ireland
at UserZoom
Martje van der Linde
User Experience Consultant
at User Intelligence
Louiselle Morand
User Experience Consultant
at Telono
Javier Darriba
Managing Director
at Xperience Consulting
Today’s Session Goals
See how users in four countries look for:
the monthly cost to surf the internet daily with an iPad
the fax number/address for a high street shop
To gain insight into the European mobile operator market
Introduction and review of UX Benchmarking methodology
Introduction and review of UserZoom software solution for conducting this type of research
Study Background
What is UX benchmarking and why is it important?
OK……. So how do we define UX benchmarking?
What is UX benchmarking and why is it important?
Definition of Benchmarking: The process of comparing the
business processes and performance metrics including cost, cycle time, productivity, or quality to another that is widely considered to be an industry standard benchmark or best practice.
It provides a snapshot of the performance of your business and helps you understand where you are in relation to a particular standard.
What is UX benchmarking and why is it important?
Definition of UX: It’s about how a person feels about
using a system. It highlights the experiential, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of HCI and product ownership, but it also covers a person’s perceptions of the practical aspects such as utility, ease of use and efficiency of the system.
User experience is subjective in nature, as it is about an individual’s feelings and thoughts about the system. User experience is dynamic, because it changes over time as the circumstances change.
What is UX benchmarking and why is it important?
Some may wonder: is UX benchmarking:
?
Not really…..
Here’s how we’d define UX Benchmarking:
• The process of comparing a website’s performance, specifically in relation to UX metrics, including among others effectiveness, efficiency, overall satisfaction and quality perception (ISO-9241-11 standard), to another that is widely considered to be an industry standard benchmark or best practice.
• UX benchmarking provides a snapshot of the performance of your website and helps you understand where you are in relation to a particular standard.
10 must-dos with UX Benchmarking
1. Define measurable & comparable UX-related KPIs (key performance indicators)
2. Select competitors to benchmark against
3. Define target audience
4. Identify common site activities/tasks (between-subjects design)
5. Conduct research using scenario-based testing
6. Gather both quantitative & qualitative data
7. Use the quantitative data to test for statistically significant differences between means or proportions
8. Use qualitative data to support your findings and understand the why
9. Research at least twice a year to measure design changes and trends in expectations
10.Use the right research solution/tool
What is UX benchmarking and why is it important?
‘You can’t manage what you can’t measure’
Attributed to Peter Drucker, Mgt Guru
The question is:
How are you actually measuring UX and defining your benchmark?
Methodology and Technology
Common UX research challenges
Difficulties obtaining objective, statistically significant,
actionable data
Obtaining idea adoption from stakeholders
Geographic/demographic limitations
Research is costly and time-consuming
How does UserZoom add value?
By allowing you to see the BIG picture
Testing large samples of geographically spread participants
Combining statistically-significant usability + user behaviour data
Measuring Customer Experience cost-effectively
Getting actionable insights
Usability Lab Studies
Web Traffic Analysis
Online UX
Studies
Online SurveysFocus
Groups
Qualitative
Quantitative
Online Usability Testing Solution
UZ Self-Serve Edition
100% on-demand, web-based software solution
To manage & conduct various types of online UX research projects
• Hundreds of users participate in a study
• In their natural context
• From geographically spread locations
• Users try to complete tasks (or goals) + answer questions
• No human moderation needed
• Our browser bar connects users with our secure servers
Our method
Analyze data real-time using UZ Analytics
Effectiveness + efficiency ratios
Analyze data using UZ Analytics
Qualitative feedback collected. Easy visualization through ‘text clouds’
Analyze data using UZ Analytics
UserZoom Results - Behavioural
Study structure
Introduction:
For each study, participants were randomly assigned two tasks on two popular mobile operator websites (four tasks in total)
Task: Find a monthly iPad data plan
Task: Locate a store address/fax number
Post-task:
Mobile operator site evaluation ratings included -
Ease of use
Perceived complexity of sites
Perceived consistency of sites
Clear where to start
Confidence in using the sites
Usability Satisfaction (SUS score)
What was liked most about the sites
What was liked least about the sites
Wrap-up:
Mobile Operator Site Preference
Likelihood to recommend: (Net Promoter Score)
Switzerland Study – Participant Demographics
Participants:N= 78 participants
Demographic data collected:• Gender• Current mobile operator• Age
• Individuals between 18-55 years of age were invited to complete the study.
