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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.
What methodology did Forrester use to rank the winners of the VoC Awards?
I found a reference to some 2009 research by Forrester that says that people will abandon a website if it takes more than 3 seconds to load a page. Do you know if this has been updated?