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A quick update for you to let you know all the exciting perm roles are currently looking to fill: Senior UX Architects UX Architects Business Analysts (Retail and Financial Services) Project Managers (Retail and Financial Services) Associate Creative Director Senior UI Developer Senior Designers I have full job specs for each of these and ...

Even when you work with world-class brands (retailers, mobile phone companies, finance companies, all sorts…) they still ask who in the world does digital customer experience the best. So, often they ask “who is the best in our industry online?” and often ask us the same question more generally, looking to find examples to follow from other ...

I’m taking a respite from my recent glut of multi-touch posts and jumping back in to the web paradigm with one of my favorite ecommerce topics – the online checkout process.  An online retailer has asked me to solve the mystery of why a high number of shoppers are going AWOL during their checkout process. My concern is that I am ...

Started this Blog as a sort of step and thoughts for the forthcoming Luxury Interactive (e-Commerce) event in London on 16th – 18th March details here… I have been asked to attend – and got me thinking about the Luxury market and how it is handling the current recession. Not hearing anything from Dior, Gucci or Dolce & Gabbana that they are ...

It's a few weeks now since I got back from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in LA. This was a different conference for me. Normally, I would be at a conference to present on topics like Experience Design, Digital Innovation, or some user interface related technology / design topic. And this would be to a mixed audience of ...

In my last post on Microsoft Surface, I mentioned that some of the business and brand people we spoke to about Surface didn’t immediately see the opportunity. Or rather, they didn’t see a cost-justifiable opportunity when set within the current environment of the Surface ecosystem. The latter is particularly true in the media business. A Brand ...

Microsoft Surface in Europe is out in the open, and we’re now allowed out and about to talk to people and show them Surface in action. So, the last few weeks have seen us out and about a lot with our Microsoft Surface devices. A lot of communication internally to help our own teams understand the medium, and its unique interaction paradigms; as ...

Empire Direct demonstrate how a solid online experience can be undermined by failure to address the total customer experience. Customers may come but get the experience wrong and they won’t come back.    As part of my customer service frustration therapy here is how the story went ...   The colours on our CRT TV had seen better ...

The report on the top 50 UK retailers customer services proposition is still in progress.  By progress I mean that all the criteria for evaluating their proposition has been recorded and I now need to review the findings to make some sense of it.   In the meantime as a light aperitif here's a preamble around the all-important Customer ...

Momentum is building for self-service technologies in the real world.  Consumers are adopting these self-service interactions and interacting less with in-store customer services.  Online it's a different story as online shoppers want someone to talk to. In Future Now's 2007 Retail Customer Experience Survey, they recommend ...