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• Report Establish Your Experience Research Practice

  Beginner Level: Research Practices For CX Transformation

  January 21, 2021 | Kelly Price

  This report about experience research — one of the six competencies of customer experience (CX) — is for CX transformation leaders whose companies don't yet follow an effective and documented...

• Report Evolve Your Experience Research Practice

  Advanced Level: Research Practices For CX Transformation

  January 21, 2021 | Kelly Price

  This report about experience research — one of the six competencies of customer experience (CX) — is for experience research leaders who have scaled up their practice, so their companies: 1) follow...

• Report Scale Your Experience Research Practice

  Intermediate Level: Research Practices For CX Transformation

  January 21, 2021 | Kelly Price

  This report about experience research — one of the six competencies of customer experience (CX) — is for experience research leaders who have established a solid practice, so their companies...

• Report Ingredients Of Great Design: Conquer Six Myths

  Principles: The User Experience Playbook

  December 15, 2020 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Many companies striving to get better at designing experiences won't. Why? Because they fall for widespread myths about what design is, who should be involved in it, and how to do it well. For...

• Report The Design Revolution

  Vision: The User Experience Playbook

  December 11, 2020 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Companies are prioritizing design because of seismic shifts in the dynamics of value, experiences, and power that are making user experience (UX) matter more than ever. But many firms undermine...

• Report How To Evolve Your Mobile App

  Make Smart Investment Choices Based On Your Customer's Goals And Needs

  May 22, 2020 | Julie Ask, Andrew Hogan, Kelly Price

  When applied to mobile apps, the definition of great is a constantly moving target because both what technologies can do and what consumers expect of experiences are evolving quickly. Use this...

• Report Digital CX And Design Trends, 2020

  May 20, 2020 | Andrew Hogan, Gina Bhawalkar, Jennifer Wise

  Eight trends in 2020 are shaping how experience design (XD) professionals and their companies should improve their customers' experiences with digital touchpoints, from apps to websites to Alexa...

• Blog Conducting Customer Research Remotely: Tips, Tricks, And Resources

  March 31, 2020 | Kelly Price

  Conducting Research Remotely Has Benefits The shift to working remotely in response to the current pandemic means many organizations are having to rethink their approach to understanding customers....

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  Webinar Understanding Employees For Better EX

  December 11, 2019 | Angelina Gennis, Kelly Price

  Just as great customer experience starts with understanding customers, great employee experience (EX) begins with understanding employees. Yet, most organizations fail to conduct the research...

• Report Empirical Innovation: Prioritize Evidence Over Instinct To Innovate Successfully

  A Design Revolution Series Report

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Kelly Price, Gina Bhawalkar

  Many companies mistakenly believe that effective design is driven by instinct, not research, or that research is a "nice to have" that's too time-consuming. But instinctive design relies on...

• Report Why And How To Iterate: Deliver Value And Quality To Reveal And Meet User Needs

  A Design Revolution Series Report

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Iterating is key to designing well. And design often must mesh with Agile, in which iterating is also key. Why do design and Agile both use iteration? Because iterating produces insight into what...

• Report Research Overview: The Design Revolution

  A Customer Experience Guide To Advancing Your Design Maturity, Overcoming Myths About Design, And Staffing For Good Design

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  This document is a short overview of the "Design Revolution" series with links to the documents it contains. The series lays out for experience design (XD) professionals and their colleagues the...

• Blog CX SF 2019: Do You Understand Your Customers’ Reality?

  July 29, 2019 | Kelly Price

  Remember “the dress” — the photo that went viral a few years ago, reaching 840,000 views a minute? I mention it because Forrester defines customer experience (CX) as your customers’ perceptions of...

• Report High-Impact Research: The Ingredients For An Effective UX And Design Research Practice

  July 17, 2019 | Kelly Price

  To get beyond stagnating customer experience (CX) quality, companies need to modernize how they do customer research — using it to guide better tactical and strategic decisions across the firm. But...

• Blog Do Your Company’s Research Practices Lead To Better Decision Making?

  July 17, 2019 | Kelly Price

  “Understand your customers! Do research!” Anyone who has paid even a passing glance to the world of customer experience and user experience over the last decade has surely heard this mandate is one...

• Blog Three Things To Know About UserZoom’s Acquisition Of Validately

  June 25, 2019 | Kelly Price

  I spoke with UserZoom CEO Alfonso de la Nuez Monday about his firm’s announcement last Thursday that it has acquired Validately. Why? Because many companies ask for my help selecting a usability...

• Blog Design Leaders Are Maturing Beyond Craft And Methodology

  April 30, 2019 | Kelly Price

  In his 2019 Design in Tech report, design luminary John Maeda boldly proclaimed that “in reality, design is not that important,” stirring waves across the design community. After decades of...

• Report Digital CX Trends, 2019

  Digital CX And Human-Centered Experience Design Align — At Last

  April 22, 2019 | Andrew Hogan, Gina Bhawalkar, Kelly Price

  Digital CX is changing: As it encompasses more capabilities like voice, connected devices, and notifications, customer experience (CX) pros and their companies can no longer take a...

• Report The Hierarchy Of Moments: How To Deliver Your Brand Promise In Moments

  Watch This Video To Learn About Forrester's Hierarchy Of Moments Framework

  April 4, 2019 | Kelly Price

  Designing great customer experiences and building great digital experiences requires understanding the moments that matter to your customers — but achieving that understanding is easier said than...

• Report How To Increase Your Firm's Appetite For Customer Understanding

  Lay The Groundwork For A Modern Research Practice

  April 1, 2019 | Kelly Price

  Customer experience (CX) pros know that customer understanding is crucial for creating successful experiences but often lack the buy-in they need from their colleagues to do the research required....

• Blog Qualtrics X4 2019: What Do Sir Richard Branson, Barack Obama, And Oprah Winfrey Have To Say About Creating Better Experiences?

  March 13, 2019 | Kelly Price

  I was at Qualtrics’ X4 Summit in Salt Lake City last week. The two-day event featured a heavy-hitting mainstage lineup, including President Barack Obama, Sir Richard Branson, Ashton Kutcher, Adam...

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  Webinar Modernize Customer Research To Up-Level Your Customer Experiences

  March 6, 2019 | Kelly Price

  Research is a requisite for creating great customer experiences, but many firms struggle to effectively integrate meaningful insights into the way they make decisions. This webinar outlines...

• Report The Winning Way To Plan Customer Research

  Use Forrester's Customer Research Canvas To Drive The Why, What, How, And Who Of Your Research Efforts

  February 12, 2019 | Kelly Price, Gina Bhawalkar

  Although companies increasingly recognize that if they want to improve CX significantly, they can't skip customer research, Forrester consistently hears from CX pros who struggle to conduct the...