Beats – Tempo
Award: Graphite Pencil
Graphite Pencil / Design Transformation / Operational Transformation / 2020
Award: Wood Pencil
Wood Pencil / Digital Design / Service Digitisation
In 2019, Beats was preparing to launch Powerbeats Pro and Solo Pro, but it faced a challenge. How do you train hundreds of thousands of retail employees on a product they can’t yet hold, headphones they can’t yet hear, or explain technology that is still in production? Introducing Tempo: a highly dynamic, universal retail training platform that can scale to a global salesforce overnight. Tempo redefined the way Beats engages, connects, and educates audiences. It launched in 20+ languages, trained over 600,000 employees world-wide, and saw pre-order channel sales rise 2.13x
What did the judges have to say?
Beats has a sincere and exaggerated design. It solves the retail channel experience of unmanned services and also provides customers with good product experience teaching. It is great even as internal employee training material. Inheriting the excellent genes of Apple design aesthetics, it is really excellent in the web exchange experience.
Akae Wang, Executive Creative Director, Tencent
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