GENDER45 females completed the study33 males completed the study
Switzerland Study – Participant Demographics
AGEThe highest percentage of Swiss participants are 36 - 45 years of age.
• 14 participants are 18-25• 19 participants are 26-35• 25 participants are 36-45• 20 participants are 46-55
MOBILE OPERATORSwisscom, Sunrise and Orange were the most common current providers among participants.
• “Other”: yallo, vtx, Vodafone
Netherlands Study – Participant Demographics
Participants:N= 100 participants
Demographic data collected:• Gender• Current mobile operator• Age
• Individuals between 18-55 years of age were invited to complete the study.
GENDER47 females completed the study53 males completed the study
Netherlands Study – Participant Demographics
MOBILE OPERATORVodafone, KPN and T-Mobile were the most common current providers among participants.
•“Other”: hi, simyo, lebara, ziggo, rabo mobiel
AGEThe highest percentage of Dutch participants are 36 - 45 years of age.
• 21 participants are 18-25• 15 participants are 26-35• 41 participants are 36-45• 23 participants are 46-55
Spain Study – Participant Demographics
Participants:N= 100 participants
Demographic data collected:• Gender• Current mobile operator• Age
• Individuals between 18-55 years of age were invited to complete the study.
GENDER45 females completed the study55 males completed the study
Spain Study – Participant Demographics
AGEThe highest percentage of Spanish participants are 26-35 years of age.
• 27 participants are 18-25• 43 participants are 26-35• 22 participants are 36-45• 08 participants are 46-55
MOBILE OPERATORMovistar, Vodafone and Orange were the most common current providers among participants.
United Kingdom Study – Participant Demographics
Participants:N= 101 participants
Demographic data collected:• Gender• Current mobile operator• Age
• Individuals between 18-55 years of age were invited to complete the study.
GENDER65 females completed the study35 males completed the study
United Kingdom Study – Participant Demographics
AGEThe highest percentage of UK participants are 36 - 45 years of age.
• 21 participants are 18-25• 30 participants are 26-35• 31 participants are 36-45• 18 participants are 46-55
MOBILE OPERATORVodafone, O2 and Orange were the most common current providers among participants.
• “Other”: Asda, Tesco, Virgin
Executive Summary
Executive Summary
Orange UK and Orange Switzerland (CH) had highest task success rates for both iPad (UK 75%) and Address (CH 87%) tasks.
Orange Spain (SP) had the lowest success rate across tasks 24%, the lowest participants satisfaction scores, and substantially lower preference (25%) vs. Vodafone (75%).
All mobile providers tested in each country received low usability satisfaction scores by participants.
The lowest system usability scale scores (SUS) were received by Vodafone Spain (51) and Orange Spain (40).
All four mobile providers received low Net Promoter Scores (between -46% and -75%). There were more detractors than promoters in every instance.
