When I found out we got Doctors without borders as our new client I was immediately happy for being able to help a great organisation becoming more digital and streamline how they recruit new donors to great causes.The challenge was to take away the old ‘pen and paper’ way of recruit donors since it swallowed a lot of precious volonteer time with manual work, printing lists, human spelling errors, physical paper that needed to be posted each day and bank numbers that needed to be sent in to be checked back and forth.It took a long time and prevented volunteers to do other great work.
I went to the head office and did interviews with different parts of the organisation to find out where we could improve most in the process. I talked to costumer service, donor service, team managers and had a close communcation with the head of direct dialog.
To better understand the process of recruiting donors I got to shadow two recruiters in the field and document how they used body language, speech and a binder with information and other materials to explain their vision and how donations helps them in their important work.
The app out in the field
We also invited team managers to help make a user journey, ask questions about pros and cons with the current way of working and important things to think about when coming up with a new solutions that we may have missed.After creating a user journey and discussing the best technical solutions with the tech lead and developers, we sketched up wireframes and began building the end product. We found that the best way would be to build a web application to be used on tablets by recruiters.
The user journey would be:
Admin view
Main view for signing new donors
Offline mode modals
Statistic view for recruiters
No more paper that needs to be posted each day. No more spelling errors. Instant confirmation. If the donor does not know their bank details or wants to read up more on information before they accept they can choose to get a link sent to their email and confirm safely at home with bankID. Our solution has now been live for a while and have successfully helped with removing a lot of manual work.
You can find me at a few different places. Say hello or just take a sneak peak at my social media life why don't you.
You can find me at a few different places. Say hello or just take a sneak peak at my social media life why don't you.
– Gabriel Heijmer, Digital Project Manager at Taxi Stockholm