Lakehouse

Experience Strategy

We research, map, and design the experiences that connect your brand to your audience.

What It Is

We help organizations understand and improve the experiences they deliver to their customers, employees, and partners. That means research, journey mapping, service design, information architecture, and the strategic thinking that turns insights into a plan.

Experience strategy sits upstream of design and development. It is the work that ensures you are building the right thing before you start building it. Too many projects jump straight to wireframes or code without a clear picture of who the experience is for, what problems it needs to solve, and how success will be measured.

We bring structure to that ambiguity. We use research to replace assumptions with evidence, and we use frameworks to turn evidence into actionable strategy that the whole team can rally around.

Our Approach

We start with research. That might mean interviewing customers, observing how people use your current products, analyzing support tickets and behavioral data, or running surveys to quantify what we are hearing qualitatively. The method depends on the question we are trying to answer.

From the research, we build models that make the findings tangible and shareable. Journey maps show the end-to-end experience with all its pain points and opportunities. Personas ground the team in who they are designing for. Service blueprints reveal the behind-the-scenes processes that shape the front-stage experience.

Then we move into strategy -- defining the target experience, prioritizing the gaps between where you are and where you need to be, and creating a roadmap that connects experience improvements to business outcomes. Every recommendation ties back to something we learned in research.

Who It's For

This service is for organizations that know their experience needs to be better but are not sure where to focus. Maybe customer satisfaction scores are declining. Maybe a new product launch is coming and you want to get the experience right from the start. Maybe you are entering a new market and need to understand what your audience expects.

We work well with product teams, marketing teams, and leadership groups that are ready to invest in understanding their users before making big bets. The organizations that get the most value from experience strategy are the ones that are willing to let research challenge their assumptions.

We are also a strong fit for organizations with complex, multi-channel experiences -- where the customer journey spans web, mobile, physical spaces, and human interactions. Mapping that complexity and finding the leverage points is exactly what we do.

Outcomes

The outcome of experience strategy work is a clear, research-backed plan for improving the experiences that matter most to your business. You get a shared understanding of your users, a map of the current experience with its strengths and weaknesses, and a prioritized set of initiatives to close the gaps.

More practically, you get artifacts your team can use -- journey maps, personas, experience principles, and strategic roadmaps that inform design, development, and business decisions for months or years to come.

The biggest outcome is confidence. Instead of guessing what your customers need, you know. Instead of debating priorities based on opinions, you have evidence. That clarity accelerates everything that comes after -- design moves faster, development builds the right features, and the organization aligns around a shared vision for the experience.

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Case Studies

McDonald's In-Store Digital Experience
McDonald's · While at Huge

Reimagining the in-restaurant experience with interactive kiosks, digital menu boards, and a unified ordering platform.

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Huge Café: Inventing the Future of Retail
Huge (Internal Venture) · While at Huge

Huge opened its own café in Atlanta to prototype the future of retail -- from social vending to anonymous loyalty powered by computer vision.

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Lowe's Red Vest Now: Scaling Expertise Beyond the Store
Lowe's · While at Huge

A knowledge platform that connected Lowe's customers with remote experts, putting human expertise at the center of a technology-first retail strategy.

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Reimagining PGA.com
PGA of America · While at Huge

A ground-up redesign of PGA.com that connected golfers with coaches through personalization, data, and a content platform built to grow the game.

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Lowe's E-Commerce: Relationship Commerce
Lowe's · While at Huge

Redesigning Lowe's digital commerce experience around relationship-driven personalization to close a significant conversion gap.

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Global Bank: Aligning Physical and Digital Experiences
Global Financial Institution · While at Capgemini

Merging physical and digital banking to deliver cohesive, personalized experiences for high-value clients across multiple countries and channels.

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American Bank: Home Loan Digital Experience
Leading American Bank · While at Capgemini

Revamping a leading bank's home loan website with personalized omnichannel experiences, replacing legacy systems with a unified content platform.

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Global Automaker: Digital Transformation at Scale
Global Automotive Manufacturer · While at Capgemini

Transforming a legacy automotive brand's digital platform to deliver omnichannel customer experiences across 52 countries and 3,000 dealerships.

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