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• Report Agile And Design Teams: Better Together

  Improve CX And EX With Great Collaboration Between Designers And Developers

  January 21, 2021 | Karine Cardona-Smits

  Companies are adopting agile frameworks and adding designers to their delivery teams to improve digital experience development efforts. But these two constituencies don't rely on the same workflow,...

• Report Why And How To Master Experience Design

  Executive Overview: The User Experience Playbook

  January 21, 2021 | David Truog

  As customers gravitate to digital more than ever, companies are prioritizing user experience (UX). Why this response? Because experience quality can make or break a business, and the range from bad...

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  Playbook The User Experience Playbook For 2021

  Why And How To Master Experience Design

  As customers gravitate to digital more than ever, companies are prioritizing user experience (UX). Why this response? Because experience quality can make or break a business, and the range from bad...

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• Report Gauge Your B2B E-Commerce Digital Maturity

  Assessment: The B2B E-Commerce Playbook

  January 8, 2021 | Joe Cicman

  As B2B C-suites increasingly demand that their companies accelerate their digital transformation, digital business professionals face more pressure to show progress and benchmark their maturity....

• Report How To Scale Your Design Organization

  Roadmap: The User Experience Playbook

  January 7, 2021 | Gina Bhawalkar

  The surge in demand for experience design (XD) requires that you answer a hard question as a design leader: How can your XD organization scale up? This report explains how, based on best practices...

• 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...

• Forum Summit Asia Pacific

  The must-attend event for B2B & B2C marketing and CX leaders

  September 1, 2020 | Live Virtual Experience | Frederic Giron

  The combined power of Forrester and SiriusDecisions has unleashed a new energy into the products and services available to both the B2B and B2C community. By harnessing this energy, we are bringing...

• Report Design For Confidence

  In Uncertain Times, Your Customers Want Certainty More Than Ever

  August 10, 2020 | Andrew Hogan, Senem Guler Biyikli

  Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, customers are battling uncertainty from all corners, needing confidence more than ever. Many companies strive for experiences that are seamless, easy, or beautiful,...

• Report The ROI Of Design Thinking: Part 2, How To Calculate

  Find Your Organization's ROI Using Forrester's Total Economic Impact Methodology

  July 15, 2020 | Benjamin Brown, Sam Karpinski

  In part 1 of this two-part series on the ROI of design thinking, Forrester found that three-quarters of projects can return double their investment (or more) in design thinking — with a median...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Digital Product Development Services, Q2 2020

  The 12 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 25, 2020 | Nigel Fenwick

  In our 29-criterion evaluation of digital product development services providers, we identified the 12 most significant ones — Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bresslergroup, Cognizant, EPAM, frog,...

• Report Measuring Design's Impact: Establish, Extend, And Elevate Your Approach

  A Design Impact Series Report

  June 24, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Adopting design measurement best practices helps experience design (XD) teams achieve benefits ranging from getting UX improvements prioritized to earning the opportunity to influence strategic...

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  Webinar The Business Impact Of Design: Best Practices For Measuring It

  June 24, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Measuring and communicating the value of an experience design (XD) practice yields many benefits, from getting UX improvements prioritized to elevating the impact and reach of the XD team. But most...

• 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...

• Report The Business Impact Of Design: Five Best Practices For Measuring It

  Business Case: The User Experience Playbook

  May 14, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Experience design (XD) professionals struggle to measure and communicate the impact of their work. And that's a missed opportunity for them, because by mastering design measurement, they can reap...

• Forum CX Sydney

  The Time Is Now: Lead With Experience

  April 30, 2020 | Virtual Event | Michael Barnes

  CX and marketing exist to win, serve, and retain customers. But silos and miscommunication keep this power duo from reaching their full potential. For this reason, we’ve made collaboration...

• Report Get Design Thinking Right: The Obstacles You'll Face And Six Tactics To Overcome Them

  April 8, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar, Sam Karpinski

  Despite the proven success of design thinking done right, many executives are reluctant to invest in it. To find out why, we surveyed and interviewed design thinking practitioners and found that...

• Report Get Accessibility Right: Recruit People With Disabilities Into The Design Process

  March 6, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Companies faced over 2,200 lawsuits in 2019 for failing to make their digital properties accessible, so it's no wonder firms are prioritizing accessibility. But it's about more than legal risk —...

• Report Forrester's Top Customer Experience Research Findings Of 2019

  February 21, 2020 | Rick Parrish, Gina Bhawalkar, Angelina Gennis

  Forrester's customer experience (CX) research team published more than 100 reports in 2019. In this review, we pull our most important CX findings — across a range of topics — out of those reports...

• Report Now Tech: Digital Product Development Services, Q1 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 19 Digital Product Development Service Providers

  February 11, 2020 | Nigel Fenwick

  You can use digital product development services to develop products that create new sources of customer value, boost revenue and profitability, and deliver differentiated competitive advantage....

• Report Forrester Infographic: The ROI Of Design Thinking

  Costs, Benefits, And Where They Come From

  November 20, 2019 | Benjamin Brown, Ryan Hart

  As practitioners struggle to quantify and articulate the business impact of design thinking, organizations are challenged with scaling and funding design thinking in a meaningful way. The purpose...

• Report Who Should Design: Blend Democratization, Expertise, And Representativeness

  A Design Revolution Series Report

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

  Some companies believe design success is a matter of training employees in design thinking. Others entrust designing only to professional designers. Both approaches are wrong. Firms need both...

• Report Tips For Scaling Your Design Thinking Practice

  July 30, 2019 | Ryan Hart

  Design thinking practitioners still struggle to garner and maintain support for their methodology. This report offers proven methods for overcoming common obstacles that customer experience (CX)...

• Report The ROI Of Design Thinking: Part 1, Overview

  Design Thinking Delivers Real Business Value

  May 16, 2019 | Ryan Hart, Benjamin Brown

  Despite the growing acceptance and practice of design thinking across nearly every industry, practitioners struggle to quantify and articulate its benefits. As a result, companies are challenged...

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  Webinar Modernize Your Design Organization For Scale And Inclusion

  April 29, 2019 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Establishing an internal experience design team is a key ingredient for creating great customer experiences, but many firms struggle to evolve their experience design organizations to 1) meet...

• Report The Inclusive Design Imperative: Win And Retain More Customers

  Modernize Your Design Practice To Reach More Of Your Target Market

  April 23, 2019 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Experience design (XD) leaders can help their firms win and retain customers, break into new markets, and get employees more engaged, by prioritizing inclusion. To do this, you need to shift your...