Introduction

Kemai technology launches a vertical socializing application targeting at people in marketing function, who want to manage their own client resources rather than under the monitoring of the organization. The key features include: mobility, IM, notes, calendar, client map, birthday reminder and communication reminder. Within the anonymous socializing platform, ‘kemai circle’, people could exchange client information to improve sales performance.

My primary job includes improving usability of the current app, designing and prototyping for new features. On top of my daily job, I carried out an independent user research focusing on social needs of sales people, to support design decisions on the app's social feature.


Research Process

Competitive Analysis

Motivate first-time use: introduce in big names and up-to-date topics

Guidance: examples or tutorials

Keep users active: focus on creating more connections for users



Observation & Interview

Through the help of the marketing team, I had the chance to get in touch with a large user group. Participants were from a variety of industries and different positions, but all positions have needs for customer relationship management, which made them our target users. Below is an overview of the constitution of participants:

Industry: finance, IT, software service, manufacturing

Position: marketing , business development, sales, public relationship, operation manager.

During each face-to-face session, my colleagues and I would first ask users to describe what their daily work was like. Through the casual talk, I would be able to understand their tasks and scope of work. Then there were some more specific questions about how many customers they need to manage, and how they obtain information about new customers, and how they interact with other sales people.

After this session, my colleagues and I would observe users going through a series of basic bench-mark tasks, especially how they interacted with fake users in the social circle. Some follow-up questions would be asked to dig deeper into their thoughts of the feature and some special observations.

Persona

Two personas were formed based on interviews and observations.

The primary persona, Frank, works with clients in the area of finance and have to maintain a large group of clients on a daily basis. He is good at utilizing different tools to help him work efficiently; He also is very active in socializing with people who are also salesmen. For him, socializing means an outlet for stress, as well as a important source of information and new skills.



In contrast, Sally is less active in her work as well as in social aspects. She wants everything to keep simple.


Survey

The interviews and A total of 47 participants, at least 1-month experience on the app.



Problem list and action plan
Problem Priority Solution

Difficulties in understanding

Kemai circle is a social network for sales people that enable them to help each other, communicate and share feelings.

6

  1. Brief tutorial on the first time users enter kemai circle;
  2. Using a system avatar to manage the default  contents of kemai circle, educating users how to get started

It is a network based on a intersection of clients

10

Using a system avatar to manage the default  contents of kemai circle, educating users how to get started

What does “serve” mean

9

Change the way of expression

Difficulties in use

Anonymity

7

Add tutorial or prompts

How to start using the kemai circle

9

Let the system avatar post a step-to-step introduction

How to ask questions and tag companies

10

Tutorial page


Wireframes and prototypes

improvements on Kemai circle


Final Interaction flow




Other wireframes

In addition to the efforts spent on Kemai circle, I was also responsible for making wireframes for other new features to communicate design ideas with the development team. Together with the team, we finished 3 major product updates in 2 months.