Comcast · Xfinity · Activation & Onboarding

Multi-Product Activation: a smart way to bundle

A cohesive, personalized way to set up any Xfinity product, built on choreo, a shared language for consistent experiences.

RoleSr. Director, CX Design (CXD)
TeamVirtual cross-team effort: 6 teams, 30 people
SurfacesXfinity App · X1 / Flex 10-ft TV · SMS
In motion

A few moments from the experience.

The welcome-back, a personalized home, and the Peacock reveal, from the working prototype. The full story follows.

Overview

Customers don’t buy products. They buy outcomes.

Activation was where Xfinity kept losing people: inconsistent flows across products, awkward handoffs between them, and conflicting messaging within them. Multi-Product Activation (MPA) reimagined onboarding as one guided, personalized experience, so a customer could bundle entertainment and internet and simply have it work.

Customer values: tell me the truth, make it unique to me, do not make me think, stay one step ahead

Grounded in research. Four customer values shaped every decision: honesty, personalization, effortlessness, and staying a step ahead.

The framework

What is choreo?

A shared approach to developing consistent, personalized, and holistic interactions across every Xfinity touchpoint, across products, between products, and within a single product. It gave dozens of teams one way to compose experiences that felt like one company.

Choreo: a shared approach to consistent, personalized, holistic interactions
Why choreo: inconsistency across, between, and within products and its cost to customers
MPA moving forward: universal activation, product enablement, personalized guidance, cohesive platform
Choreo in action across order confirmation, SMS, and activation
The team

A virtual cross-team effort.

Six teams and thirty people, aligned around one experience. I led experience strategy, UX and creative direction, and product requirements definition, bridging design, engineering, product, and program into shared ownership.

The cross-functional MPA team: 6 teams, 30 people, led by Mary Salvatera across experience strategy, PRD, and creative direction

Choreo cross-team workshop in FigJam, timelapse.

The model

Set up, connect, and a reusable component system.

We defined the goal state as two clear phases, Set Up and Connect, then built reusable Invite and Guide interaction modules so any product, device, or customer could move through activation on a consistent spine.

Goal state: customer set up, home set up, and device connect
Foundation and phasing: invite, provisioning, firmware, RF and WiFi connectivity, health monitoring
MPA MVP choreo interaction modules: invite and guide elements
Success criteria: adoption, activation success, self-install tNPS
The MVP

One focused path through Flex activation.

We proved the model on a real journey, activating Flex on the Xfinity App with XA support woven throughout: customer set up, device validation, device set up, and provisioning, each step net-new or significantly improved.

Set up, in motion

The Xfinity App guiding a customer through Flex set up, step by step, from “First, let’s set up” to a fully connected home.

Voice-guided activation micro-interactions: listening, processing, and activating, with XA support throughout.

MVP scope: evolved XA messaging, Bluetooth on gateway, Flex validation and setup, seamless TV handoff
MPA MVP flow across internet, video, and Flex plus X1
Customer set up: tailored account and preferences with one clear set of instructions
Device validation: Bluetooth pairing on gateway and Flex validation on the Xfinity app
Validate through the Xfinity App or TV: one focused, clear path forward
Provisioning with the updated Lightning UI for Flex and X1

The 10-foot TV experience: profile and avatar selection on X1 and Flex, in the refreshed Lightning UI.

Designing for reality

There is never an unhappy path, just the customer’s path.

Real activations stall: a system outage, a step skipped, a customer who jumps to another channel. We mapped every pivot and designed graceful recovery, nudges, reminders, and XA support, so every route still led to a successful outcome.

Accounting for all pivots in the activation journey
Pivot flow: reminders, XA support, and recovery for every stalled path
Prototype highlights

An activation that welcomes you back and knows you.

The prototype turned setup into a warm, personal moment: a welcome-back that remembered the customer, an order confirmation that felt like a reveal rather than a receipt, and a glimpse of Peacock brought forward to make the value tangible from the first tap.

The polished Flex activation flow, personalization, and the value moment, straight from the working prototype.

A personal invitation to download the Xfinity App
Clear customer benefit starts the conversation
Always available to help 24/7 through the Xfinity Assistant
Order confirmation that is visual, dynamic, and exciting
Share your current network for seamless activation
Existing home network detected, let us confirm
Rich profile creation prior to activation

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North star

Make activation a non-event.

The vision pushed provisioning left, out of the customer’s way entirely, and imagined multi-sensory, spatially aware setup: 3D and LIDAR mapping for optimal gateway placement, a WiFi visualizer, and sound, color, and haptics to communicate progress inclusively.

North star 2022+: optimized pre-activation, rich profiles, provisioning moved left

Sound, color, and light communicating progress and connection, inclusively.

Device validation as a non-event: detecting when a package is opened
Personalized guidance in device set up using AR and LIDAR for optimal gateway placement
Impact & outcomes

A smarter bundle that customers finished, and felt good about.

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Self-install tNPS lift

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xFi App adoption (28 to 49%)

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On-screen success rate (up 10 pts)

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Flex connects

Business impact that stacked up

Beyond the experience, MPA and choreo drove hard operational and financial results across the activation base.

$9M EBITDAProjected over five years from the activation improvements.
-1.4M contactsContact reduction from proactive nudges.
300KWiFi-ready customers enabled.
+9%Xfinity Mobile penetration with HSD.
Impact and outcomes: xFi adoption, success rate, contact reduction, connects, EBITDA, tNPS

One company, one activation, one smart bundle.

Choreo gave many teams a shared language, and turned the hardest moment in the customer journey into a reason to stay.