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• 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 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 Five Ways To Ensure Deep Collaboration Between Marketing And Customer Experience

  Employ Them All To Ensure Consistently On-Brand Interactions That Drive Customer Loyalty

  December 14, 2020 | Rick Parrish

  Marketers and CX professionals are out of touch with today's business realities. While companies pursue business models that scramble traditional customer lifecycles, marketing and CX functions...

• 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 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 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 The Dark Pattern Trap: How To Prevent Decisions That Help Short-Term KPIs But Hurt Loyalty

  February 26, 2020 | Andrew Hogan

  Many companies drive growth by manipulating customers — breaking no laws but breaking trust. While these design decisions can boost revenues in the short term, they frustrate customers, demoralize...

• 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 The Forrester Government Wave™: US Federal Government Websites, Q1 2020

  Federal Websites Offer Similarly Strong Experiences And Have Room For Improvement

  February 18, 2020 | Rick Parrish, Gina Bhawalkar

  Websites are the centerpiece of the US federal customer experience (CX). To gauge how well they serve customers, we evaluated seven of the most-visited sites. This report reveals how well they...

• 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 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 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 Deep Design: Designing Well Combines Art And Science

  A Design Revolution Series Report

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

  Many companies treat design as if it were only about look and feel and see it as a discipline suited primarily to people with artistic inclinations — a risky mistake. This report for experience...

• 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...

• Report Every Business Should Master Customer Success Management To Boost Customer Loyalty

  Customer Success Management Ensures Customers Get Value

  October 17, 2019 | TJ Keitt

  Because customer success management (CSM) was first developed at B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, many customer experience (CX) pros believe it only applies to a subset of businesses....

• Report A Good Customer Experience Requires Workers To Be Digitally Enabled

  The Tools Workers Use To Serve Customers Must Be Factored Into Experience Design

  October 3, 2019 | TJ Keitt

  Business leaders often overlook a critical component of good customer experience (CX): properly enabled employees. As a result, businesses haphazardly deploy technology to their workforces with...

• Report Case Study: One Medical Bridges The Gap Between Digital And Physical Patient Experiences

  July 16, 2019 | Arielle Trzcinski, Annalise Clayton

  Evolving customer expectations in healthcare are forcing providers to rethink their traditional care models and redesign patient experiences. One Medical differentiates itself by offering care that...

• 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...

• Report Now Tech: Digital Experience Agencies, Q2 2019

  Forrester's Overview Of 42 Digital Experience Agencies

  May 14, 2019 | Ted Schadler

  Digital experience agencies are essential partners for building differentiated customer, marketing, commerce, and product experiences. But to find the best partner for your project or program, you...