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Today’s Leaders Must Heed AI Advice For Future Disruptors
Startup founders, investors, technologists, and operators are all working frantically to get an early jump onto the AI train. Find out why and get more of the key takeaways from the recent Startup Boston Week event.
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Adaptive Mobile Banking: Forrester’s 2025 European Insights
Discover how European banks are turning mobile apps into smart, conversational experiences. Forrester’s 2025 review reveals key trends and leaders.
Predictions 2026: Your Planning Starts Here
2026 will demand proof, not promises. Explore Forrester’s Predictions resources — guides, webinars, and blogs — to plan smarter, lead with trust, and stay ahead of disruption.
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Introducing The Experience Research Platforms Landscape, Q3 2025
Experience research platforms help companies discover and define opportunities, test concepts and prototypes, and evaluate user and customer experiences.
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Is The US Government Getting Serious About Design Again? Not Really.
Is President Trump’s America By Design executive order a positive step for design? With a lack of focus on accessibility and substance, no.
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The State Of Design: Progress And Persistent Challenges
When investigating the evolving scope and practices of design, there are encouraging signs of progress. At the same time, persistent challenges still hinder design teams’ effectiveness.
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Three Key Findings From The Forrester Wave™: Employee Experience Management Platforms, Q2 2025
What makes the best employee experience management platforms stand out? Find in this preview of our new Wave report on EX management platforms.
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Figma Config 2025: In An AI World, Design Matters More Than Ever
New Figma products embrace AI, but Figma Sites fails to adhere to accessibility standards.
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How Emerging Tech Will Transform Digital Banking Experiences Over The Next Decade
Over the next decade, banks, fintechs, and big tech firms will use a combination of maturing and emerging technologies to introduce innovative interfaces, making digital experiences more intuitive and human-centered. These technologies will amplify consumer understanding, enhance automation, and accelerate the orchestration and delivery of digital banking experiences. As a result, digital banking experiences are evolving to become more assistive, anticipatory, and agentic, empowering consumers in unprecedented ways.
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Guide Your Digital Experience Strategy With Forrester’s Digital Connections Tracker And Moments Map
We often hear comments and questions from customer experience and digital business leaders such as, “We designed and built this product, but not many people use it — and we don’t know why” or “We have a chatbot, but customers are not using it, so how can we drive engagement?”
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The Future Of Digital Experiences: A Human-Centered, Empowering Journey
Emerging technologies are transforming digital experiences, which are evolving to become more human-centered, assistive, anticipatory, and agentic.
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Qualtrics X4 Highlights: AI-Powered Research Is Expanding
What do AI-powered advancements such as Experience Agents and Qualtrics Edge mean for experience research today and in the future? Here are three takeaways from Qualtrics X4.
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Design GenAI-Powered Experiences Responsibly
Design leaders should answer 12 questions to ensure that their teams are using generative AI responsibly.
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Accessibility Is Still Vital For Businesses
Accessibility is still vital for businesses despite recent federal actions.
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2025: The Digital Banking Landscape Is Poised For Another Transformative Year
Leading banks are leveraging mature and emerging technologies, customer insights, and data to enhance customer experience, increase customer engagement, and drive business growth.
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Bring The Voice Of People With Disabilities Into Your VoC Program
Most organizations lack one of the most critical elements of an accessibility program: direct feedback from people with disabilities. If you’re leading accessibility work, learn the benefits of collaborating with with your organization’s voice-of-the-customer (VoC) team.
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Retailers: Boost User Confidence This Holiday Season
This holiday season, increase your customers’ confidence in your digital experiences with four best practices.
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Experience Research And Design Leaders: Use Forrester’s New Model To Assess Your Organization’s Maturity
In the realm of experience research and design, achieving organizational maturity is an ongoing process of evolution and refinement. Leaders must transcend reactive, ad hoc management of their teams to embrace a systematic, data-informed approach that emphasizes responsible, strategic scale. Learn how seasoned leaders manage their organizations through the lenses of five pillars: purpose, people, […]
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Enhance User Confidence In Digital Experiences To Build Trust
Customers’ task completion is a measure of success for many companies, but to create a good user experience, it is just the bare minimum. There is more to consider for creating good, fulfilling experiences. Learn key practices to enhance user trust and confidence in digital experiences.
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Prioritize Accessibility In Procurement For Better CX And EX
My new report dives into why making accessibility a component of vendor selection is good for business and how to do it.
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What Does Good Research Look Like? Three Hallmarks Of Successful Customer Research
Having conversations with clients and learning from their experiences often yields new perspectives on familiar topics. We know that research must have a clear objective, be actionable, and be aligned with business goals, but is there more to consider? What does “good” research look like?
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