Adele Sage

Analyst serving Customer Experience PROFESSIONALS

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.

Previous Work Experience

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.


Education

Adele holds a B.A. in psychology from Harvard University.

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  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Website Experience, 2011

    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...

    • Downloads: 1760
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:The ROI Of UK Web Redesigns Made Simple

    Improving website user experience can increase sales and reduce costs, but many customer experience professionals struggle to estimate the potential value of planned improvements. By constructing a...

    • Downloads: 325
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2010

    Lessons Learned From 35 Website User Experience Reviews Across Six Industries

    In 2010, Forrester reviewed the website user experience of sites in six industries: banks (Canadian and US), discount retailers, health plans, marketing software vendors, PC laptop manufacturers, and...

    • Downloads: 1378
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Europe 2010: Fixing Known Usability Problems Pays Off

    Web site design case studies and consulting projects provide convincing evidence that when European companies fix known Web site usability problems — like those in Forrester's Web Site User...

    • Downloads: 262
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:How Satisfied Are US Consumers With Store-To-Web Shopping?

    Only half of consumers are satisfied with their experiences when researching apparel/footwear/accessories, consumer electronics, and wireless products and services in a store and then purchasing on...

    • Downloads: 693
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Web-Phone User Experience 2010: Discount Retailers

    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 the four largest discount retailers in the US: Costco, Kmart, Target, and Wal-Mart. The results: Target led...

    • Downloads: 297
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  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:How Satisfied Are US Consumers With Web-To-Store Shopping?

    Although single-channel interactions satisfy more than 70% of consumers, the results aren't so great when it comes to Web-to-store shopping. Less than two-thirds of consumers are satisfied when...

    • Downloads: 672
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Footwear Manufacturers' Cross-Channel Experience, 2009

    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 footwear manufacturers — adidas, New Balance, Nike, and Puma. Overall, the footwear...

    • Downloads: 319
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Email Interaction Design, 2009

    Forrester Applies Its Email Interaction Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

    Forrester applied its Email Interaction Review to the email interactions of 16 firms: four each of the largest auto insurers, discount retailers, footwear manufacturers, and online travel agencies....

    • Downloads: 660
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Phone Self-Service Design, 2009

    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...

    • Downloads: 724
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of B2C Site Design, 2009

    Forrester Applies Its Web Site Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

    Forrester applied its Web Site Review methodology to the site experiences at 16 firms — four each of the largest auto insurers, discount retailers, footwear manufacturers, and online travel...

    • Downloads: 1309
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Cross-Channel Design, 2009

    Forrester Applies Its Cross-Channel Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

    Forrester applied its Cross-Channel Review methodology to the experiences at 16 firms — four of the largest auto insurers, discount retailers, footwear manufacturers, and online travel...

    • Downloads: 1383
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Cross-Channel Design, One Channel Pair At A Time

    Simplify Your Approach By Focusing On Pairs Of Channels

    Consumers are moving from channel to channel, but they're not satisfied with the experiences. Since fixing broken cross-channel experiences can be overwhelming, firms should focus on improving pairs...

    • Downloads: 879
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  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:How Satisfied Are Shoppers When Moving Across Channels?

    In Forrester's 2007 Customer Experience Index, retailers nabbed four of the top five slots. But are all retail experiences created equal? Not exactly. In the categories of apparel, wireless products,...

    • Downloads: 595
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Email Interaction Design, 2008

    Forrester Applies Its Email Interaction Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

    Forrester applied its Email Interaction Review to the email interactions of 16 firms: four each of the largest airlines, banks, department stores, and MP3 player manufacturers. None of the 13...

    • Downloads: 625
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Phone Self-Service Design, 2008

    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...

    • Downloads: 630
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Cross-Channel Design, 2008

    Forrester Applies Its Cross-Channel Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

    Forrester applied its Cross-Channel Review methodology to the experiences at 16 firms — four of the largest airlines, banks, department stores, and MP3 player manufacturers. While Delta...

    • Downloads: 1277
 
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