Marriott Global Digital Design | Variate

Overview

Marriott International is the world’s largest hotel company with 1 million+ employees, 30 brands, 7,000+ hotels, and 110M+ loyalty members. Its website gets 500M+ unique visitors a year.

Separate teams managed and maintained each brand, platform, and service, creating maintenance issues and a disjointed customer experience. We worked with Marriott leadership for more than six years. In that time, we led more than 40 strategic and tactical projects to:

Reimagine the customer experience across all digital touchpoints and services
Unite all digital teams around a shared design system, governance model, and improved process

The reimagined customer experience led to more revenue and happier, more engaged customers. The new design system and process are used organization-wide and have created better designs and more efficient, empowered teams that enjoy working together.

What We Did

New design system for 30+ brands
New responsive mobile app
Redesigned global booking site
Redesigned on-property systems
Design for 20+ services
Redesigned multiple on-property software platforms
New standards team, design process, and governance model
Branding and tone of voice for multiple brands
Vision for transformation and customer experience

Outcomes

Revenue increase in 4 years

Star rating with 1M+ reviews

YoY increase in loyalty enrollments

Hotels migrated to new platform

Brands supported in the design system

M+

Employees trained on a new learning platform

1. Let the customer journey lead the way

The Marriott customer journey is cyclical, and it’s common for business and leisure guests to simultaneously be in different stages. We clarified key moments in that journey to highlight the most significant revenue opportunities for the upcoming year. With funding secured, we worked with teams across the company to redesign products, services, and the overall design process.

1. Let the customer journey lead the way

2. Start with the product that has the most opportunity

Our approach to creating a new omnichannel design system is to start with one product. We led an internal redesign of the Marriott mobile app and used it as the genesis for the new design system. Once the app launched, we created mobile responsive design system files and interviewed more than 300 hotel guests as the foundation for our Marriott.com and booking path redesign.

2. Start with the product that has the most opportunity

3. Design a flexible framework that allows for branding

We designed the new customer experience so that Marriott’s 30+ brands could coexist and, when desired, offer a brand-specific experience at various points of the customer journey.

3. Design a flexible framework that allows for branding

We designed the new customer experience so that Marriott’s 30+ brands could coexist and, when desired, offer a brand-specific experience at various points of the customer journey.

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3 Big Takeaways

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Let the customer journey lead the way

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Let the customer journey lead the way

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Start with the product that has the most opportunity

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Start with the product that has the most opportunity

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Design a flexible framework that allows for branding

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Design a flexible framework that allows for branding

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