customer experience

We often think of user experience (UX) testing as an accompaniment to design work. While that is certainly true, UX design and testing should be approached holistically. There are three phases in which UX research should be conducted — exploratory, design, and validation.

Do you extract the maximum value from the treasure trove of consumer comments you have? We believe that the best method for maximizing the value of text is by empowering humans with tools that enable effective mining and building frameworks and constructs that continuously build upon past successes.

Since our original post on March 20 assessing survey response rates immediately after the COVID-19 travel ban, we've been closely following response rates and data impacts on several of our trackers, in both the utility and financial services spaces. Now, in Week 6 of the quarantine, we need to know if people have continued responding to survey invitations at the same rate.

Being able to connect, communicate, and listen to your customers during the next crisis isn’t just a blessing — it’s a strategic imperative. During a time of crisis — pandemic or otherwise — responsible companies have public relations teams that leap into action to implement a prepared crisis communication plan. Many of us have received these messages. We may have sent some out ourselves. I know I have, on both counts. 

Each customer touchpoint is now more impactful than ever before. Before COVID-19, you might go to the door, grab your pizza, tip the driver, and never think about them again. But now that extreme social distancing is the new norm, we see consumers putting more stock in these previously mundane interactions.

Not all companies can donate millions, but helping in little ways is important too. Consumers are keeping tabs on how companies are responding to the pandemic, but they are noticing more than just the grand gestures. Read on to find out how you can grow your brand and help the world during COVID-19 — without breaking the bank.

Despite the energy sector’s critical role of ensuring electric service during the COVID-19 pandemic and its unprecedented actions to suspend disconnections due to non-payment nationwide, the utility industry’s response has gone largely unnoticed and unacknowledged by consumers. This has left electric service providers in a unique position to convey messages of unity and support to consumers in order to gain confidence and trust.

Grocers are some of the only retailers continuing to operate on a near-normal schedule in these non-normal conditions.

It is a common refrain in the survey research industry: any change impacting large populations will have an impact on response rates and possibly change how people respond. During natural disasters such as hurricanes or typhoons, many halt research in the impacted areas.