Refining Design for Business: Using analytics, marketing, and technology to inform customer-centric design

Refining Design for Business: Using analytics, marketing, and technology to inform customer-centric design

by Michael Krypel
Released March 2014
Publisher(s): Adobe Press
ISBN: 9780133478372

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Book description

This book features over 60 detailed examples of A/B tests run by 20 companies, including: Adobe, American Express, Comcast, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Foursquare, Google, IBM, LinkedIn, Marriott, Obama for America, Saks Fifth Avenue, T-Mobile, and The Washington Post.

In this book, you will learn how to:
 

  • Change the standard design process most companies follow to enhance accountability for generating business and customer value, while creating new opportunities for collaboration and innovation.

  • Use qualitative and quantitative research to uncover customers’ unmet needs, and A/B test new designs to help customers accomplish their goals.

  • Apply customer-centric design principles based on the advice of experts from Google, Facebook, The Washington Post, Saks Fifth Avenue, and others, who share how they help their customers with before-and-after examples of their designs.


    • This book is divided into three parts:

    Part 1: Creating Engaging Customer Experiences. This part discusses the level of importance design now plays in the business world, challenges the standard design process implemented by most companies, and introduces the Iterative Optimization Methodology by showing how design testing can lead to more creative and impactful designs.

    Part 2: The Iterative Optimization Methodology. Using real-life examples, this part describes how to drive business and customer value in step-by-step detail. It shows how companies can integrate qualitative and quantitative customer research, prioritize website sections and design ideas for testing, experiment with new designs under real market conditions, and scale optimization techniques across their organization.

    Part 3: Visual Business Cases. In this part, business leaders from 20 companies share examples of their favorite design tests and discuss practical approaches for using data to inform customer-centric design:
    •    Adobe: Mikel Chertudi, Senior Director, Media & Digital Marketing
    •    Ally Bank: Andrew Switzer, Director of Online Sales and Marketing
    •    American Express: Thomas Lau, Senior Manager, Online Prospect Acquisition
    •    Caesars Entertainment: Chris Kahle, Web Analytics Manager
    •    Comcast: John Williamson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Comcast.com
    •    Dell: Emily Campbell, Executive Director of Global E-Commerce
    •    Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group: Sandy Martin, Director of eMarketing & Administration
    •    Electronic Arts: Zimran Ahmed, Director of Product Management and Strategic Planning
    •    Facebook: Nate Bolt, Design Research Manager
    •    Foursquare: Simon Favreau-Lessard, Software Engineer
    •    Google: Jon Wiley, Lead Designer, Google Search
    •    Hightail: Linda Tai, Director of Analytics
    •    IBM: Phil Corbett, Manager, Marketing Analytics
    •    LinkedIn: Amy Parnell, Principal Designer
    •    Marriott International: Kenyon Rogers, Director of Digital Experiments
    •    Obama for America: Kyle Rush, Deputy Director of Front-end Web Development
    •    PetCareRx: Blake Brossman, Founder and COO
    •    Saks Fifth Avenue: Roger Scholl, Vice President of Operations for Saks Direct
    •    T-Mobile: Ryan Pizzuto, Web Test & Optimization Strategy Manager | Onsite Search Product Manager
    •    The Washington Post: Eileen Krill, Research Manager

    On the importance of design to online business:

    No matter how great a business idea is, or what technology it relies on behind the scenes, a company needs to express itself visually in a way customers will understand in order to be successful. The number of ways to translate an idea into a design is infinite, but which designs will drive customer value? Michael Krypel’s Refining Design for Business answers this key question, showing you how to create engaging and measurable customer experiences.
     

    Table of contents

    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright Page
    3. Dedication Page
    4. Acknowledgments
    5. Contents at a Glance
    6. Contents
    7. Introduction
      1. The Age of Optimization
      2. How This Book Is Structured
    8. Part 1: Creating Engaging Customer Experiences
      1. Chapter 1. The Art and Science of Business
        1. The Importance of Design to Business
        2. Visual Business Cases
        3. Building an Optimization Organization
        4. Up Next
        5. References
      2. Chapter 2. Using Data to Inform Design
        1. The Traditional Design Process
        2. Reexamining the Design Process
        3. Online Design Is Not Fine Art
        4. Advice from Business Leaders
        5. Up Next
        6. References
    9. Part 2: The Iterative Optimization Methodology
      1. Chapter 3. Methodology Overview
        1. Step by Step
        2. The Optimization Roadmap
        3. The Optimization Plan
        4. Optimization Launch
        5. Optimization Results
        6. Case Study: PetCareRx
        7. Up Next
      2. Chapter 4. Qualitative Research
        1. Benefits of Qualitative Research
        2. User Experience Reviews
        3. Observational Customer Research
        4. Other Research Methods
        5. Case Study: Comcast
        6. Take a Step Back
        7. Up Next
        8. References
      3. Chapter 5. Quantitative Research and Optimization Roadmap
        1. Benefits of Quantitative Studies
        2. Analytics in Action: A Case Study
        3. Action Plan: Roadmap Assembly
        4. Up Next
        5. References
      4. Chapter 6. Optimization in Action
        1. Optimization Plan
        2. Test Methodology
        3. Success Metrics and Segments
        4. Wireframes
        5. Design Comps
        6. Optimization Launch
        7. Optimization Results
        8. Communication
        9. Up Next
        10. References
      5. Chapter 7. Building an Optimization Organization
        1. Optimization Maturity Model
        2. Hiring and Nurturing Talent
        3. Up Next
    10. Part 3: Visual Business Cases
      1. Adobe
      2. Ally Bank
      3. American Express®
      4. Caesars Entertainment
      5. Comcast
      6. Dell
      7. Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group
      8. Electronic Arts
      9. Facebook
      10. Foursquare
      11. Google
      12. Hightail
      13. IBM
      14. LinkedIn
      15. Marriott International
      16. Obama for America
      17. PetCareRx
      18. Saks Fifth Avenue
      19. T-Mobile
      20. The Washington Post
    11. Index

    Product information

    • Title: Refining Design for Business: Using analytics, marketing, and technology to inform customer-centric design
    • Author(s): Michael Krypel
    • Release date: March 2014
    • Publisher(s): Adobe Press
    • ISBN: 9780133478372