Frame · Intent · Assess · Design · Prepare · Execute · Measure
Experience Framework: From raw feedback to a measured outcome
Tools change; the discipline doesn't. What matters is an unbroken chain of evidence: every backlog item traceable back through the blueprint and the journey to the customer feedback that justified it, and forward to the measured change it produced.
This working miniature follows one hotel pre-arrival problem from framing to measurement. Five guided interactions let you change the evidence and decisions; whatever you change upstream lands downstream, while the chapter matrix moves from blank at kick-off to accounted for at close.
Viewing time
About 5 minutes
Professional capability shown
Evidence-led service design: keeping customer signals, strategic intent, service decisions, delivery work and measured guest and business outcomes traceable to one another.
- Tools shown
- Dovetail, Smaply, Miro, ClickUp, Power BI
- Interactive
- 5 of 7 lifecycle stages respond
- Data
- Illustrative, no client material
Interface patterns evoke the tools these teams use daily, and every stage lists tool-agnostic alternatives. The discipline is the point, not the software.
Guided walkthrough
Five actions, one traceable chain
- 01
Link the intent
Choose the strategic objective the change must serve.
- 02
Complete the evidence
Tag the unclassified customer quote and watch the theme count update.
- 03
Make the design decision
Cast the deciding dot vote on the service-blueprint options.
- 04
Inspect the backlog
Open a job-to-be-done and follow its chain of custody.
- 05
Read the outcome
Switch the dashboard to 90 days after go-live and read the delta.
The framework
A value-generation cycle, scaled to the problem
The same seven stages form a repeatable cycle across every engagement, whether that is a single workshop or a multi-year, Board-level programme. Each stage produces the outcome that unlocks the next; measurement feeds what should be framed next.
Value generationcycle
Selected stage
01Frame
Name the real problem, not the presenting symptom.
Decision to make
What are we really trying to change, and whose evidence proves it?
What this produces
A shared, evidence-backed problem definition with a clear scope.
Illustrative data · real method
0/5 tried
Chapter kick-off · Custom AI-enabled matrix
One chapter, one master view
A chapter is a collection of journeys spanning one service lifecycle; this one is pre-arrival. Its master matrix crosses the guest journey episodes with the seven value-generation phases. Every cell asks a key question, and an in-house AI assistant helps draft the answer. Blank at kick-off; populated by the time you reach the end of this page.
Chapter: pre-arrival
0 of 7 phases recorded
Discover
Consider
Commit
Experience
Remember
Rediscover
1 · Frame
2 · Intent
3 · Assess
4 · Design
5 · Prepare
6 · Execute
7 · Measure
Each cell opens its key question with AI-suggested answers. A fully interactive version of this matrix is on the roadmap for this site.
01 · Frame · Decision paper
Name the real problem
Before any tool opens, the problem gets named in stakeholder and commercial terms. Everything downstream inherits this sentence.
Problem statement · agreed with sponsors
Guests arrive at the resort already tired of us: the pre-arrival experience creates avoidable contacts, erodes confidence and depresses direct-booking conversion.
Tool agnostic ·Custom AI-enabled matrixClickUpJiraExcelGoogle Sheets
02 · Intent · OKR alignment
Anchor the change to objectives
Intent is not a feature list. It is the change the organisation wants, tied to the objectives it already committed to. Work that cannot link here does not proceed.
Try it: link the intent to at least one strategic objective. Your choice reappears in Measure.
Intent statement
Guests should arrive already confident: one confirmation, nothing to re-check, nothing to queue for.
Serves which strategic objectives?
Tool agnostic ·ClickUp DocsConfluenceIn-house intranet
03 · Assess · Dovetail + Smaply
Evidence, tagged and mapped
The current state, understood with evidence. Feedback is coded into themes in Dovetail; the themes land on the journey in Smaply exactly where guests feel them.
Try it: one quote is still untagged. Accept the suggested theme, then click a pain point on the journey to see the evidence behind it.
Themes
I booked the suite but honestly could not tell from the email what was actually included.
Guest interview 04 · Unclear confirmation
We landed at 1am and still queued twenty minutes to check in.
Guest interview 11 · Check-in wait
The upgrade email offered a room type we had already booked.
Survey response 62 · Generic upgrades
Two confirmations arrived with different cancellation terms. Which one do I trust?
Research synthesis · tool agnostic ·DovetailQualtricsMedalliaAirtableSurveyMonkeyClickUp Forms
Stages
Emotion
Pains
Discover
Consider
Commit
Experience
Remember
Rediscover
Journey management · tool agnostic ·SmaplyTheyDoMiroClickUp Whiteboard
04 · Design · Miro
Options on the service blueprint
Two responses to the same Commit pain sit on one blueprint: Option A treats it at Commit, fixing the confirmation where the pain starts; Option B absorbs it downstream at Experience, making arrival so seamless the confusion stops mattering. Swimlanes run from guest to systems, wireframed at every guest-facing touchpoint, so the room debates the same picture. In the workshop, dots decide.
Try it: cast your dot vote on an option, like the workshop would. The winner drives Prepare and Measure.
Option A: one everything-included confirmation
Treats the Commit pain at Commit, where it starts
Option B: kerbside check-in on airport pickup
Treats the Commit pain at Experience, downstream
Guest
Your stay, all in one place
Everything included: your itinerary
You're checked in. Room 1204.
SMS
Your driver is 5 min away. Check-in is already done.
Frontstage
Confirmation rebuilt as one live view
Driver triggers the arrival flow
Backstage
Systems
Tool agnostic ·MiroMuralFigJamClickUp Whiteboard
05 · Prepare · ClickUp
Jobs-to-be-done into a prioritised backlog
The selected option decomposes into jobs-to-be-done that keep their whole history. Nothing in the backlog has amnesia.
Try it: expand a task to see its full chain of custody, from quote to backlog.
Tool agnostic ·ClickUpJiraAzure DevOps
06 · Execute · Delivery
Ship it, with decision rights held close
Execution belongs to the delivery pod. The lifecycle's job here is lighter but essential: keep ownership clear and dependencies honest while the work goes live.
Release note · representative
Option A ships behind release 24.6. Owner: pre-arrival pod. Rollout: 2 properties, then portfolio. Measurement window opens at go-live.
Tool agnostic ·SlackTeamsConfluenceClickUp Docs
07 · Measure · Power BI
The delta, on a dashboard leadership already reads
Ninety days after go-live the loop closes: the same metrics named at Intent, now showing the change. This is what lets the next cycle start from evidence instead of opinion.
Try it: switch the dashboard to 90 days after go-live and read the delta.
Pre-arrival journey health
· Option A pendingConfirmation contacts /100 bookings
18
Pre-arrival CSAT
3.9
Guest effort score
3.2
Confirmation-related contacts, weekly
Tool agnostic ·Power BITableauLooker Studio
Chapter close · Custom AI-enabled matrix
The same matrix, now accounted for
Everything the walkthrough produced has landed in its cell, still traceable. Each phase's chip names the valuable outcome that unlocks the next phase; click any chip to revisit the stage that produced it.
Chapter: pre-arrival
2 of 7 phases recorded
Work starts where the pain is felt and finishes where intended guest value is created.
Both options treat the same Commit pain. Cast your dot at the Design stage to decide where intended guest value is created.
Discover
Consider
Commit
pain felt hereguest value intended hereExperience
Remember
Rediscover
1 · Frame
2 · Intent
3 · Assess
4 · Design
5 · Prepare
6 · Execute
7 · Measure
Cells stay linked to their evidence, decisions and measures.
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