Ryanair support chat

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Redesign of the Ryanair support chat. 

Side project. After having used the Ryanair customer service several times trough the Chat, I detected that a few user experience improvements can be done.

First approach

Positive points

Simple and good design.
Follows Ryanair brand guidelines.
Users can see the name of the advisor who they are talking with.
Users can send images.
Users can edit their contact details.
Users can end the chat whenever they need.

Negative points

Doesn’t show any customer service email or phone number.
Difficult to find the chat feature on the website.
Users can’t give an advisor review, only hands up/ hands down button.
Users can’t save the conversation and in most cases they don’t receive any confirmation email after an issue is solved or a change is made.
Users have to send a message about their query and after select one of default topics they need help about.
End conversation button twice.

Potential solutions / propose

Add phone number and email after the advisor’s name. Allows users to have all the contact details in the same place.
In that way if the advisor can’t help them, the users don’t need to go to find more assistance somewhere else.
Chat button/pop up can show up straight away when user is on the website (as the mail subscription is currently on the landing page).
Change hands up/hands down to starts, to being able rate advisors and write a review.
Option to save the conversation.
Voice option for disability users.
Topic selection first and message after.
Users can be annoyed to explain twice their need.

Current Julia’s journey
  1. Julia wants a refund of 2 flights cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  2. Julia is going to use the chat as it is the quicker way to get an answer.
  3. It takes some time for her to find the chat.
  4. She is asked to write a short message explaining what her issue is. After that she gets an automatic message asking her to select a predeterminate topic she needs help about.
  5. Ewa works on the customer service and is the advisor who will help Julia.
  6. Ewa is able to process Julia’s refunds and Julia will get the money back in 2-3 weeks.
  7. Julia asks for a confirmation email of her refund solicitation.
  8. Ewa explains Julia that Ryanair doesn’t send any confirmation email and that she will get an email when Julia got the refund.
  9. Julia gets a frustrated as she is not having any track of this transaction.
  10. Ewa kindly suggests she can send her a transcription of the conversation for her to have record.
  11. Julia is then really pleased with Ewa’s assistance, she would like to give her an extraordinary good review but there isn’t any option for that.
  12. Julia give up and don’t give her the good feedback. 
Assumptions

Pros 

Solves users needs.
Happy users = more users will trust and use Ryanair.

Cons

All the solutions are based on the user requirements and not on the business.
Lack of full information of the business side to make a decision of business needs.

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