Fogg’s Seven Strategies to Influence Behavior in Experience Design

According to Dr. BJ Fogg, founder of the Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford University and the Fogg Behavioral Model, persuasive technology uses seven strategies to influence behavior: Reduction – Simplify the task the user is trying to do. Tunneling – A step-by-step sequence of activities that guides 
the user through the behavior. Tailoring – Provide feedback … Read more

Create a Brilliant Product Roadmap

Full disclosure, I love Aha! Product Management road-mapping software and have introduced it to several companies. When I saw this post by Brian de Haaff, Aha! Founder and CEO, I had to share it. Here’s what Brian shares on how to create a brilliant product roadmap: Define your strategy. What is the market potential, and … Read more

Personas, Journey Maps, Service Blueprints, and Innovation

Personas Personas help you specify the context of use by identifying the people who will use your solution, what they will use it for, and under what conditions they will use it. They help you to create a point of view that is based on your target audiences’ needs and insights so you can see … Read more

How True Innovation Happens When Usability Informs Technology at Google

From think with Google, Mobile App Development: How to Create a Useful App: “Our user-centric thinking guided us even as we began developing our app, and taught us how true innovation happens when usability informs technology. This—along with a deep dive into the principles of mobile app design—helped us take the right steps to design and … Read more

The Narrowing Effect: Understanding Time Pressure in Customer Experiences

The Narrowing Effect is a result of not having enough time to make a decision. To manage the stress of time crunches, we focus on a main task and ignore or filter out all other things. This helps us make a decision quickly when we have to but may increase our risk of not making … Read more

Persona Walkthrough

The other day I was helping a good friend and colleague with a “persona walkthrough.” A persona walkthrough is when you “walkthrough” your experience assuming the role of the persona. In this case, we were walking through an online experience. We started with a persona named Sally. Sally is a “Soccer Mom” – she is … Read more

How Do You Design Great Solutions for People?

We can only design great solutions for people when we have a deep and detailed knowledge of their needs. Each new generation of solutions improves based on market and customer feedback. But how do you do this? What is the process? There is a hierarchical structure of activities, tasks, actions, and operation to better understand customers’ interactions … Read more

Tailor Customer Insights to Prioritize Actions

Just as we discussed how to chart satisfaction and value, you can do the same with tailoring your customer insights to prioritize actions. Somewhat like a SWOT analysis, this charts the most important strengths and weaknesses based on your insight data findings. Important weaknesses are where you need to focus ways to improve your customer … Read more

Word of Mouth Strategies and Tactics

Source: Modern Comments Customer Feedback Stats From Medipost’s Let’s Rethink How Advertising Works: “As far back as 1966 the phrase “word of mouth advertising” was coined in a Harvard Business Review article by Ernest Dichter, the father of motivational research (and the “focus group”). He exhorted the ad community to move from acting as ‘a salesman who … Read more

Recent Study Shows How Much That Device Usage Varies by Generation

MillwardBrown Digital conducted a digital survey via mobile or desktop devices that included 1018 US respondents ages 18 – 69 who own or have access to a smartphone or tablet. The survey, Getting Audiences Right: Marketing to the Right Generation on the Right Screen, was conducted October 2014 and found: DEVICE USAGE VARIES BY GENERATION … Read more

Six Steps to Building a Customer Journey Map

Danny Peters is Customer Experience consultant at Conexperience, specializing in Customer Journey Mapping and Customer Experience Management. He posted 6 Steps to Build a Customer Journey on LinkedIn Pulse. He breaks down CJM in six steps: Step 1 – Episodes: Episodes are groups of touchpoints in the customers’ journey. An episode is like a chapter … Read more

Cross-Channel Attributes and the Customers’ Journey

“Attribution helps brands track their marketing and media efforts more accurately and show how they impact the overall business.” Daniel Kehrer, VP Marketing at MarketShare, posted in Forbe’s Insights The Truth About Cross-Channel Attribution In Marketing. Cross-channel attribution helps us see a holistic view of our customers’ journey Graphic by Theresa Wilcox Attribution provides clear and … Read more