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Does your organization have a clear vision or set of guiding principles? We explore why your company might need North Star Principles to make strategic product/service decisions and to ensure you’re offering the best customer experiences.
How can SaaS companies improve their free trial experience and convert customers? We explore how customer journey mapping and UX research can help SaaS leaders to optimize their free trial periods and boost conversion rates in a competitive digital marketplace.
How effective are user surveys? Are they really adequate to get at customers’ deeper needs and pain paints? We explore why companies should be applying mixed UX research methods alongside user surveys in order to uncover richer insights and make stronger product/service decisions.
How can an organization get started with design thinking? In Part Two of this series, we outline the design thinking process and actionable ways to integrate this mindset into your service, product, and business development.
What is design thinking? Why is this term so popular? In part one of this series, we offer concrete definitions and explore further why design thinking is SO valuable for any business seeking to solve complex problems and innovate.
We explore why your tech/SaaS company should hire an external firm to conduct UX and human-centered design research with your customers, and help your busy UX team develop its design strategy.
We highlight and explore important steps you can take to integrate UX design and research into your organization to improve business processes, workflows, and customer experience (CX), elements that often get overlooked in rapid digital transformation.
We explore design-thinking and human-centered tools and techniques to ensure that your carefully researched customer journey maps are highly actionable, and that they are communicated across your organization to affect change.
Building a customer journey map will enable your company to better understand how customers use your products or services. We outline how to collect research insights and build an effective and highly useful journey map for your organization.
Economic downturns can spell out hard times for business. But there are many actions you can take to protect and optimize your company/team to ensure your customers remain happy. In this blog post, we highlight the top UX and CX strategies companies can immediately take action on.
In this post, we offer concrete human-centered strategies for teams and businesses undergoing swift digital transformation. We’ll explore how to overcome obstacles in product and service design and delivery with user research and design thinking methods.
Brainstorming sessions are great design and business tools for idea generation–and they can also be fun! In this blog post, we’ve assembled top strategies and tips to help you plan and execute an effective and productive brainstorming session.
Dive into our very own Sara Fortier’s book — a practical guide to design research, packed with real stories, tools, and strategies to turn data and insights into meaningful business impact.
Join us for hands-on workshops, thought-provoking talks, and networking events that strengthen our UX community and push human-centered design forward.
Does your organization have a clear vision or set of guiding principles? We explore why your company might need North Star Principles to make strategic product/service decisions and to ensure you’re offering the best customer experiences.
Does your organization have a clear vision or set of guiding principles? We explore why your company might need North Star Principles to make strategic product/service decisions and to ensure you’re offering the best customer experiences.
Does your organization have a clear vision or set of guiding principles? We explore why your company might need North Star Principles to make strategic product/service decisions and to ensure you’re offering the best customer experiences.