Are You (User) Experienced?
ADWEEK|July 23, 2018

User experience design is everything, and most brands suck at it. Here’s why it’s so hard.

Dan Tynan
Are You (User) Experienced?

At Nike’s new concept store in West Los Angeles, the digital and the physical converge. .

Nike by Melrose’s 4,557 square feet of retail space is designed to create an experience that blends mobile app convenience with high touch human connections.

As shoppers enter the store, they receive personalized offers via Nike App at Retail. If they see a shoe or shirt they like, they can scan a QR code to summon a salesperson (Nike calls them “athletes”) to bring it in a different size or color.

Customers can book a 15- or 30-minute consult with an athlete, get recommendations, then try out their new kicks on a treadmill in the Trial Zone. Or they can skip the store entirely and order gear via Swoosh Text SMS, then have it stored in a secure locker or waiting for them curbside the next time they drive by.

A quarter of the store’s inventory will be refreshed every two weeks, determined by data about the kinds of gear Angeleno Nike hipsters tend to buy.

Nike by Melrose is an experiment, but the $36 billion sportswear giant hopes to extend what it learns to new stores in New York, Shanghai, Tokyo and beyond, says Heidi O’Neill, president of Nike Direct.

“By harnessing the power of digital, we’re able to make customers’ shopping experiences easier and better,” she says. “By leveraging data, we can glean what consumers in a particular neighborhood want. The core purpose is to deliver the best possible Nike consumer experience.”

PUTTING THE YOU IN UX

Companies like Nike have realized that they’re no longer just making and marketing products; they’re really in the business of crafting user experiences.

As Dan Maccarone, CEO and co-founder of product design firm Charming Robot, puts it, “The experience is the brand.”

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