8 Key Lessons in Customer Experience from Leading Companies

8 Key Lessons in Customer Experience from Leading Companies

We recently spoke with twelve leading customer-focused organizations from around the world to uncover best practices and strategies for creating a successful customer experience. Our conversations uncovered eight key lessons.

Customer Experience Management is Not Software

Most people and many businesses still do not fully grasp the breadth of Customer Experience. And the increasing number of companies offering software that claims to manage the customer experience makes grasping its holistic nature yet more difficult.

Extending the Customer Experience Lifecycle

The customer experience lifecycle starts far before and continues long after the relation covered in the classic customer lifecycle model.

The Holiday Travel Experience

The Holiday Travel Experience

This article takes the holiday travel industry as an example to illustrate the breadth of the customer experience lifecycle.

Service Innovation Case Study: Seamless Account Opening

Example of one of the account opening logistics processes; new customers.

Service innovation case study of the design of an online savings account shows that creating an optimal customer experience, even for an online product, requires looking at more than a single customer touch-point but at the overall product and service design and delivery.

Do the Test: Selective Attention and Advertising

Do the Test: Selective Attention and Advertising

People have limited working visual memory and filter out a lot of things in their every day lives. So how can advertisers have our interest in a world overloaded with messages competing for our attention?

Are Designers Reinventing Research?

Are Designers Reinventing Research?

Recently we heard designers talk about new research methods that gather more insights for design than traditional marketing research. This article discusses whether methods used in design research really are new.

Web Information Architecture and the Myth of the Few Clicks

The few clicks principle is one of the most misunderstood and oversimplified concepts in Web usability today. Good information design is not about how many clicks it takes to reach the information desired or to complete a specified task as much as how intuitive it is to do so.