Blog - Design & UX

  • 6 min read

    How to Identify and Fix a Broken UX with User Behavior Analytics

    Some website users undergo a bad UX, which leads them to exit — or worse — bounce from a website, possibly to never again return. Understanding what causes premature site exits is key to improving the customer experience (CX), and delivering journeys that help customers meet their wide-ranging digital expectations. Making use of data for […]

    Lorraine Ryshin

  • 2 min read

    4 Tips for Maximizing Engagement & ROI on 2019 Holiday Gift Guides

    Wondering how best to set up your digital gift guides in time for the holidays? Follow these four tips to make sure your website is making the most out of its “featured gift” products, and is helping users navigate through the 2019 holiday season chaos with much-needed ease. 1. Avoid using content blocks that take […]

    Michelle Lee

  • 5 min read

    Digital CX We’re Thankful for: UX Lessons for Thanksgiving & Beyond

    Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and as we near this precious time of family reunions, hearty meals and giving thanks for all of life’s blessings, we thought it would be fitting to call out another source of our gratitude: good digital customer experience (CX).  While gathering data is crucial to building a good UX […]

    Lorraine Ryshin

  • 5 min read

    What We Learned from 110 Million Visitor Sessions During Black Friday & Cyber Monday

    We’re entering the most hectic time of the year again — and it’s not even (officially) the holiday season. That’s because the holiday season doesn’t formally start until the holy grail of retail events. We’re of course alluding to Black Friday, the crème de la crème for boosting revenue. Our globally-extracted data attests to the […]

    Lorraine Ryshin

  • 6 min read

    Mobile Marketing: How To Boost Your Mobile UX 

    According to Pew Research Center, 81% of Americans today own a smartphone, and mobile dependence is also on the rise.  Emarketer predicts that by 2021, “mCommerce will account for 72.9% of the ecommerce market.”  Like many other digital teams around the world, you may be scratching your head, wondering what you need to do to […]

    Pierre Sommer

  • 5 min read

    Phygital CX: The Changing Face of Omnichannel Retail

    Not to be outdone by the wordsmiths of this world, the retail industry recently came up with its own neologism, coining the term “phygital” to describe a new form of commerce — one that blends the best of offline and online experiences for an elevated customer experience (CX).  It may be early days in the […]

    Pierre Sommer

  • 3 min read

    3 Travel UX Must-Dos for Your Travel Booking Website

    Travel UI design can be a hard nut to crack, especially when it comes to conversions. Our recent analysis of 2,100 Million visitor sessions across several verticals found that travel and tourism has one of the lowest mobile conversion rates of all sectors (0.90% average). Desktop reigns over mobile within this sector on every performance […]

    Michelle Lee

  • 5 min read

    Boo! 5 Examples of Scary UX to Avoid on Halloween — and Always

    Halloween is creeping in on us as the October days tail off. But that doesn’t mean your user experience (UX) should be frightening. While frights are fun for haunted houses and other ghoulish festivities, they shouldn’t trickle into your customer experience.  Alas, as our clients can attest, bad UX has reared its head like a […]

    Lorraine Ryshin