Senem Guler Biyikli

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Retailers: It’s Not Too Late To Improve Your UX This Holiday Season

Senem Guler Biyikli December 6, 2023
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

Senem Guler Biyikli November 27, 2023
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

Gina Bhawalkar July 26, 2023
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

Gina Bhawalkar January 23, 2023
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

Sheila Mahoutchian December 6, 2022
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

Senem Guler Biyikli November 22, 2022
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

Senem Guler Biyikli November 21, 2022
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

Nicole Murgia October 18, 2022
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

AJ Joplin September 19, 2022
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

Senem Guler Biyikli May 19, 2022
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

Senem Guler Biyikli March 28, 2022
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

Gina Bhawalkar November 11, 2021
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

Gina Bhawalkar September 13, 2021
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 […]