Happy Customers Lead To Happy Shareholders
SXSW voting has now closed. Huge thanks to everyone who voted for our session. *** It’s still seven months away, but I’m already getting excited for SXSW 2016. As you might know, I have a passion for customer journey mapping—and I want to share it in Austin! The team here at Kerry Bodine & Co. (Read More...)
What’s the value of a smartwatch? What do consumers expect from these multitasking wearable devices? And how can brands take advantage of this tiny addition to the device ecosystem? To uncover the answers to these questions, Kerry Bodine & Co. partnered with our friends at the user experience research and testing firm AnswerLab. We’re thrilled (Read More...)
We think a lot about brand and how it can be expressed, both visually and experientially. So you can imagine that we’re kind of obsessed about the development of our new brand identity for Kerry Bodine & Co. We’ve had the joy of working with Mel Lim Design to evolve the visual elements of our (Read More...)
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I’m thrilled to announce that I have a new partner in crime: Amelia Sizemore. Amelia and I worked together for several years on the customer experience team at Forrester Research, where we became close friends and terrific collaborators on both research and consulting projects. Amelia will be working with me to develop several new service (Read More...)
When we moved back to San Francisco in 02009, my husband and I joined an organization called The Long Now Foundation. About once a month, we attend Long Now lectures to learn about topics like the world’s oldest living organisms; the coevolution of light, life, and color on earth; how to find dangerous asteroids; and (Read More...)
I’m thrilled to announce an exciting project with my partners at Doberman! We’re always looking for new ideas to inspire our work. So we recently reached out to some of our favorite customer experience authors, designers, and industry leaders to find out what they were thinking about at the beginning of 2015. The result is (Read More...)
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Organizers for the annual SXSW interactive, film, and music festivals recently posted their 2015 programming lineup — and I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be presenting with my friend and colleague, Lisa Lindström, CEO of the experience design firm Doberman. Our session, How Kids Changed the Way We Design for Adults, will showcase the lessons that Doberman (Read More...)
I go to a lot of conferences. A lot. And frankly, I’m sick and tired of all the bad nametag design that I see — even, or I should say especially, at DESIGN conferences. Here the major problems: Tiny type. Type sizes that are easy to read on a screen or on a printout that (Read More...)
I’ve submitted two really fun sessions for SXSW 2015. The first, It’s Time To Design Better Smartwatch Interfaces, will share the results of a wearables research study that I’m collaborating on with the talented folks at AnswerLab. The second, How Kids Changed The Way We Design For Adults, is based on the amazing design work (Read More...)
I’m not sure if it’s my Swedish heritage, my penchant for Scandinavian design, or my love of long summer days — but as I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve decided to partner with two fantastic Swedish organizations: Doberman and Hyper Island. I thought I’d introduce them to those of you who haven’t yet had (Read More...)
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