Best Practice Report

Best And Worst Of Email Interaction Design, 2007

Forrester Applies Its Email Interaction Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

Moira Dorsey
 and  five contributors
Apr 23, 2007

Summary

Forrester applied its Email Interaction Review methodology to the email experiences at 16 firms — four of the largest credit card issuers, consumer electronics retailers, PC manufacturers, and wireless providers. Of the nine companies that actually responded to our emails, none passed, but Circuit City received the highest overall score. Despite the many problems that we found with these email interactions, we also found a number of good practices like Wal-Mart's email headers, Dell's email reply process, and Gateway's placement of privacy policies. To improve email experiences, firms should follow a user-centric approach to designing email interactions.

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