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Adele serves Customer Experience professionals. She helps them improve customer experiences and related business results by identifying both problems and solutions through tools like voice of the customer programs and customer-centric testing methodologies. Adele has been instrumental in the development of many of Forrester’s user experience evaluation methodologies, including the Website, IVR, and Cross-Channel User Experience Reviews. Adele’s research also includes best practices for digital experiences — focused mainly on website and phone self-service design.
Prior to becoming an analyst, Adele was a researcher at Forrester. In that role, she was a key contributor to updating, maintaining, and applying the Forrester Website User Experience Review and Cross-Channel User Experience Review methodologies.
Adele holds a B.A. in psychology from Harvard University.
Benchmarks: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2011" originally published on November 18, 2011. This report outlines how customer experience professionals can benchmark...
Customer Experience Professionals Share Plans For Design Tools, Budgets, And Staffing
During the past few years, Forrester has seen tremendous momentum for digital design projects as digital touchpoints proliferate. And the trend held true this year, too: A recent survey of...

This is the reviewer's guide for Forrester's IVR User Experience Review 8.0 scorecard.
Forrester Applies Its Web-Phone User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top US Firms
Forrester applied its Web-Phone User Experience Review methodology to the experiences at four large PC laptop manufacturers: Apple, Dell, HP, and Toshiba. The results: Apple came out ahead, but the...
Forrester's IVR User Experience Review uncovers flaws that prevent users from accomplishing key goals in interactive voice response (IVR) systems. This document provides answers to some of the common...

This is the working scorecard for Forrester's IVR User Experience Review, version 8.0.
Forrester recently attended SpeechTEK 2009, where presenters focused on using speech technologies to improve the phone self-service customer experience. Among speakers' top recommendations: Don't...
With low phone self-service satisfaction rates, there's lots of room to improve IVR systems. Our research uncovered five low-cost techniques that improve routing, boost containment rates, increase...
An Industry Look At This Year's Best And Worst Of Cross-Channel Design
As part of a larger analysis of 16 firms, Forrester evaluated the cross-channel experiences of four large online travel agencies — Expedia, Orbitz, priceline.com, and Travelocity. Overall, the...
Forrester Applies Its IVR Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms
Forrester applied its IVR Review methodology to the phone self-service experiences at 16 US firms — four each of the largest auto insurers, discount retailers, footwear manufacturers, and...
Forrester Applies Its IVR Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms
Forrester applied its IVR Review methodology to the phone self-service experiences at 16 firms — four each of the largest airlines, banks, department stores, and MP3 player manufacturers. Among...