BT MeetMe with Dolby Voice

Visual design for web & mobile apps, email

My role at launch
  • Visual designer
My ongoing role
  • Wireframes & prototyping
  • Visual designer
  • User experience designer
  • Research support – documenting user verbatim
Personas
  • New chairperson
  • Existing BT MeetMe chairperson
  • New participant
User journeys
  • By computer
  • By smart phone
  • By phone
Visual design

What is it

BT MeetMe with Dolby Voice is a audio conferencing service that provides high-definition audio with sound separation. Or more simply, with this product, you’d experience the same sound quality as if you were in the same room as someone. This makes those conference calls you don’t really want to join a pleasure to listen to and because of that, you’re more likely to pay attention, participate, and have a more productive interaction with your colleagues because you don’t have to ask someone to repeat that.

This video shows 2 ways to join a conference. It was created for an internal contest. I created the storyboard, script, and prototype, and did the voice over and hand modelling. I got help on the video shooting and editing. (And no, that is not me in the heels at the airport.)

My contribution for launch: interface development

I was brought into the project after an outside agency completed the initial user research, wireframes, web and mobile app designs. I was tasked with:

  • coding and styling the CSS for the web app adhering to BT’s brand guidelines (shared with my manager at the time)
  • providing the graphic assets for the web app
  • logging bugs & providing documentation for the developers to change the existing user experience to the agency’s recommended user experience
  • providing the assets for the mobile apps
  • writing the UI style guide for the mobile app
  • implemented the new account email.

What changed

Since the initial launch, the inhouse team has done all the user experience and interface work. BT developed greater networking capabilities and the apps added new functionality.

What this means for users

With the better networking capacity and reliability, the apps no longer needed to constantly provide network status. Users also requested:

  • easier ways to join
  • see who is in the call without having to take extra actions
  • only see network status if its crappy
  • easier ways to rejoin if dropped from a call

Internally, we were under pressure to deliver while the spending as little as possible on enhancements. But we needed to address the users' need to join quickly and easily since we suspected that the majority of users were joining the same calls.

User testing

Examples

What’s better