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Designing experiences with content

Written by Joyce Hostyn on February 3, 2011 - 0 Comments
content strategy, customer experience, experience design

What’s the worst customer experience you’ve ever had? In this presentation from Content World, I (partially) chronicle my own worst ever customer experience using a simplified customer experience journey map. While it wasn’t the worst in terms of any one interaction, the overall experience as it unfolded over time, across multiple interactions, and through multiple [...]

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Thinking beyond the website

Written by Joyce Hostyn on April 22, 2010 - 3 Comments
content strategy, customer experience

While I’m excited by the rapid growth of the discipline of content strategy as evidenced by last week’s sold out Content Strategy Forum in Paris and the growing buzz about content strategy across the webisphere, most of the conversation is currently centered around web content strategy. I think the reason the conversation has centered around [...]

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Bridging silos through story

Written by Joyce Hostyn on April 14, 2010 - 4 Comments
content strategy, customer experience, story

In the spirit of filter or be flooded (Fast Company) and the Simplicity of Dr. Seuss (a funny must read on the need for content strategy), I’m sharing my draft of “What’s your story? Designing a holistic customer experience” in advance of my talk at the Content Strategy Forum. I’ve crafted something too long to present [...]

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10 reasons content strategy is essential when designing a holistic customer experience

Written by Joyce Hostyn on April 7, 2010 - 5 Comments
content strategy, customer experience, experience design, story

Next week I’m attending (and speaking at) the first Content Strategy Forum in Paris. I’m intrigued by the discipline of content strategy because I believe that now, more than ever before, content strategy is critical for designing a holistic customer experience. No longer will content be thought of as a necessary evil (technical how to [...]

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Designing for a holistic customer experience – thinking outside the product

Written by Joyce Hostyn on March 31, 2010 - 6 Comments
customer experience, design thinking, experience design

Economies right now are fundamentally becoming less about physical objects and more about creating ideas and experiences… We now have a new challenge: we have to meet a new emphasis on improving experiences instead of objects, and we need to improve the flow of interactions between customers and service providers. – Daniel Pink, Business Thinking [...]

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Visualizing the customer experience using customer experience journey maps

Written by Joyce Hostyn on March 22, 2010 - 13 Comments
customer experience, visual thinking

People discover unseen opportunities when they have a personal and empathic connection with the world around them. For individuals, that means developing the ability to walk in other people’s shoes. For companies and other large institutions, that means finding a way to bring the rest of the world inside their walls. – Dev Patnaik, Wired [...]

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