Tag Archives: User / 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 [...]

Content Strategy Slides & Photos – They’re Up!

Content Strategy Slides & Photos – They’re Up!

Posted November 2nd, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, User / Customer Experience, Writing | No Comments

Miraculously, I received permission from all four panelists to post their slides from CHi*Atlanta’s content strategy panel on October 22.  Enjoy!

 
When your brain gets tired, check out some of the [...]

What’s Happening: More on Metaphor and Content Strategy Panel

Posted October 24th, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Happenings, Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Psychology, User / Customer Experience, Writing | No Comments

It’s been a BUSY couple of weeks!  

My latest UXMatters column shares more on metaphor: The Magic of Metaphor.  So far it’s getting some interesting comments.  May the conversation continue!    

 

On [...]

Going Deep: A Visit to Metaphoria

Posted October 13th, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Psychology, Research, User / Customer Experience, Writing | No Comments

“The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures [...]

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 [...]

How Content Works at HowStuffWorks: Make It Matter, Says Editor-in-Chief

Posted September 23rd, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Interviews, User / Customer Experience, Writing | 2 Comments

HowStuffWorks.com started in 1998 as a collection of articles about everything from refrigerators to electromagnets, with each article crafted by North Carolina State University professor Marshall Brain. Today, HowStuffWorks.com is [...]

What’s Happening: New Article on VUIs and More

Posted September 22nd, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Mobile, Persuasion and Influence, User / Customer Experience | No Comments

The response to this blog has been wonderful–a winning experience, you might say.  SO winning that some cool things are happening, and I want to update you.
Article on Emotion and [...]

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 [...]