Customer Journeys Articles & Videos

  • UX Is Dead, Long Live UX

    Businesses must shift their focus from a narrow, product-level view of UX to a holistic one that spans a customer's lifelong experience.

  • Journey-Centric Design Lessons Learned: From Culture Change to Process Governance

    Real organizations share what they learned while adopting journey-centric design so other organizations can avoid the same pitfalls.

  • UX and CX Merge: The Shift from Products to Journeys

    Organizations are starting to merge user experience and customer experience into a single function, setting the foundation for a journey-centric-experience practice.

  • Journey-Centric Design: The Evolution of UX-Design Operations for The Coming Era

    Product-centric design does not leverage design’s potential for creating long-term business value and profitability. Journey-centric design can optimize customer experiences.

  • The 4 Stages of AI Image Generation: An Experience Map

    AI image generation users often follow a similar creative process: ideate, generate, refine, and export.

  • Building Interactive UX Maps

    Interactions can be applied to high-fidelity UX maps to showcase user research and further engage with stakeholders.

  • Virtual Queues: 13 Best Practices for Managing the Wait

    Well-designed virtual queues help manage the wait to free up users to do other things.

  • User Experience vs. Customer Experience: What’s The Difference?

    Customer experience (CX) is a term commonly used to define UX over long periods of time.

  • User Journeys vs. User Flows

    User journeys and user flows both describe processes users go through in order to accomplish their goals, but they differ in scope, purpose, and format.

  • Digital Interactions in Healthcare Customer Journeys

    In healthcare, the employment of digital interactions and digital tools has been haphazard, creating fragmented experiences for consumers.

  • Omnichannel Journeys and Customer Experience: Study Guide

    Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about what omnichannel customer journeys are, how to conduct research to evaluate them, and how to design journeys effectively.

  • Understanding User Pathways in Analytics

    While analytics cannot be the only source of data about user journeys, path reports can provide insights about potential issues, typical navigation routes, and the content that users interact with right before key actions.

  • Luxury Shopping User Groups and Journeys

    There are four primary categories of luxury shoppers: window shoppers, personal stylists, occasional splurgers, and big spenders. Luxury brands often fail their customers during the “consider” phase of their journey.

  • Journey-Mapping Impact: Research Findings

    Our research suggests that customer-journey maps 1) tend to be created collaboratively with a team, 2) produced with digital tools, and 3) are moderately successful at making organizational impact.

  • Service Blueprints: How to Choose What Experience to Visualize

    Start with a small-to-medium experience, that is known to be problematic, comes with existing data, will be redesigned soon, and that you can control.

  • The Practice of Customer-Journey Management

    User journeys should be managed like products — by people and teams with specialized, journey-dedicated roles who continually research, measure, optimize, and orchestrate the experience.

  • Three Levels of Pain Points in Customer Experience

    Pain points are problems that occur at the different levels of the customer experience: interaction level, customer-journey level, or relationship level.

  • Collaboration in the Omnichannel Experience

    Collaboration is one of the 5 key components of omnichannel user experience. Collaboration between normally disparate devices or channels creates new ways to interact.

  • Asset Mapping for Experience Consistency

    Asset maps display and organize the screens and elements users encounter along workflows and journeys. They provide a systematic way of analyzing the consistency of an organization’s experience across channels.

  • A Framework for CX Transformation: How to Operationalize CX at Scale

    To deliver high-quality omnichannel experiences, companies must develop an operational ecosystem that enables crossfunctional collaboration and quick reaction to customers’ needs.