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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.
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...
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...
Business Case: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "Web Sites That Don't Support Customers' Goals Waste Millions" originally published on February 17, 2010. To understand the effect of poor website usability, Forrester...

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...
Some small Web site projects yield quick ROI. Our research uncovered eight low-cost techniques that increase conversion rates, boost cross-sell opportunities, help users find products, and improve...
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...
Performance Management: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "What Are The Right Web Customer Experience Success Metrics?" originally published on July 20, 2011. Good website customer experience metrics fulfill two purposes:...

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...
Since 1999, Forrester has used its Website User Experience Review methodology to evaluate the user experience of 1,500 websites spanning business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B)...

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...
This is the reviewer's guide for Forrester's Website User Experience 8.0 scorecard.
Forrester's Click-To-Chat Evaluation Uncovers Best Practices
Consumers like the immediacy of chatting with agents on a company Web site, but they aren't satisfied with the experience. To identify ways for improving these experiences, Forrester applied its...
Forrester asked consumers about the channels they use when researching, buying, and getting customer service. In-store experiences were the most popular and the most satisfying across activities,...
Forrester's Web Site Review uncovers flaws that prevent users from accomplishing key goals on Web sites. This document provides answers to some of the common questions we've been asked during more...
Forrester's Website User Experience Review uncovers flaws that prevent users from accomplishing key goals on Websites. This document provides answers to some of the common questions we've been asked...
Time To Get Serious About Social Voice Of The Customer
Most consumers have gotten poor service at some point in the past year. Among that group, the vast majority told friends or family about their disappointing experiences. To understand the causes of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Forrester asked US consumers what they did after their first channel of choice — either Web or phone — failed to provide the information they needed. Our data shows that among those who...
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....
Click-to-chat reviews uncover flaws that prevent users from accomplishing key goals by chatting with agents. To get the most out of the click-to-chat interaction review, site owners should identify...