Audience research

How a financial services brand changed how it talks to deaf, hard of hearing and non-speaking customers

A financial services brand wanted to serve deaf, hard of hearing and non-speaking customers better. Standard research shut those voices out, so we built a method that didn't.

Client
Financial services brand
Sector
Financial services
Markets

Standard research shut these voices out

A financial services brand wanted to serve deaf, hard of hearing and non-speaking customers better.

The brand couldn't improve what it couldn't hear. And standard research methods shut these customers' voices out.

The brand needed to hear from these customers directly, on a method that let them be heard.

How do you ask for someone's views when the usual methods shut them out?

The approach

They couldn't tell us. So we asked them to show us.

We designed a methodology that let participants draw their opinions as artwork.

Their views, on their terms.

It was a method the client hadn't used before. They trusted us to deliver the insight they needed.

Brief to debrief took eight weeks.

What changed

+35 NPS within the same group

A change in how the brand communicates. Across email and every other channel.

+35 NPS within the same group at the next wave.

Insight that changed how the customer service team operates.

More than the client thought the study could deliver.

In their words
A brilliant study and something completely different that we haven't done before. But TRD smashed it. We hadn't tried the methodology before but we trusted them to gain the insights we required to change how our customer service team operates. It without doubt provided even more than we thought it could. A brilliant piece of work.
Head of Communications

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