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Kerry is a vice president and principal analyst in Forrester's customer experience research practice and the coauthor of Forrester's book, Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business. Kerry leads Forrester's research on customer experience design and innovation. She taps into her past work as both a design practitioner and leader to help Forrester clients develop empathy for customer needs and co-create experiences that truly matter — for their customers, for their employees, and for their business. She’s also the creative force behind the customer experience ecosystem, a framework that helps companies diagnose and fix customer problems at their roots.
Kerry's research, analysis, and opinions appear frequently on sites like Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, USA Today, and Advertising Age. She also contributes a regular column to Touchpoint, the journal published by the Service Design Network. An accomplished and frequently requested speaker, Kerry has keynoted major conferences on customer experience, design, and marketing around the globe.
In previous roles, Kerry has led consumer research teams; guided the design of websites, mobile apps, and branded social networks; designed interfaces for robots and wearable devices; and, in 1995, developed a social shopping prototype for AT&T Bell Labs. She has also completed stints as both a management consultant and an advertising executive.
Kerry holds a master's degree in human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate degree in cognitive science and psychology from Indiana University.
Vision: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Even companies that make customer experience a strategic priority struggle to implement major long-lasting improvements. That's because they fail to connect behind-the-scenes activities to customer...
Business Case: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
This report is an update to "Why Customer Experience? Why Now?" originally published on October 4, 2011. We've entered the age of the customer — an era where a focus on customers matters more...
Consumers are spending more and more time online, seeking out experiences that are relevant, engaging, and personal. However, many Web sites make users struggle to complete simple goals, have little...
What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead
While consumer technology adoption was the impetus for many customer experience efforts in 2011, an increasingly competitive industry landscape, the ever-increasing power of consumers, and a slippery...
What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead
In 2011, the customer experience ecosystem will expand to include a dizzying array of new devices, touchpoints, and physical interactions. The breadth of this emerging ecosystem and the number of...
Processes: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Whenever we ask customer experience professionals how important it is to improve their digital customer experiences, they reply emphatically, "It's critical!" But still firms struggle to identify...

What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead
Over the past two years, consumer technology adoption and market forces have catapulted the field of customer experience into strategic stature. But it will be years before customer experience is...

Expectations For Consumer Electronics, Travel, Banking, And Media Sites
We asked more than 5,000 survey participants to tell us what Web site content and functionality they'd most like to see from four industries: consumer electronics (CE), travel, banking, and media. We...
Avenue A | Razorfish, Critical Mass, Organic, and R/GA Lead The Pack
Forrester evaluated the Web design capabilities of leading interactive marketing agencies across 18 criteria. Our analysis identifies Avenue A | Razorfish, Critical Mass, Organic, and R/GA as Leaders...
Evolving Web Design Service Offerings Will Change Client-Agency Relationships
The Web design industry is undergoing a period of rapid change — and over the next 12 to 18 months, a new kind of agency will emerge from today's fragmented array of Web design providers. These...
Focus On Hiring, Training, Incentives, and Metrics
Call centers offer companies daily opportunities to create meaningful connections with customers. When this happens, businesses increase customer loyalty and generate incremental revenue. But...
Forrester asked more than 5,000 online consumers about the content and functionality they'd most like on a variety of industry Web sites. In this document, we take a closer look at what consumers...
What Every Client Should Know Before Issuing An RFP For Web Design Work
The interactive agency selection process is tough. Narrowing the field from hundreds of potential players to just one partner can be a daunting task — one that can make or break a Web exec's...
Forrester asked more than 5,000 online consumers about the content and functionality they'd most like on a variety of industry Web sites. In this document, we take a closer look at what consumers...
A Recap Of The Service Design Network 2010 Conferences
The 2010 Service Design Network conferences in Europe and the US highlighted organizations that achieved a higher level of customer experience through design innovation. Examples spanned industries...
Call Center Satisfaction Ties To Loyalty Across 11 Industries
Call center satisfaction correlates with three loyalty metrics: consumers' willingness to repurchase, reluctance to switch, and likelihood to recommend. Call satisfaction also correlates highly with...
How Focusing On Callers And Agents Can Drive Business Results
Today, user-centered design isn't widely used to improve call center interactions. That needs to change. When applied in the call center, the core activities of a user-centered design process —...
Results From The Usability Professionals' Association's 2007 Salary Survey
More than 900 US-based user experience (UX) professionals — including information architects, usability practitioners, and interface designers — responded to the 2007 salary survey that...
In-Person Self-Service Moves From Dull Kiosks To Engaging Interactions
While most digital channels have experienced significant innovations over the past few years, in-person self-service still focuses on the same appliance that's been around for more than three...
Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Call Center Agent Interactions Across 13 Industries
Consumers report low satisfaction for conversations with call center agents. PC manufacturers, TV service providers, and Internet service providers receive the brunt of their ire. The good news? The...

Forrester asked more than 5,000 online consumers about the content and functionality they'd most like on a variety of industry Web sites. In this document, we take a closer look at what consumers...
Forrester asked more than 5,000 online consumers about the content and functionality they'd most like on a variety of industry Web sites. In this document, we take a closer look at what consumers...
Assessment: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Customer interactions are shaped by a complex set of interdependencies that Forrester calls the customer experience ecosystem. In order to make significant and long-lasting customer experience...
We asked 15 of the largest interactive marketing agencies in North America to tell us which emerging technologies will have the greatest impact on the future of their design practices. Agencies named...
Self-Assessments Show Lack Of Rigor In Design Processes And Poor Site Quality
Companies need to design Web sites that are not only useful (offer value) and usable (provide easy access to value) but also desirable (appeal to emotions). To find out how prepared firms are to take...