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A New Dawn For VMware EUC And Carbon Black, But Not Without Risk

Andrew Hewitt 2 hours ago
Broadcom Will Divest VMware’s EUC And Carbon Black Businesses In the latest installment of the Broadcom-VMware acquisition saga, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan announced on Broadcom’s Q4 2023 earnings call last night that the semiconductor giant will be divesting two VMware business units: End-User Computing (EUC) and Carbon Black. The announcement comes just 11 days after […]
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How Poor UX Affected My Choice of Insurance Provider

Senem Guler Biyikli November 27, 2023
Learn how poor UX directly affected this analyst’s choice of insurance provider — and how to avoid the same mistakes.

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VMware Customers: Brace For Impact

Tracy Woo November 22, 2023
With the VMware-Broadcom deal set for closing, what should you know? Learn five key things VMware customers can expect in the coming years.
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People Avoid Chatbots — Here’s How Your Company Can Make Its Bot Better

David Truog November 14, 2023
Creating an effective chatbot is hard. To get it right, you need to master conversation design, a new discipline for creating experiences that are based on conversational AI, and you need to know where and when to use new technologies like generative AI.
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Adobe’s GenAI Acceleration Bodes Well For Your Company’s Creativity

David Truog October 18, 2023
Most genAI discussions focus on what’s technically possible, not the human, societal, and legal dimensions, but Adobe has become a leader in recognizing and addressing those, which is essential to readying genAI for business. Last week, the company accelerated its lead, with significant roll-outs and announcements at its annual Adobe MAX event for design professionals. I share my thoughts in this new blog post.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2023

Gina Bhawalkar October 18, 2023
I’ve been prepping for a detailed evaluation of this technology market for some time, and I’m excited to announce that The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2023, is now live!
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Do You Understand GenAI? You Need To, Especially If You’re A CX Leader

David Truog October 3, 2023
Do you understand generative AI? Forrester’s data shows that 54% of AI decision-makers believe their organization’s executive team is “very familiar” with it — but we’ve observed widespread misunderstandings among execs of what it is, how it works behind the curtain, and what it can do. So last week we published a new, FAQ-style report […]

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A Few North American Mobile Banking Apps Lead, But None Stand Out

Peter Wannemacher October 3, 2023
Mobile banking matters more than ever in the US and Canada. Online banking usage is trending down as mobile banking usage and engagement continue to rise. In mobile banking channels, customers demand a widening set of features and services — and these mobile experiences have a major impact on brand perceptions and preferences. So what […]
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Spark An Innovation Culture With Design Thinking

Learn how CX leaders can use design thinking to create a culture of innovation and differentiate on superior CX action that anticipates and delivers on customers’ needs.
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Small Business Remains A Big Opportunity For Banks

Peter Wannemacher September 28, 2023
Despite some of the market upheaval caused by inflation and other issues, SMBs remain a good opportunity for banks. Find out why.
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Planning Guides 2024: Customer Experience

Explore 2024 insights for investing in CX strategy to drive action, value, and revenue.
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Generative AI Can Help Design Now — And It’s Just The Beginning

David Truog July 10, 2023
Generative AI will transform design — and not merely by creating images, which are just the visible tip of the design iceberg, but by assisting with designing products and interactions, improving user research, and more.

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Introducing The Digital Accessibility Platforms Landscape, Q2 2023

Gina Bhawalkar June 29, 2023
I aim to help clients understand the technologies available to help them scale and report on the progress of their accessibility programs, starting with our just published Forrester Landscape on the Digital Accessibility Platforms market.
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Figma’s Embrace Of Developers And AI Expands And Evolves Design

David Truog June 26, 2023
After Figma’s announcements last week at Config 2023, bridging design and development the right way and stepping smartly into AI-assisted digital product creation, we predict that the company will add modes for other roles, too, in addition to designers and developers, leading to a more inclusive and collaborative understanding of design.
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023: Bright Spots And Opportunities In A Year Of Accessibility Research

Gina Bhawalkar May 18, 2023
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day focused on digital accessibility and inclusion. Why do we need a day dedicated to this? 
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Design Responsibly To Earn Trust

Gina Bhawalkar May 16, 2023
What does it mean to practice human-centered design? The answer to that question is evolving. If you’ve read my research, you know it’s critical for businesses to embed accessibility and inclusive design practices into how they design and develop experiences. Doing so helps increase revenue, reduce costs, increase resilience, and build trust with customers and […]
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Supercharge Customer-Needs Discovery To Drive Customer-Obsessed Growth

Sam Somashekar April 28, 2023
Now more than ever, product managers must deeply understand their customers. With digital transformation efforts rampant, competitors coming online faster, and customer experience expectations rising, the standard practice of customer-needs discovery can’t keep up with this fast pace of change. In addition, customer demands are evolving rapidly — if you blink, you may miss them […]

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The Humanlike Future Of Interactions With Machines

David Truog April 27, 2023
In a major, accelerating trend, interactions between people and machines are becoming more like those between people.
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Companies Have Agnosia About Experiences

Carlos Casanova March 23, 2023
We found that agnosia quite nicely describes what is happening with companies’ efforts around experience. Their inability to identify you as the same individual after having repeatedly interacted with them as a customer and user and employee over a period of time, might cause you to question your sanity when interacting with them. 
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Generative AI Gets An Upgrade To Business Class With Adobe Firefly

David Truog March 21, 2023
Adobe’s new Firefly service is a leap forward in comparison with other generative AI services for images — it’s a Napster-to-Apple inflection point that bodes well for the future of creativity.
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