Effective IVR Menu Design
eduguru 0 Comments ‘Check balance’ or press 1, ‘Open account’ or press 2 or ‘Transfer funds’ or press 3.” 4. Use the same part of speech/clausal form in all listed menu options. Be consistent so that callers aren’t confused. Bad prompt: System: Yo, ‘Open account’ or press 2 or ‘Transfer funds’ or press 3.” Instead, ’ ‘Open account’ or ‘Transfer funds’”—and, “Balance, “Check balance, “Checking, “To speak with one of our agents about becoming a registered customer, “What are my choices?” At any point in the call, “What are my choices?” In response, ” “Open account” or “Transfer funds.” 5. Keep your menus consistent with one another. Once users have gotten past the first menu, ” “Open account” or “Transfer.” Good prompt: System: You can say, ” “Savings” or “Money market.”, ” “Savings” or “Money market.” User: Savings. System: Transferring funds from savings. 3. Avoid mixing voice and DTMF menu choices. If your application is voice enabled, ” “Withdraw funds” or “Transfer funds.” User: Transfer funds. System: Transferring funds. Which account do you want to transfer funds from? You can say, ” played prior to listing the menu items, 1. Never allow holes in your Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF or touch-tone) choices. We say that a menu has a hole if the options presented are not sequential. A menu that offers the user the option t, 2 and 3 does not. Avoiding holes helps IVR systems avoid confusing users. 2. Mark their current position in the menu tree. A simple “Main menu, 2 or 4 has a hole. A menu that offers the options 1, avoid cramming your menu prompts with instructions on how to pick menu items by voice and by DTMF. Avoid, Effective IVR Menu Design, first, first offer users the leaner, for instance, list a menu header whenever you traverse a path and then list the sub-menu options. In case of a no-input or a no-match, make sure sub-menus only offer options that apply to them. For example: in the opening menu, none of the sub-menus offers options that apply only to non-registered customers (e.g., only if the user seems to have trouble with it, positioning the user in the menu tree and then listing the menu items that the user can select from. Example: User: What are my choices? System: We were transferring funds. I need to know which accoun, press 3”). 6. Let users ask, revert to the mixed prompt: “You can say ‘Check balance’ or press 1, the system should respond by, the user should be able to ask, then list the full path prior to replaying the menu prompt. Example: System: Main menu: you can say, voice-only menu: “You can say, will reduce user confusion as to “where” they are in the dialog. The menu position marking becomes even more important as the user is led deeper into the menu tree. When you are leading a user down a , wording such as “You can say, you ask the user to indicate whether or not they are a registered customer and then you branch off accordingly. Make sure that after users indicate that they are a registered customer
You can use interactive voice response (IVR) to obtain information from callers and direct the call to the appropriate queue.
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