Customer Experience… what is it? May 5, 2008

Customer Experience… the term gets thrown around quite a bit of late… but what does it mean and how does it translate into a discipline & something that anyone can relate to. So what is customer experience?

Customer experience is the ‘journey’ of the customer through various interactions with an organization and their perceptions therein.

In order to develop the perfect customer experience, the organization would have to
. Understand the customer journey
. Constantly design the right offers for the right customers
. Exceed customer expectations in all interactions
. Aim at pleasing customers by revamping the customer experience regularly

It’s important to note however that to develop a good customer experience, one must be aware of all the experiences on offer to the customer.

13 steps to effective user/stakeholder interviews February 11, 2008

I had the good fortune to conduct user and stakeholder interviews with regard to an application that the client had developed 6 months ago. The application was up and running and this project was launched in order to look at streamlining the application and making it more intelligent and easy to use.

This is where I came in… My job was to personally fix interviews with the interviewees. The only problem was that the interviewees belonged to several different countries across the world. I must accept however that I have never a more satisfying experience where work was concerned. It was actually enlightening to speak to so many of these people around the globe.

So here’s how an interview is conducted.

10 User Centered Design blogs you ought to read December 6, 2007

Just thought I’d share my favorite UCD blogs with you. These are sites I read to keep in touch with the research on usability. They also make for very interesting reading.

Experience Dynamics: Frank spiller’s blog is something that every User experience professional should read. Frank has the happy knack to hitting the nail on the head with every post. Very practical info out there.

Boxes and Arrows:  In the words of David Moore, Boxes and Arrows is an “Intelligent peer-written journal on information architecture and user-centered design. Lots of practical information as well as conceptual back-up”.

Seven87: With a unique outlook on usability, marketing and customer experience, Charlie Nichols presents usability in a business environment.

Webword: John S. Rhodes operates the WebWord Blog, providing