Findings and Opportunities
Top level overview of Task 1 across all countries with deep dive into Switzerland & UK results
“Find the monthly cost to surf the internet daily with an iPad”
Task Metrics: iPad Monthly Plan
Switzerland: Swisscom Successful process
“Internet” “Internet with your
Notebook” “iPad tariffs”
Can be found in 3 clicks if browsing
Heatmaps First Click: Swisscom - Switzerland (DE)
Overall 30% were successful- 6% used the search bar- 40% rolled over to the side navigation bar and then clicked on the links on the right - 15% clicked “Kombi-Angebote” on the side navigation bar
Task: iPad Monthly PlanTask: iPad Monthly Plan
Heatmaps First Click: Orange – Switzerland (DE)
Overall 24% were successful- 14% used the search bar- 16% clicked “Mobile” on the top navigation bar- 14% clicked “Internet” on the top navigation bar
Task: iPad Monthly PlanTask: iPad Monthly Plan
Heatmaps First Click: Orange - Spain
Overall 28% were successful- 21% used the search bar- 14% clicked “movil” on the top navigation bar- 65% clicked in other places
Task: iPad Monthly PlanTask: iPad Monthly Plan
Heatmaps First Click: Vodafone - Spain
Overall 61% were successful- 7% used the search bar- 31% clicked “Tienda Online” on the top navigation bar- 14% clicked in the center promotional area
Task: iPad Monthly PlanTask: iPad Monthly Plan
Heatmaps First Click: Vodafone - Netherlands
Overall 27% were successful- 4% used the search bar- 14% clicked “Internet” on the top navigation bar- 19% clicked in the center promotional area
Task: iPad Monthly PlanTask: iPad Monthly Plan
Heatmaps First Click: T-Mobile - Netherlands
Overall 40% were successful- 15% used the search bar- 13% clicked “Abonnement” on the top navigation bar- 27% clicked “Internet” on the top navigation bar
Task: iPad Monthly PlanTask: iPad Monthly Plan
Heatmaps First Click: Orange - United Kingdom
Overall 75% were successful- 13% used the search bar- 37% clicked “iPad” on the left navigation bar- 50% clicked in other places
Task: iPad Monthly PlanTask: iPad Monthly Plan
• Only half of the participants were able to successfully find the monthly cost of an iPad subscription on the Vodafone website.
• Successful Participants spent an average of 5 minutes 24 seconds and 19 clicks completing the task.
Vodafone > iPad: UK
Task Effectiveness
Orange > iPad: UK
Task Effectiveness
• The majority of participants were able to find the correct price for the plan (75%).
• Successful Participants spent an average of 1 minute 11 seconds and 7 clicks completing the task.
Top level overview of Task 2 across all countries with deep dive into The Netherlands & Spain’s results
“Locate a store address/fax number”
Task Metrics: Locating Store Address/Phone number
Success rates for Netherlands
Task 2 : « Find the closest shop to the Amsterdam railway station and write down its address. »
The T-mobile site provided the best results regarding this task, 77% of the participants was successful.
On average it took slightly over one minute to find the right information, with an average of only 4 page views and 8 clicks.
On the Vodafone website 52% was successful in achieving this information.
Remarkable result is that it took an average of 3 minutes and 29 clicks to complete this task.
Success questionnaire - Netherlands
Nevertheless, the rate of success regarding a task is not necessarily an indication of the ease of use:
The Vodafone website was less successful, but only 28% of the participants regarded it to be difficult to acquire the needed information.
On the T-mobile website, people were far more successful, but also less satisfied with the level of difficulty to get to the right URL: 42% of the participants thought this was (very) hard to achieve.
Vodafone
T-mobile
Abandon questionnaire - Netherlands
Main reasons for abandoning a task were:
Page not loading: Especially the Vodafone website was unable to load the required page. Remarkable is that people wait up to 5 minutes!
Information not in expected location: Both Vodafone and T-mobile present information in an unexpected manner. Participants have certain expectations on where and how to find the required information. In case these expectations are not met, people easily abandon the website.
QUOTES“I was looking for it under Customer service and expected to be able to fill in my location and that it would automatically give the closest store location.”“ I was unable to open the page.”
Final questionnaire - Netherlands
Users of both the Vodafone as well as the T-mobile website are neither positive nor negative about the websites:
They regard it as easy to use for inexperienced users and there is no need for extra help.
Nevertheless, the lack of success will have some influence on the use of the website.
Most users indicate that they will not likely be using these websites in the near future again.
Task 2 Spain : Find the closest shop to the Atocha railway station and take note of its
fax number.
Task 2 Spain – success ratios
• On Vodafone 68% of users completed the task successfully .
• On Orange 53% of users completed the task successfully.
