Articles

Kim Flaherty

Kim Flaherty is an experience design and journey-management consultant working independently through her consultancy, Resonant XD.

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Articles and Videos

  • 7 Ways to Analyze a Customer-Journey Map

    Evaluate your journey map to identify low and high points, failures in setting expectations, unnecessary steps, channel transitions, and moments of truth.

  • Animated GIFs in Email Are Worse Than Static Emails

    On average, people have a more positive reaction to emails without animated GIFs compared to those with animated GIFs.

  • CX vs. UX

    Customer Experience (CX) and User Experience (UX) are two common terms that mostly mean the same thing but have different connotations. Whatever your preferred term, it's important to consider design at 3 levels of experience.

  • Just-Right Personas: How to Choose the Scope of Your Personas

    Narrow- and broad-scope personas achieve different goals. Success depends on knowing the tradeoffs and structuring personas’ scope based on your end goal.

  • 10 Ways to Use Exit-Intent Popups to Improve UX

    Exit-intent popups can provide a good customer experience and offer benefits to users who are about to leave a website.

  • Good Customer Experience Demands Organizational Fluidity

    Old processes and technologies can keep established organizations from creating exceptional user experiences and achieving future growth.

  • Large Devices Preferred for Important Tasks

    Despite substantial improvements in mobile UX over the past decade, people still tend to do their most important online activities on larger screens.

  • Scenario Mapping for Design Exploration

    When you are in the early stages of designing a user experience flow, use scenario mapping to work out how different personas will use the proposed design to solve their tasks.

  • 4 Steps to Field Studies with Users

    Customer visits and other field studies to observe users in their natural habitat are one of the most important user research methods. This video covers the 4 basic steps to prepare and carry out ethnographic-style research, preferably early in the UX design process.

  • Applying Discounts and Promotions on Ecommerce Websites

    Coupons and other discounts should be easy to apply and shopping carts should clearly display how the total was affected by the promotion.