Tag Archives: customer experience
A Review of American Airlines’ Mobile Boarding Pass

A Review of American Airlines’ Mobile Boarding Pass

Posted November 28th, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Mobile, Usability, User / Customer Experience | No Comments

Any company with a mobile interest is creating new customer experiences faster than you can say “iPhone.” An interesting one is American Airlines’ mobile boarding pass.  In this experience, innovative [...]

When UX Misunderstands Marketing…

Posted October 1st, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Essays, Marketing, User / Customer Experience | 4 Comments

I just read a rather bothersome post, The marketing view of user-centered design, on the highly respected blog Putting people first.  The post takes excerpts from an article about customer-centric [...]

Service Experience Depends on Content

Service Experience Depends on Content

Posted September 29th, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Interaction Design, Mobile, Writing | 1 Comment

I recently helped design a music mastering service from soup to nuts.  So fun!  The process reminded me that content plays a key role in the service experience.  I first [...]

Authenticity: There, Gone, and Back Again

Authenticity: There, Gone, and Back Again

Posted September 15th, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Essays, Persuasion and Influence, User / Customer Experience | 1 Comment

Last week I enjoyed a vacation in Vermont.  If there was one word that came to mind over and over again, it was “authentic.”  No obnoxious billboards.  Lots of gorgeous [...]

Content Is More Than Copy

Content Is More Than Copy

Posted September 6th, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Essays, Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Usability, User / Customer Experience, Writing | No Comments

When I talk to people — clients, UX professionals, interactive marketers — about content, I find an assumption often lurks beneath their comments.  What’s that assumption?  It’s content = copy.  From that assumption [...]

The Persuasive Power of Storytelling

The Persuasive Power of Storytelling

Posted July 10th, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Writing | 2 Comments

For my first post, I want to share one of my favorite ways to take website content from blah to brilliant – telling a story.
A story appeals to our emotional [...]