Vodafone analysis - Spain
• First click of users was mostly focused on the search engine and the help section. There were several users that tried to find the shops using the Vodafone logo.
Vodafone analysis - Spain
• The reason users got the answer incorrect was due to a problem on the web. Although as happened in the previous task, the information that users found was not clear enough.
The site is not clear nor intuitive, you have to use the search engine, the information provided is not precise
The section with the Vodafone shops is easy, the problem is one you have to find one in Madrid
Too much information on the map
Vodafone analysis - Spain
• The reasons participants abandoned the task was mainly due to the information being incomplete (67%). Other reasons were:• The information
presentation is not clear enough
• The information, options and menus are difficult to understand
• The information wasn’t in the expected location
• Few search options• As it has been seen in the
previous task users again had problems with the information provided.
I have entered province “Madrid”, city “Madrid” and no results appeared with this search options. I have tried with different options and it always happened the same.
Orange Analysis - Spain
• Most of the users went to the tab “Orange shop” in order to look for the addresses of the physical shops.
• The reason for the incorrect answer was ‘not being able to find the correct information due to options and menus being difficult to understand.’
• Users explained that the site mainly focuses on the iPhone whereas iPad information is quite difficult to find.
• The system could be improved using an accessible and easy to find search engine.
There is no way to understand what is going on here.
There is no way to find anything. What a fuss!
Orange Analysis - Spain
• Those users who didn’t finish the task was mainly because they couldn’t find the information where they were expecting to find it.
• The links to the information were not clear enough.
• The site is very focused on selling products or services instead of giving clients the service that they need. I don’t have anything
against Orange but its website is a disaster
Orange Analysis - Spain
Final Questionnaire – all countries: Which mobile operator do you prefer?
Netherlands Switzerland
Spain UK
1. I think that I would like to use this system frequently. 2. I found the system unnecessarily complex. 3. I thought the system was easy to use. 4. I think that I would need the support of a technical person to be able to use this system. 5. I found the various functions in this system were well integrated. 6. I thought there was too much inconsistency in this system. 7. I would imagine that most people would learn to use this system very quickly. 8. I found the system very cumbersome to use. 9. I felt very confident using the system. 10. I needed to learn a lot of things before I could get going with this system.
Metrics: SUS ScoreThe System Usability Scale (SUS) is a set of 10 questions that is used to measure the perception of a systems overall usability. Participants rate each question with a 1 to 5 scale (5 being strongly agree).
Metrics: SUS ScoreAfter completing the tasks on each mobile provider website participants were asked to complete the SUS questionnaire. The averages for each question are used to calculate an overall score (0-100).
SUS Score Guide*: 35=poor, 50=OK, 70=good, 85=excellent
Bangor, A. (2009, May). Determining What Individual SUS Scores Mean: Adding and Adjective Rating Scale. Journal of Usability Studies, 4(3), 114-123.
Net Promoter Score (NPS®)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NPS
Orange (SP)16%
11% 15% 10% 7% 14% 9% 9% 2% 4% 3% -75%
Orange (UK) (n=101)
10%
3% 4% 7% 7% 21% 11% 10% 14% 9% 4% -50%
Orange (CH) (n=78) 9% 4% 12% 4% 10% 23% 9% 15% 12% 0% 3% -68%
Swisscom (CH) (n=78)
4% 1% 15% 6% 5% 15% 12% 22% 12% 3% 5%-51%
T-Mobile (NL)13%
4% 6% 4% 6% 27% 13% 10% 13% 3% 1% -69%
Vodafone (NL) 8% 3% 9% 8% 5% 22% 18% 11% 9% 3% 4% -66%
Vodafone (SP) 7% 1% 4% 6% 14% 13% 13% 18% 12% 8% 4% -46%
Vodafone (UK) 8% 1% 4% 8% 9% 22% 13% 16% 9% 5% 5% -55%
Promoters
NPS% of Promoters
(9s and 10s)Detractors
(0 through 6)= -
After completing the four tasks, participants were asked how likely they would be to recommend each mobile provider’s website.
