Customer Journeys Articles & Videos

  • 4 Key Components of Service Blueprints

    A service blueprint visualizes the relationships between different service components — people, props, and processes. Four key elements comprise a framework for service blueprinting that can be scaled to any scope or timeline.

  • In Defense of Post-its

    Sticky notes strengthen team dynamics and represent an egalitarian, concise means for expressing ideas in UX design projects.

  • UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet

    Empathy maps, customer journey maps, experience maps, and service blueprints depict different processes and have different goals, yet they all build common ground within an organization.

  • Service Blueprints: Definition

    Service blueprints visualize organizational processes in order to optimize how a business delivers a user experience.

  • Service Design 101

    Service design improves the experiences of both the user and employee by designing, aligning, and optimizing an organization’s operations to better support customer journeys.

  • The 5 Steps of Successful Customer Journey Mapping

    Five key steps comprise a standardized framework for customer journey mapping that can be scaled to any scope or timeline.

  • The 5 Steps to Customer Journey Mapping

    Journey maps combine two powerful instruments—storytelling and visualization—in order to help teams understand and address customer needs.

  • Seamlessness in the Omnichannel User Experience

    Companies must support painless transitions across channels in order to create a usable omnichannel experience.

  • Optimizing for Context in the Omnichannel User Experience

    Design for each channel’s unique strengths and role in the customer journey to create usable context-specific experiences.

  • Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries

    Rent the Runway, Uber, and Airbnb challenge the traditional experiences of their industries through deep design, not just screen-UI design.

  • Remote Customer Journey Mapping

    Digital tools help distributed teams compile journey maps into digital formats, collaborate synchronously, and integrate external data in their journey maps.

  • How Channels, Devices, and Touchpoints Impact the Customer Journey

    A touchpoint is defined by a combination of channel, device, and user task.

  • Journey Mapping in Real Life: A Survey of UX Practitioners

    Successful journey maps need to be focused on a clear business goal, well communicated in the organization, and truthful to user needs.

  • When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps

    Journey maps combine two powerful instruments—storytelling and visualization—in order to help teams understand and address customer needs.

  • Customer Journeys and Omnichannel User Experience

    Organizations must create omnichannel UX strategies that optimize the end-to-end user experience of completing a task across devices and interaction channels.