For Customer Experience Professionals (Length: 18 pages)

April 23, 2007

Best And Worst Of Email Interaction Design, 2007

Forrester Applies Its Email Interaction Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

This is the fourth document in the "Best And Worst Of Experience Design, 2007" series.

by Moira Dorsey

with Adele Sage, Bruce D. Temkin, Vidya L. Drego, Ross Popoff-Walker, Steven Geller


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Forrester applied its Email Interaction Review methodology to the email experiences at 16 firms — four of the largest credit card issuers, consumer electronics retailers, PC manufacturers, and wireless providers. Of the nine companies that actually responded to our emails, none passed, but Circuit City received the highest overall score. Despite the many problems that we found with these email interactions, we also found a number of good practices like Wal-Mart's email headers, Dell's email reply process, and Gateway's placement of privacy policies. To improve email experiences, firms should follow a user-centric approach to designing email interactions.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemExamining The Current State Of Email Interaction Experiences

itemEmail Customer Service Fails The Test: None Of The 16 Firms Passed

itemFlaws In Every Category

itemEmail Interaction Best Practices Among The Flaws

recommendations

itemImprove The Email Channel

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester evaluated the user experience with 16 major firms' email customer service — four large credit card issuers, consumer electronics retailers, PC manufacturers, and wireless providers.

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Analyst: Moira Dorsey
Technology: Channel Design Strategies, Customer Experience, Customer Relationship Management, Packaged Applications
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America