Customer Experience and Design

May 19, 2022 is the 11th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). GAAD is an event to get everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access and inclusion. The day started with a single blog post written by a web developer, Joe Devon. An accessibility professional in Toronto, Jennison Asuncion, stumbled across the blog […]

It really is a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world. It seems like everyone in 2021 took out a loan on a new car, even though we all knew supplies were low and demand was high. As the Financial Times pointed out: “Americans went shopping for cars in a big way during the pandemic. […]

Product teams should be keen to understand how people interact with digital content and media. For one, web users’ interactions with website content changes over time. Two, it changes by situation. And three, it changes by ability. For example, what a web user can do in her 20’s, such as navigating web pages with a mouse, […]

According to industry research, 73% of all people point to customer experience as an important factor in their purchasing decisions. Moreover, customers in the financial services industry are increasingly interested in using their go-to firm to cover more of their needs, rather than using multiple providers. To meet the needs of their customers, banks are creating […]

While it was once expected and acceptable for lenders to enforce standardized payment due dates and policies, COVID-19 brought the impracticality and ineffectiveness of a “one-size-fits-all” approach to credit and lending to light. Two-plus years later, banks and credit unions continue to feel the pressure to transform their credit and lending operations. And for good. […]

Much is being written in the media about generational decision-making when it comes to healthcare. Boomers are closing the digital divide, millennials are driving a streamlined end-to-end experience, and Gen Z is pushing that experience to include more transactional services such as voice search. But where is Gen X in all of this? The generation […]

We are excited to announce that Karie Daudt, Director of Commerce Strategy, and Justin Racine, Director of Commerce Consulting, will speak at Digital Commerce 360’s EnvisionB2B in Chicago, Illinois. EnvisionB2B is an in-person conference that connects ecommerce experts and researchers to B2B professionals to help them build and maintain a digital B2B strategy that speaks to their […]

Today 1 in 4 Americans hit virtual roadblocks accessing web content simply because their capabilities, adaptive strategies or their assistive technologies are not considered during the design of digital experiences such as websites. How many website users in the U.S. could potentially be affected? There are 307 million internet users and 276.8 million mobile internet users in […]

This is a series covering the new products released to the public by Appian during Appian World 2022.     Appian World is a place where businesses and technology leaders can connect, share ideas, learn about innovative business solutions, listen to featured speaker Malala Yousafzai, and hear about new products on the market from Appian. […]

In our previous blogs, we’ve documented how insurance is a complicated product for the traditional commerce process. Let’s recap what we’ve covered: It’s a product mandated by the state, financial institutions, and professions for many parts of life – driving, homeownership, rental, professional liability, and others. But it’s not a product that most of us […]

A recent Forbes article explored this and last year’s challenges pertaining to inventory stock levels and availability. In case you forgot, last year and the previous year offered tough times for retailers, as the pandemic increased the time it takes to get products from overseas, thus providing a below-average customer experience for folks looking to […]

1. Limit the visuals in dashboards and reports Limit the visuals in reports & dashboard. Keep the tiles limited to no more than 10 per dashboard. 2. Remove unnecessary interactions between visuals We can make that possible by removing unnecessary interactions between visuals. This is possible because of the reason that all visuals on a […]