{"id":64,"date":"2010-08-28T19:03:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T19:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/28\/evite\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T19:03:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T19:03:36","slug":"evite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/28\/evite\/","title":{"rendered":"Evite.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Increasing Invitation Creation and Response Rates<\/h3>\n<p>Evite&#8217;s core business was to use the web as a vehicle for the organization, communication and management of events; e.g. house parties, bachelorette weekends, movie nights, etc. While event planning is a crucial part of this process, its success relied on the approachability, usability and design of the invitation web page itself.<\/p>\n<p>Through focus groups and user testing of the invitation web page, the team learned there were two crucial pieces to ensure a successful event creation and response rate. The first was the event host&#8217;s ability to customize invitations to reflect their individual style. The second was the transparency of event details for invitees. Therefore, the team&#8217;s approach was to establish a design structure modular enough to allow for visual customizations, streamlined site performance and reorganize the invite structure to prioritize the guest&#8217;s RSVP needs.<\/p>\n<h4><em>Overall User Experience Design Process<br \/><\/em><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Reviews with stakeholders and site users. <\/strong>Product team collaboratively  reviewed relevant user requirements and identified appropriate design  prioritization.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internal, multi-team work sessions.<\/strong> Facilitated creative sessions to explore redesign options.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wireframes. <\/strong>Product team collaboratively participated in concept brainstorm sessions and revisions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visual  Design Comps. <\/strong>Led visual design discussions, visual direction, client  presentations and design-to-development presentation build.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paper and  Online Prototypes. <\/strong>Designed visuals used as the basis for paper and  online prototypes. Worked with product team and user testing consultant  to organize, plan and run focus groups and user testing sessions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Outcomes<\/h3>\n<p>The redesign resulted in an increase of overall event creations, invitee response and high-levels of testimonials describing event successes.<\/p>\n<h4><em><strong>Implemented Solutions<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased user controlled visuals to include font and section header colors, links,page background image and\/or color and ability to upload one user generated image<\/li>\n<li>Restructured event information to include clearly defined headers identifying event information; i.e. event title, details, guest list and response area<\/li>\n<li>Streamlined design elements by eliminating use of structural graphics; i.e. rounded corners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing Invitation Creation and Response Rates Evite&#8217;s core business was to use the web as a vehicle for the organization, communication and management of events; e.g. house parties, bachelorette weekends, movie nights, etc. While event planning is a crucial part of this process, its success relied on the approachability, usability and design of the invitation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/28\/evite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evite.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c35-evite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heyleslie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}