vacasa
POST-BOOKING EMAIL JOURNEY

ROLES: designer

TIMELINE: january 2022 - may 2022

PROJECT TYPES: UI/UX, research

COLLABORATORS: copy, product, guest marketing, guest experience


The phones were ringing off the hook

Our Guest Experience team was overwhelmed with the number of calls concerning guest reservations after they had booked. The guest email journey was messy, disjointed, and lacked hierarchy.

I partnered with our guest marketing email team to overhaul the look and experience of our post-booking email flow.

 

APPROACH

We looked at all potential guest communications and identified gaps and redundancies that could be eliminated, as well as copy and information needs. After the team conducted further research about the kinds of missing information guests were calling about (primarily if a reservation was confirmed), I determined and built out the information hierarchy.

The resulting emails grouped the most important unit information at a glance, as well as any type of uncompleted steps a guest may need to take before their stay begins. On mobile, this was designed to all fall within a screen shot, no scrolling required. Additionally, I designed banners that can be added to the top of an email alerting a guess of actions they needed to take, or information they could access through our Trip Manager.

 

Desktop

Mobile

 

All Vacasa units are different and thus require different informational needs.

Does the unit have a pool? Is it ski-in ski-out?
Is it part of a larger complex and needs more precise entry instructions?
Is it in an isolated area?

Due to this variability, I built out a series of modules that could be dynamically pulled in based on unit-tagging on our site. This kept only relevant information present and visible for guests.

The improved flow

 

Taking a top 5 problem for the GX team and knocking it out of the top 20

After launching our updated post-booking flow, our Guest Experience team reported 80% less booking-related calls.