We help great companies thrive in an evolving, digital world. We believe that in the face of evolution great people grow, great leaders lead and great companies thrive. Rogers Communications is one of the great companies that is growing stronger every day in the face of evolution.
Rogers is an iconic Canadian brand. Founded in 1960 by Ted Rogers, it is the largest telecom company and one of the largest media companies in Canada. As with many established businesses, it is being challenged by changing customer expectations, driven by the new capabilities and business models brought to life by the rapid evolution of digital.
In line with its history of innovation, Rogers has launched its own digital evolution, committing time, effort and resources toward a customer-centric transformation. They have invested in a series of transformation programs, ranging from improved digital customer journeys to the optimization of internal processes. In 2018, 17seconds had the good fortune of partnering with Rogers on several of these initiatives.
Advance Roger’s digital capabilities and experience by redesigning the tools, techniques and customer touchpoints to help them thrive in the face of evolution. To meet these objectives, we partnered with Rogers’ design, product and development teams on an 8-month engagement to:
By the end of the engagement, not only did Rogers and Fido have more effective, user-friendly web properties, they also had a world-class enterprise Design System, Service Design Principles to guide all product and service development and a Customer Journey methodology to ensure customers are the focus of everything they do.
We began the engagement by interviewing approximately a dozen key stakeholders, diving into existing user research and analytics data, and performing a comprehensive competitive review. This provided us with a good baseline for the current state and prepared us for a highly productive kickoff with the full team.
We then led a two-day Design Thinking workshop with thirty-seven cross-functional team members from business, product, design, technology, and marketing. Through the workshop the team:
The research, interviews, and workshop provided us with the background and insights needed to develop a comprehensive design strategy.
Over the next several months, we worked hand-in-hand with the Rogers.com and Fido.ca in-house design teams, as well as members of their development and product teams, to redesign every core element of those sites.
In addition to the standard practices of producing user flow diagrams, wireframes, visual designs, motion studies, and prototypes, we also worked together with those teams to implement best-in-class tools, processes, and frameworks. This collaboration resulted in much more than two new websites. It helped to transform the way their teams saw themselves, worked together, and aligned on how to best serve the customer and meet business objectives.
Finally, we helped Rogers with the strategy and requirements for a state-of-the-art enterprise Design System. We believe that Design Systems are critical for the success of any digital transformation, as it enables collaboration, design consistency and efficiencies that free teams to focus on what matters. The Design System Rogers developed utilizes an atomic design structure, provides company-wide access to the latest design patterns via Sketch and InVision’s DSM and links elements in the UI Kit directly to coded modules.
Prior to this engagement, common elements were being “re”-designed and re-coded by different designers and developers, creating many versions of the same component and wasting countless hours. With the new design system, all designers are using the same set of components in their new designs and developers are using the same set of existing modules. The design and development teams now have a clear process, working together to create new modules as needed and add them to the design system, ensuring that everyone has access to all of the latest and greatest elements regardless of where in the organization they were created.
Rogers is a truly great company that is evolving quickly into a digital-first leader in their industry. 17seconds is proud to have partnered with them on such an important part of their journey.
