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Scribd.com is the world's premier web site for finding and sharing a variety of documents from PowerPoint presentations to eBooks. As a YCombinator start-up, Scribd saw tremendous growth in its maiden year, helping it become the undisputed leader in online document viewing and sharing as well as one of the 300 most-trafficked websites in the world.

With a rapidly growing user base, new investors, and new competition on the horizon, Scribd sought to take their online product to the next level to further distinguish itself as the industry leader and to accelerate user and content growth. Scribd engaged Montparnas to help develop a strategy for improving the product as well as to execute the user experience design that would serve as the basis for a major redesign.

Montparnas worked closely with the founding executives to understand the organization's business objectives and challenges, while identifying and prioritizing areas of improvement. The team also consulted with the product development team to gather and analyze data, including analytics. This analysis led to granular strategies for each of the key areas within the product. With a concrete redesign strategy in place, Montparnas employed user-centered design principles to optimize the information architecture and interaction design of a number of key product areas including the upload process, registration process, homepage, and document page.

Montparnas then worked with the product development team to test and refine the user experience design to ensure measurable improvements. In A/B testing, upload conversion was optimized by 13%, visits to the search page increased by about 44%, and registration conversion improved by about 12%.

Flurry is one of the world's leading mobile applications, providing email and RSS feed access to users in over 200 countries. Unlike other mobile email applications, Flurry works with most mobile devices and on most mobile networks. Users in places as varied as Pakistan and France can access their email and read news feeds with Flurry wherever they have mobile service.

Flurry was looking to solidify its position as a top provider of this breed of service while extending its reach to a greater number of active users and to new markets altogether. The company also wanted to increase the lifetime of active users through usability improvements to the application. Finally, Flurry planned to extend its core offerings beyond mobile email to a full, feature-rich mobile platform.

Flurry engaged Montparnas to improve the usability of its mobile client application and to create a fresh and clean feel for the user interface. The user experience redesign aimed to help Flurry stay competitive, extend the lifetime of current users, and allow for integration of new features and expansion of Flurry to a true mobile platform. And all this had to be accomplished within a relatively short time line of less than a month.

The redesign resulted in a unique mobile experience that presented a manageable amount of information to users and gave them quick access to their most important tasks. The interface design not only accomplished succinctness and efficiency in a limited display space but was also extensible to greatly varying screen resolutions. In addition, the user experience design standardized navigation and the menu system, so users could always tell where they could go and how to get back. The new user experience was articulated in annotated wireframes (blueprints) that showed screens with accompanying menus and states. The new design was more robust, easier to use and feature-rich, allowing Flurry to stay ahead of its competition.

AllBusiness (www.allbusiness.com) is one of the web's premier business sites, helping business professionals find answers to their real-world questions. Its site offerings include business news, business guides, expert advice, business blogs, business forms, contracts and agreements, directory listings, and more.

With a topical, rather than industry-specific, site navigation, our client wanted to ensure that the site also effectively facilitated industry-specific browsing. In early 2007, AllBusiness approached Montparnas for assistance in re-designing their "Industry Centers"--one-stop shops offering access to all the resources related to a specific industry within the site.

To gain a better understanding of the company's goals, Montparnas first conducted a series of stakeholder interviews. Montparnas' consultants also reviewed marketing studies for user types, analyzed site analytics for patterns of user behavior, and conducted a heuristic evaluation of the few existing Industry Centers.

Subsequently, Montparnas created a strategy document which included the research findings, personas, and synthesized user goals specific to All Business Industry Centers. Utilizing the personas and user goals as a foundation, Montparnas' consultants created task flows and use cases to begin specifications for the interaction design.

The final redesign provided structure, while preserving the breadth of resources available from Industry Center pages, and integrating particular types of resources, like Industry Advisors, that had been previously invisible or estranged from the Industry Centers.