Detractors
Top 5 findings / Learnings The satisfaction is directly related with the success of the users in
obtaining the information that they are looking for. In general the websites for mobile operators in all countries are not performing optimal when consumers have a task in mind. The performance rate was dependent on the task, not the website.
Across the board the main difficulties were in participants finding specific information. The normal way users tried to find the information was through the menu structure. When they realized it was too complicated they tried to use ‘search’ although the results weren’t always clear enough. A much clearer architecture and clearer results in search engines are therefore needed. Furthermore the use of promotional ads made the navigation much longer and difficult for most of the users.
Top 5 findings / Learnings
Analysing NPS, SUS, success on task and preference data it is clear that the brand halo effect has a bearing on site preference in each market irrespective of task success.
UK - although participants had notably higher task success rates on the Orange site (75% and 71%) vs. the Vodafone site (50% and 49%), when asked for site preference at the end of the study, the Orange website was selected only 8% more than the Vodafone site (54% vs 46%) respectively. Out of the Orange customers (n=17) more than half (9) preferred the Vodafone website.
Orange is not strong in Spain
Swisscom the national provider is stronger in Switzerland
Vodafone marginally outperforms T-mobile in the Netherlands
Top 5 findings / Learnings When participants were asked whether they would recommend the
sites in each market all operators scored negatively showing room for improvement. Although these scores are low, previous research has shown that telecommunication companies have the lowest net promoter scores within the technology sector.
As Vodafone and Orange were both tested in 3 of the 4 markets we can benchmark their experiences.
Vodafone outperforms Orange on aggregated SUS (53 versus 51.3)
Vodafone outperforms Orange on aggregated NPS (-55% versus -64.3%)
Task 1 success aggregated : Vodafone outperforms Orange (46% versus 42%)
Task 2 success aggregated : Orange outperforms Vodafone (70% versus 56%)
Q & A
Information on UI
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Our team consists of 17 consultants with a passion for
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About Telono
Telono is a Swiss consultancy specialising in usability, user experience and web accessibility.
We help companies implement a systematic user-centred design process, from user experience strategy and user research to interaction design and usability evaluations.
Telono is the Swiss representative of the User Experience Alliance (UXalliance)
About Xperience Consulting
• 10 years of experience
• 2 offices (Barcelona & Madrid)
• 150 AI projects
• 300 usability studies
• 6000 users analyzed
• 150 clients (15 countries)
Usability and user experience experts, we
create interfaces that suit users’ needs and
objectives of your company. Intuitive and easy
to use websites.
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UX Alliance - Who are we?
The UX Alliance is an international network for usability testing and user
experience research consisting of core partners, associates, and affiliate
members.
Back in 2005 the leading user experience companies from France, Germany,
Spain, UK and US met in Barcelona with a single common goal in mind: how to
provide effective international user experience services to our clients.
Having worked together on international
projects for many years, we recognised
that we were ideally placed to lead
international user experience research.
Thus, the UXalliance was born…
www.uxalliance.
Who are we?
20 Countries – 22 Companies Over 100 global projects per year together.
User Centric, Inc.United States
SirValUseGermany
User ExperienceChina
Xperience ConsultingSpain
User IntelligenceNetherlands/
Finland
UXa Partners, Associates, & Affiliates
Optimal UsabilityNew Zealand
Mitsue LinksJapan
Think UserKorea
AxanceFrance
UIDesign GroupRussia
Optimal ExperienceAustralia
Mercedes SanchezBrazil
SymetriaPoland
Snitker & Co.Denmark
ExperienceLabUnited Kingdom
Yu CentrikCanada
Ayer ViernesChile
TelonoSwitzerland
ExperienceUCzech Republic
About UserZoom
Leading online (remote) user experience research software company
9 years experience in UX research & consulting
Offices in Sunnyvale (CA), London (UK) and Barcelona (Spain)
Created because traditional UX research methods are great but not enough
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