For these of you who aren’t intimately accustomed to Iterable Studio, that is our journey builder, previously often known as “Workflow Studio.” This is the place inside the Iterable platform the place entrepreneurs construct a wide range of buyer journeys like welcome flows, buy follow-ups, deserted cart sequences, and re-engagement flows. This is the place the magic occurs.
What seems like a good looking refresh to our well-worn and well-loved Workflow Studio, is in actual fact an entire rewrite of each function and each interplay. Why overhaul Iterable Studio? Marketers spend a whole lot of time constructing, tweaking, and reviewing efficiency of their journeys. As considered one of Iterable’s most used merchandise, we wished Studio to sing!
The Updates
While a lot of our clients had gotten used to the previous design, and had loads of habits and workarounds to make it work the approach they wished, the expertise of constructing out workflows felt stodgy, the place we wished gentle, simple, pleasant, and joy-inducing.
Connie Chan, our designer extraordinaire, reinvented how a person would work together with Studio, leveraging our new design language, Aurora. The aim: to make it a lot simpler and sooner for entrepreneurs to construct out their journeys by including plenty of house, intuitive patterns, and all of the wanted sources. Throughout the course of, she requested clients to play with prototypes to substantiate their understanding of updates to the person expertise and decide methods we may make it even simpler to make use of.
We additionally wished to ensure that we had been utilizing language that made sense and felt good. Along with a dated design, the previous Workflow Studio used a whole lot of jargon—workflows, nodes, fields match, subject cut up, oh my! We labored with our docs author, Elizabeth Mills, who not solely helped us embody extra user-friendly language, she additionally labored with Connie and I to discover person interactions, to ensure they had been so simple as potential. As we labored to replace the language in Studio, we interviewed our clients to seek out out which phrases finest aligned with their operate.
Getting User Feedback
It was essential to begin getting person suggestions as early as potential—not simply by prototypes and interviews, however instantly from entrepreneurs utilizing the new Studio.To that finish, we determined to launch our beta with a subset of the full Studio performance. We centered on constructing out the most crucial options first and gave entrepreneurs the capacity to hop forwards and backwards between the traditional Workflow Studio and the new Studio, in order that their work wouldn’t be interrupted, and we may nonetheless study as a lot as potential.
We discovered how our clients interacted with the new Studio over zoom kick-off calls, the place they shared their display screen and all of the locations they stumbled. This gave us nice insights into what was simple to know and what we wanted to remodel.
In March we opened the floodgates, giving everybody the alternative to check out the new Studio—and we discovered much more! Every buyer is exclusive, with alternative ways of utilizing knowledge and configuring journeys, and we undoubtedly discovered alternatives to additional enhance Studio.
And now, the new Studio is the solely Studio. The previous Workflow Studio is having fun with retirement.🌴
New Features in Iterable Studio
What are a few of the options we’re most enthusiastic about? Besides the attractive design?! Here are my favorites:
- Send to Journey: We’ve made it tremendous simple to circulate customers from one journey to a different. You can create a brand new journey to ship customers to, proper inside the journey you’re constructing, they usually’ll be robotically linked.
- Notes: With notes, you may remind your self why you set one thing up a sure approach, collaborate with others, ask for opinions, and simply typically higher doc the sturdy, impressively sophisticated journeys you’re constructing! We’re so thrilled to have the ability to assist with this new function.
- Analytics in Studio: With analytics in studio, it’s a lot simpler to check metrics throughout campaigns so you may see alternatives for optimization.
What’s much more thrilling? The new Iterable Studio is way simpler to construct upon. We’ve received a slew of latest options coming to Studio that we will’t wait to share with you. Here’s what’s coming quickly:
- Drafts: Drafts mean you can edit a journey in the background whereas your customers proceed by the printed model of your journey as standard. Edit some tiles, get a teammate to evaluate your draft, and publish your modifications whenever you’re prepared.
- Tilesets: Build journeys shortly and extra effectively by dropping in widespread patterns that you simply use lots. Tilesets are a set of tiles, connectors, and notes you can create from a journey you’ve beforehand constructed. You can insert a tileset into any journey that you’re constructing (inside the identical mission). This was a Hack Week mission, dreamt up by our genius engineers who had been searching for a solution to simplify your course of. I undoubtedly work with a dream group!
- Exit Rules: Set guidelines that, when matched, will exit clients from a journey. For instance, as soon as a buyer has made a purchase order, you may wish to take away them from the deserted cart journey that they had been shifting by.
This is simply the begin—we now have a LOT extra in the works and coming your approach quickly. We actually hope that you simply’re loving the new Iterable Studio, and are enthusiastic about what’s coming. And, in case you are utilizing the new Studio, we’d love to listen to from you! Use the suggestions button in Studio to share your ideas. We take your suggestions very significantly so please, preserve it coming!
Want to get your eyes on the new Studio? Check out our Spring launch webinar.