User Journeys are Taking Off: “Plane” Thoughts on Personalization’s Future
For most people, spontaneity isn’t a big motivator to purchase something. Sure, there are impulse buys here and there (there’s a reason why gum and…
Customer Journey Mapping: Growth and Retention Strategy
You can no longer run a single ad creative, message concept, and landing page across all channels. Understanding how customers interact with your…
Sometimes a Summit Can Mark the Start of a Journey
Today, Fatima and I are in Ann Arbor, MI attending the Midwest Drupal Summit -- a three-day event at the University of Michigan. It's an event that…
Accessibility is a Journey - Long-Term Strategies to Keep You on the Right Path
The Jan. 1, 2021 deadline for AODA website compliance is fast approaching. Some may see it as an end to a 16-year effort; others appear to be treating…
Our EOS Journey To Date: 5 Things To Know
Last week, the management team participated in their last EOS® planning session, thus ending our two year engagement with implementer, Preston True…
User Experience and Mass Transit Websites: Planning a Better Experience
So, how do you know if your transit site is any good? In the first part of our series we talked about the importance of open source - how open data…
How Your Users (and Google) Are Searching for a Positive User Experience
I’m of a certain vintage, so I remember the ol’ “ you got your chocolate in my peanut butter” commercial. I was reminded of this the other day when I…
Design For Your Users - Not Yourself!
Who is your target audience? What do you want your target audience to do? It’s unfortunate that many web designers don’t consider these two extremely…
How to satisfy users and internal stakeholders
One of the biggest challenges we face in projects is balancing the needs of the users with those of internal stakeholders. In an ideal world, we’d…
Putting the Focus on Your End User
We have a simple adage when it comes to understanding customer needs, desires, and challenges – if you want to know what they want, just ask. Yet too…