Digital doors and windows
The more digital an organization becomes the more distant it becomes physically from its customers. By 2020 there will be a million less business-to-business sales people in the US, according…
Designing For Explicit Choice
If you’re a UX designer, you’ve probably designed a lot of forms and web (or app) pages in which the user needs to choose between options. And as a designer,…
Insight led by data not gut instinct
Over the years I’ve developed a survey technique that looks absolutely crazy and unworkable. Every time I present it to people their immediate gut instinct reaction is: “This won’t work!…
Your Guide to Online Research and Testing Tools
The success of every business depends on how the business will meet their customers’ needs. To do that, it is important to optimize your offer, the website, and your selling…
How to Respond to Typical UX Project Challenges
After nine years of building a robust UX consulting practice within a large software consulting firm, I sort of expect certain things. For one thing, I expect that the people…
The 7 Rules of Caring for Junior UX Designers
Effectively mentoring young designers is a rewarding and crucial step in mastering your own skills. From start-ups to big business to agencies, everyone has had their own unique pleasures and…
The challenge for writers of web content
The challenge for writers of web content is that we think that people want to read our content. They don’t. The Web is not a murder mystery. People don’t want…
If you love the customer your organization will hate you
Focusing on the needs of customers is a thankless job in most organizations. In fact, the customer champion is seen as annoying, irritating and a trouble maker. It is a…
The organization customer disconnect
The irony of this period of Big Data is that many organizations are becoming even more disconnected from their customers. Technology creates both insights and blindness when it comes to…
Functional Animation In UX Design
A good UX designer can easily explain the logic behind each decision in a design concept. This includes the information architecture, the hierarchy of page content, the flow and the…