
Thinking more broadly than the core use case of users actively seeking to make reservations, I decided to improve the experience of encouraging users to book reservations at popular restaurants they intend to go to when they don't yet know that reservations are advised. What about a Yelp experience in which a user looks up a popular restaurant on Yelp, goes to the location and finds out that they should've booked a table in advance? In this situation, the Yelp user does NOT know that they need to make a reservation and Yelp's greatest asset, its user-generated restaurant reviews, is turned into a poor user experience. One major assumption about the task flow is that the user knows they need to make a reservation.


How do I make a reservation Method 2 To make a restaurant reservation, call as far ahead of time as possible.

You can choose a date and time when you want to make a reservation by pressing this button. Look for the Find a Table button next to the phone number on a business profile page.
#Yelp reservations video series#
I decided to put the usability of Yelp Reservations under the test with a series of design exercises. Reservations can be made from the Yelp app. Yelp recently kicked off a marketing campaign to promote Yelp Reservations in San Francisco with a billboard near the 4th and King Caltrain station and television commercials.Īs an avid Yelp user, I wanted to learn how visible this feature was in the application itself.
