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Modernize Your Corporate Website to Drive Business Value

Drive higher user satisfaction and value through UX-driven websites.

  • Users are demanding more valuable web functionalities and improved access to your website services. They are expecting development teams to keep up with their changing needs.
  • The criteria of user acceptance and satisfaction involves more than an aesthetically pleasing user interface (UI). It also includes how emotionally attached the user is to the website and how it accommodates user behaviors.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Complication

  • Organizations are focusing too much on the UI when they optimize the user experience of their websites. The UI is only one of many components involved in successful websites with good user experience.
  • User experience (UX) is often an afterthought in development, risking late and costly fixes to improve end-user reception after deployment.

Insights

  • Organizations often misinterpret UX as UI. In fact, UX incorporates both the functional and emotional needs of the user, going beyond the website’s UI.
  • Human behaviors and tendencies are commonly left out of the define and design phases of website development, putting user satisfaction and adoption at risk.

Impact and Result

  • Gain a deep understanding of user needs and behaviors. Become familiar with the human behaviors, emotions, and pain points of your users in order to shortlist the design elements and website functions that will receive the highest user satisfaction.
  • Perform a comprehensive website review. Leverage satisfaction surveys, user feedback, and user monitoring tools (e.g. heat maps) to reveal high-level UX issues. Use these insights to drill down into the execution and composition of your website to identify the root causes of issues.
  • Incorporate modern UX trends in your design. New web technologies are continuously emerging in the industry to enhance user experience. Stay updated on today’s UX trends and validate their fit for the specific needs of your target audience.

Modernize Your Corporate Website to Drive Business Value Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should modernize your website, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and discover the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

1. Define UX requirements

Reveal the opportunities to heighten the user experience of your website through a deep understanding of the behaviors, emotions, and needs of your end users in order to design a receptive and valuable website.

2. Design UX-driven website

Design a satisfying and receptive website by leveraging industry best practices and modern UX trends and ensuring the website is supported with reliable and scalable data and infrastructure.

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Get the help you need in this 2-phase advisory process. You'll receive 2 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Define your UX requirements
  • Call 1: Discuss the UX requirements of your website and the root causes behind existing UX issues.

Guided Implementation 2: Design your UX-driven website
  • Call 1: Discuss initiatives to optimize the UX of your website.

Authors

Andrew Kum-Seun

Altaz Valani

Kyle Lubieniecki

Kevin Kim

Contributors

  • Shannah Segal, Principal, UX Matters
  • Michael Dedrick, Senior UX/UI Designer, Apple/IBM
  • Alan Page, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
  • John McGloon, UX Expert

Search Code: 78500
Last Revised: September 14, 2015

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