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Get Your Design System Right: Approach It Like A Product
A design system continually evolves — it’s not a project a design team can complete and move on from. In fact, a design system requires an ongoing time and resources investment just like a customer-facing digital product.
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Blick voraus: Was europäische Entscheider in 2021 erwarten dürfen
Widersprüche im Kaufverhalten, ordnungspolitische Umwälzungen und mehr grenzüberschreitende Remote-Arbeit werden 2021 prägen Bisher machen die „stürmischen 2020er Jahre“ ihrem Namen alle Ehre – wir erleben eine globale Pandemie und die rasant wachsenden Auswirkungen des Klimawandels. Und dabei ist das neue Jahrzehnt noch nicht einmal ein Jahr alt! Aber mit der Volatilität kommen auch Chancen. Um […]
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Predictions 2021 Hub
Explore our blog posts, videos, guides, and other resources to understand the dynamics that will shape 2021.
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Three Tips for Using Design Thinking in Product Management Activities
Product managers must integrate design thinking into their product commercialization and lifecycle process to foster a customer-focused approach for offerings. Otherwise they risk being too internally focused and out of touch with the market segments they serve. Sam Somashekar shares the top three tips to help integrate design thinking principles into product management activities to ensure commercial success of your products.
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Find Your Firm’s Path To Customer Obsession
Customer obsession means putting the customer at the center of your business leadership, strategy, and operations. Learn how to define and operationalize a successful customer obsession strategy on this episode of What It Means with VP, Principal Analyst Shar VanBoskirk.
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The New Normal For Customer Experience: Join Our Keynote At Summit Asia Pacific
The pandemic has introduced a tumultuous period that's shaping the future and forcing a shift in ways that business, technology, and consumer expectations develop from this point forward. We at Forrester have identified five key shifts that will take place over the next five or more years.
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Forrester Can Help You Craft Your Customer Obsession Strategy
In my research, I found that customer obsession was the good idea that everyone agreed with, but no one knows how to do. Let's change that. Read our new, complimentary eBook to get an actionable framework for a customer obsession strategy.
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Apple Takes An Inspiring Stand On UX, Privacy, And Diversity At WWDC 2020
Apple revealed major announcements for the new iOS 14 system during its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2020. What is coming to the iPhone demonstrates a deep understanding of our behavior and use of our devices in mobility. It also makes a clear statement on privacy and diversity principles. UX Is All About Use In Context […]
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Starting Research On Ambient Technologies And Experiences
New research at Forrester will look into how ambient technologies that extend into our physical context could impact customer and employee experiences.
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The Effect Of COVID-19 On Canadians’ Financial Well-Being
Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, our research showed that Canadian consumers were facing multiple financial challenges and were worried about their financial situation. To see how the pandemic was impacting consumer finances and behaviors, we surveyed 1,119 Canadian online adults in April 10–15, 2020 and found that Canadians: Are already feeling the impact of COVID-19 […]
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5G In Financial Services
5G will let financial services firms step up their offerings for customers. But it will also increase competition in the sector. Is your tech strategy up to the challenge?
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Conducting Customer Research Remotely: Tips, Tricks, And Resources
Resources and guidance for transitioning to remote research in response to COVID-19. Discover techniques, vendors, and best practices that can help you conduct customer research now.
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Customers Are Staying Home — So Prioritize Digital UX
With customers worldwide coping with the pandemic, companies need to recalibrate customer experience (CX) efforts, and with most people cooped up at home, it’s suddenly more important than ever to get digital experiences right.
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Micro UIs: Microservices Are Visual, Too
Stop Conflating Microservices With APIs Too often in client conversations, Forrester hears the terms “microservice” and “API” used interchangeably. To make your architecture and design patterns stronger, separate the two. Draw a hard line of distinction between them. Specifically: “Microservice” is a packaging and deployment concept. At its core, microservice strategy aims to create technical […]
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Strategic Design Is Finally Recognized In Agile Frameworks
Designers joining Agile teams often complain about feeling like misfits. The importance of good design is mentioned in Agile principles, but designers are nowhere in the picture. The only individuals that Agile principles mention are business people and developers. How do you fit in, then, when you are a user experience, customer experience, service, or […]
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Just How Much Do Design And Data Science Collaborate?
Findings from our recent survey show that there's room for improvement.
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The Customer In 2020 Searches For Meaning
Join us on a journey to the center of the customer’s hollow universe. Forrester Senior Analyst Anjali Lai and VP and Principal Analyst James McQuivey explore why customers will yearn for brands to provide something more meaningful than the rapid escalation of self-centered benefits.
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The Ambiguity-Laden March Toward People-Centric Design
We’ve gotten used to adapting to technology. But in the future, tech will adapt to us. On this episode, Hector Ouilhet, head of design for Google Search and Google Assistant, shares the latest in people-centric design.
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The Secret To Transformational CX Design: Your Org Chart
What does it take to design truly transformational, human-centric customer experiences? On this episode of What It Means, Bank of America’s Rachel Kobetz shares her insights.
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Empirical Innovation: Prioritize Evidence Over Instinct To Innovate Successfully
Many companies operate under the idea that "If you innovate it, they will come." Spoiler alert: They won't. Successful innovation relies on empirical research.
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