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Digital Customer Experience Trends for 2012

by Rebecca Flavin
December 21, 2011

Forrester recently posted a question to its Customer Experience Community members on what their major predictions were around the customer experience in 2012. There was a lot of discussion around organizational maturity (e.g., is the organization in a place where it can take on a true customer focus?), as well as the personalization of experiences across channels. I chimed in [...]

Tools for User Research and Client Persuasion

by Leonard Souza
December 12, 2011

I’ve been a fan of Smashing Magazine for some time, so when I was asked to write an article for them you can imagine my excitement. We decided the piece should focus on some of our user research methodologies, especially those explored in EffectiveUI’s project with Boeing. There were several key deliverables provided to Boeing that helped overcome some of [...]

How to build a Simple Painting App for iOS

by Sean Christmann
December 2, 2011

This article is part of a 3-part series on how to build a simple painting app for different mobile platforms. The aim is to explain to readers how a simple programming concept has to evolve to create a good user experience with high performance. The series is available for iOS, Android, as well as Adobe AIR for mobile. The Naive [...]