Grapefruit

UX/UI Design

Customer journey mapping and segmentation

Customer journey mapping at Grapefruit shows how each customer segment moves across your website, app, contact centre, stores and campaigns, where they get stuck and what it costs you. We combine research, analytics and behavioural data into journey maps and segments linked to business metrics, then turn the biggest pain points into a prioritised improvement roadmap.

Clients for this service: Work for INGENIUM European University Alliance, Mattca, ANAF D200 (self-initiated concept)

Signs you need this

  • Each department optimises its own channel and the customer experience still feels disconnected.
  • You treat all customers the same because there is no usable segmentation.
  • Churn, complaints or abandoned applications are rising and nobody sees the whole journey.
  • You are planning a new platform or CRM and need to know which journeys it must support.

What we deliver

  • Research plan and fieldwork

    Interviews, surveys and contextual research with customers and staff.

  • Segmentation

    Customer segments based on needs, behaviour and value.

  • Current-state journey maps

    Touchpoints, emotions, pain points and metrics per segment.

  • Future-state journeys

    Target experiences with service blueprints where needed.

  • Improvement roadmap

    Prioritised opportunities with owners and KPIs.

How we work

  1. Frame

    1 week

    Business goals, existing data and journeys in scope.

    You get: Research plan

  2. Research

    2-3 weeks

    Customer and staff interviews, analytics and behavioural data.

    You get: Insights · Segments

  3. Map

    1-2 weeks

    Current-state journeys and pain points per segment.

    You get: Journey maps

  4. Design the future

    1-2 weeks

    Target journeys and prioritised roadmap, agreed in a workshop.

    You get: Future-state journeys · Roadmap

AI in this service

How AI changes customer journey mapping at Grapefruit

AI helps us process the voice of the customer at scale: clustering thousands of reviews, support conversations and survey answers into themes that feed the journey maps. Journey maps are also the best way to find where AI belongs, such as an assistant at a high-volume support moment, so we flag AI opportunities on every map.

Proof

Customer Journey Mapping work for our clients

Grapefruit’s team of specialists quickly understood our needs and objectives, providing us with a communication strategy that incorporated best practices and tools, tailored to our target audience. This contributed significantly to increasing INGENIUM’s visibility both nationally and internationally.
Irina Lungu, Pro-rector of International Relations, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi (TU Iasi) · Read the case study

Industries we deliver customer journey mapping for

Ways to start

Fixed scopeHalf a day to 2 days, summary within 1 week

Discovery Workshop

Align business, IT and legal on what to build first, in one focused session.

  • Pre-workshop survey
  • Facilitated sessions with your decision makers
  • Prioritised initiative canvas with an owner per initiative
  • Written summary with the recommended next step
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Customer Journey Mapping: frequently asked questions

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What is customer journey mapping?

Customer journey mapping visualises the steps a customer takes to reach a goal, such as switching energy supplier or opening an account, across every touchpoint. It shows actions, emotions, pain points and moments that matter, so teams improve the experience as a whole instead of channel by channel.

How does segmentation add value to journey mapping?

Different customers take different paths. Segmentation groups customers by needs, behaviour and value, so each journey map reflects a real group and improvements can be targeted. A first-time customer and a long-term one rarely need the same experience.

What data do you use?

Qualitative research with customers and frontline staff, analytics, CRM and support data, surveys and reviews. We combine what people say with what they do, and we work with anonymised or aggregated data where GDPR requires it.

Is journey mapping a one-time project?

The first mapping is a project; the maps should then live. We design them as editable tools your teams update as behaviour changes and as improvements ship, usually reviewed every 6 to 12 months.

How do journey maps turn into results?

Each pain point is linked to a metric and an owner, and the roadmap ranks opportunities by impact and effort. Improvements then move into design, development, CRM or content work, and the metrics show whether the journey actually improved.

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Mircea Muraru

Delivery Manager · talk to us about customer journey mapping

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