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Navigating The Research-Stakeholder Partnership: Five Lessons From The Field
Getting stakeholders on board is crucial for customer research to have a real impact on decisions. The Forrester report, “Build Effective Research Partnerships To Ensure Impact,” delves into how researchers can build strong partnerships with stakeholders throughout the research process. This blog covers five often-overlooked lessons from the report that are crucial to build effective partnerships with stakeholders.
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Five Questions To Ask Yourself To Get The Most Out Of Your Customer Interviews
Interviewing is a key method for gathering rich qualitative data in customer research. To get the most out of your customer interviews and produce data that drives decision-making, ask yourself these five questions.
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Reflections On Qualtrics X4: AI-Powered Research Is Promising If We Stick To The Research Basics
Qualtrics introduced its AI-powered Strategy & Research suite at its summit, X4, and launched its “Strategic UX” product — officially entering the experience research space. The new product supports various UX research methods like video feedback, unmoderated usability testing, card sorting, and tree testing, and it leverages AI to generate insights and recommended actions. Adding […]
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Rethink Your Research Practices To Create Inclusive Experiences
More than 1 billion people worldwide have disabilities and are underserved by today’s digital products. Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) reminds us of this and aims to get everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access and inclusion.
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Digital CX And Design Trends Worth Watching In 2024
Read on to explore Forrester’s take on the top digital CX and design trends to watch for in 2024.
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Retailers: It’s Not Too Late To Improve Your UX This Holiday Season
Follow our advice to find and fix problems and create better experiences for your customers.
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How Poor UX Affected My Choice of Insurance Provider
Learn how poor UX directly affected this analyst’s choice of insurance provider — and how to avoid the same mistakes.
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Conduct Better Research With Inclusive Screener Questions
By practicing inclusive design, businesses can increase revenue, decrease costs, improve resilience, and build trust with customers and employees. But to do this successfully, companies need to incorporate inclusive design principles when creating experiences.
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Design For Empathy To Build Deeper Connections With Your Customers
Empathizing with customers is almost always the first step in design frameworks. Learn how to take the next step and embed empathy into your entire design process.
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Designers Are Your Anchor In An Uncertain Economy
As we head into another year of economic uncertainty, panic and fear seem to be gripping many organizations. However, given the shifts in design awareness and transitions over the last decade from “what it looks like” to “how it works,” we predict that designers and the experience design community will be more important than ever.
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Adopt Inclusive Design Practices That Put Users First This Holiday Season
Incorporate inclusive design this holiday season by prioritizing digital accessibility, using inclusive language, and showing that you care.
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Design Do’s And Don’ts For Retailers This Holiday Season
Retailers can improve their websites and boost customer experience this holiday season by applying these tips.
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Five Findings From Forrester’s Digital Experience Review™ Of Retail Mobile Sites
More than half of US online adults use smartphones to research and purchase products and services, making retail mobile websites an integral part of the shopping journey. In our newly published report, The Forrester Digital Experience Review™: US Retail Mobile Sites, Q4 2022, we reviewed the mobile websites of 10 retailers — Best Buy, Kohl’s, […]
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Why You Must Assess Experiences For Inclusion — And How
You want to create inclusive experiences for your customers. You have a diverse and inclusive design team and practice inclusive design. But once you create the experiences you wanted, how do you know if you succeeded in making them truly inclusive?
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022: What’s Changed In Our Four Years Covering This Space
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day this year, learn what’s changed in digital accessibility over the past four years. Read more.
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Design Leaders Reveal How To Build Inclusive And Diverse Design Teams — And Why That Matters
Does your organization want to create inclusive experiences for your customers? Are you following an inclusive design process? If the answer to both questions is “yes,” great! But if you’re like most companies we speak with, you’re missing an essential component for creating inclusive experiences: an inclusive and diverse design team. Having such a team […]
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Leave No One Behind This Holiday Season: Use Inclusive Language
Is your site ready to welcome all customers this holiday season? Follow these best practices to apply inclusive language in your customer experience.
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Words Matter: Inclusive Experiences Start With Inclusive Language
Are you creating inclusive experiences for your customers? Many companies aren’t. For example, here’s a sampling of what we heard when we evaluated typical approaches to collecting personal information from consumers: “There is no open box to identify yourself. Ticking ‘other’ is alienating; therefore, if I didn’t identify as male or female, I wouldn’t feel […]