Customer Experience + Design

The adoption of microservice‑based architectures has grown exponentially over the past decade, often driven more by industry trends than by a careful evaluation of system requirements. This phenomenon has generated unnecessarily complex implementations—like using a bazooka to kill an ant. Distributed architectures without solid foundations in domain capabilities, workloads, operational independence, or real scalability needs […]

At the Healthcare Interactive Conference (HCIC) last month, I got to talk to marketers who are very focused on results. They are also very focused on what will impact their marketing efforts and why. Every conversation came back to AI. In my previous HCIC takeaway, I wrote about how AI is not a strategy—it’s a […]

Reflecting on this year’s InsureTech Connect Conference 2025 in Las Vegas, one theme stood out above all others: the insurance industry has crossed a threshold from AI experimentation to AI expectation. With over 9,000 attendees and hundreds of sessions, the world’s largest insurance innovation gathering became a reflection of where the industry stands—and where it’s […]

Customer expectations are not just rising; they are skyrocketing. By 2026, the brands that create real customer loyalty won’t be the ones that send clever emails or spruce up their loyalty programs. They’ll be the ones who can almost read their customers’ minds, anticipating needs before customers have to ask. I think of it like […]

For years, the Drupal community has been engaged in a delicate balancing act. On one side, we have the “Structured Data Purists”—those who value Drupal for its rigid data modeling, fieldability, and API-first architecture. On the other side, we have the “Marketing Realists”—the content creators and site builders who look at tools like Squarespace, Wix, […]

Perficient is proud to be named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience Build Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US52973125, October 2025) and IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience Design Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US52973225, October 2025). These IDC MarketScapes assessed providers, offering a comprehensive framework including product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, […]

React 19 was released on 25 April 2024 and it is based out of React 18. This release introduces major improvements and removes some features to enhance developer experience and application performance. Migrating is a straightforward approach, but you need to watch for removed features. In this blog, I share my experience in migrating React […]

Salesforce Marketing Cloud + AI is revolutionizing marketing by combining advanced artificial intelligence with marketing automation to create hyper-personalized, data-driven campaigns that adapt in real time to customer behaviors and preferences. This fusion drives engagement, conversions, and revenue growth like never before. Key AI Features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud Agentforce: An autonomous AI agent that helps […]

Financial institutions are at a pivotal moment. As customer expectations evolve and AI reshapes digital engagement, leaders in marketing, CX, and IT must rethink how they deliver value. Adobe’s report, “State of Customer Experience in Financial Services in an AI-Driven World,” reveals that only 36% of the customer journey is currently personalized, despite 74% of […]

I think about the early ATMs now and then. No one knew the “right” way to use them. I imagine a customer in the 1970s standing there, card in hand, squinting at this unfamiliar machine and hoping it would give something back; trying to decide if it really dispensed cash…or just ate cards for sport. […]

Content chaos is costing you more than you think Every disconnected asset, every redundant workflow, every missed opportunity to reuse content adds up, not just in operational inefficiency, but in lost revenue, slower time-to-market, and diminished brand consistency. For many organizations, the content supply chain is broken, and the cracks show up everywhere: marketing campaigns […]

Sitecore has introduced the Content SDK for XM Cloud-now Sitecore AI to streamline the process of fetching content and rendering it on modern JavaScript front-end applications. If you’re building a website on Sitecore AI, the new Content SDK is the modern, recommended tool for your development team. Think of it as a specialized, lightweight toolkit […]