Deluxe

Corporate structures can be tricky to navigate, and Deluxe was no different. Their organizational structure created silos around content and services. Our challenge was to find ways to break down those silos and create a cohesive experience that served multiple department's business goals.

At first, our team was outmatched. The lack of alignment within Deluxe left our team spinning on how to make progress. To keep us on track, I partnered with our in-house change strategist, someone who is experienced driving change in complex corporate environments, to coach the team on how to turn their political dysfunction into a design challenge.

We planned and executed multiple multi-day workshops where we grounded a diverse group of leaders from Deluxe in the user needs and business goals of their organization, and then lead design thinking activities to co-create the sitemap, page layouts, and content strategy. This resulted in immediate buy-in from their executive teams during presentations, and armed the Deluxe team with a new perspective on how they could work together internally.

"One Deluxe" was the code-name for the relaunch of this legacy brand. Before our work, users were left to navigate a complex web of sub-brands and hidden services. Once we were complete, users could learn about and navigate to all of the different services that Deluxe had to offer (including their money-making check and payroll services). The Deluxe team also left with a solid foundation to continue to grow their new brand and singular-product vision.