For Customer Experience Professionals (Length: 17 pages)

July 13, 2007

Building Better Online Brand Experiences

How Do The Top 16 UK Brands Perform In Forrester's Web Site Brand Review?

by Tim van Tongeren

with Jaap Favier, Craig Menzies, Lauriane Camus

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Firms spend millions of euros on building their brand through advertising, site design, and online branding. Our heuristic evaluation of 16 large brands in the UK, however, reveals that only one brand creates a consistent experience across different media with a useful and usable Web site. Customer experience professionals must get basic site usability principles right before trying to differentiate through the online experience.

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NOTES & RESOURCES

itemHow Good Is The Web Site Brand Experience Of 16 B2C Firms In The UK?

itemBrand Image: Five Of The 16 Sites Passed Our Tests

itemThere Were Common Problems With Communicating Image

itemBrand Action: Only Two Of The 16 Sites Passed Our Tests

itemCommon Usability Flaws Undermine The Overall User Experience

recommendations

itemDesign Sites With Brand Action And Brand Image In Mind

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester reviewed 16 UK B2C sites in Q1 2007 and interviewed five branding agencies: Agency.com, Interbrand, Lippincott Mercer, OgilvyOne, and Rufus Leonard.

Related Research Documents

itemExecutive Q&A: Web Site Brand Reviews

May 18, 2007

itemHow Well Do Sites Build Their Brands?

April 3, 2007

itemHow UK Bank Brands Succeed Online

April 3, 2007

itemHow Brands Succeed Online

June 9, 2005

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Technology: Brand Management, Brand Strategy, Customer Experience, Design & Usability Processes, Interactive Marketing, Marketing & Advertising, Web Site Design
Industry: Business-To-Consumer eCommerce, eBusiness/eCommerce, eBusiness/eCommerce Best Practices
Geography: Europe

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