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Teamwork Lessons From Config 2024
Read on to learn how Figma is approaching rapid growth, organization, partnership, craftsmanship, and collaboration.
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My Takeaways From Config 2024: Impacts On Design Systems, Storytelling, And Accessibility
Gina Bhawalkar shares her take on Config 2024 and its implications for design systems and accessibility.
Shine A Spotlight On CX Value
The new CX leader superpower? Measurement. Download our e-book to learn what to measure to prove CX’s value and impact — so you can lead CX to success.
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Software Design Gets An AI Infusion From Figma, And It’s Worth Trying Now
With Adobe’s $20 billion proposed acquisition of Figma called off in response to regulatory scrutiny based on insufficient understanding of how software is made, a sense of expectant curiosity surrounded Figma’s 2024 installment of Config (its annual user conference), especially about its AI strategy. Why? Because although Figma has rocketed to leadership in software interaction […]
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Five Questions To Ask Yourself To Get The Most Out Of Your Customer Interviews
Interviewing is a key method for gathering rich qualitative data in customer research. To get the most out of your customer interviews and produce data that drives decision-making, ask yourself these five questions.
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Six Technologies Will Make Digital Experiences More Humanlike (And GenAI Is Just One Among Them)
The future of human-machine interaction will be drastically more humanlike in six ways — creative, conversational, perceptive, embodied, physical, and personified — as a result of six emerging technologies. But these technologies are still immature, and the road ahead is fraught with challenges.
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What You Can Learn From Open-Source Design Systems
Read on to learn three best practices from open-source design systems.
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A Match Made In Plastic? Capital One’s Quest To Acquire Discover
Capital One’s plan to acquire Discover will change the shape of the financial services landscape (though not the fundamental forces that drive growth and success — but more on that later). To help you understand the implications of the proposed merger, Forrester took a deep dive into our research and data (full report for clients […]
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Each week, the CX Cast brings you the latest news and cutting-edge tactics making waves in customer experience.
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024: The Business Case For Accessibility Grows Stronger
In 2023, we saw more firms commit to digital accessibility, with emerging regulations bringing a sense of urgency to the work. Here are a few of the highlights from the past year and advice to help firms mature their digital accessibility efforts in 2024.
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The European Accessibility Act Compliance Deadline Is Approaching — Are You Ready?
The European Accessibility Act deadline is approaching, are you ready? Read on to learn how best to prepare.
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A Rising Tide: Updates On NOAA’s CX Transformation
Learn how working with Forrester has helped NOAA achieve a five-year CX transformation in just two years.
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Human Centricity: The Future Of IT Experience Monitoring
IT organizations must evolve they way they monitor employee and customer experience technologies. Learn why in this blog post.
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Adobe And Figma Should Partner Now To Supercharge The Digital Experience Ecosystem
The scuttling of their own deal won’t be the end of the Adobe-Figma story: The next chapter must be about close partnering instead.
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A New Dawn For VMware EUC And Carbon Black, But Not Without Risk
Find out how Broadcom's plan to divest VMware’s EUC And Carbon Black businesses could impact customers and the market overall.
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How Poor UX Affected My Choice of Insurance Provider
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
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
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
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.
How To Scale Digital Accessibility And Expand CX’s Influence
Discover how to turn a business must-have into a CX leadership opportunity.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 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
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
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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