More than a decade ago, I created this trailer for my book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. For reasons I can no longer remember, I never released it. It became a lost trailer from the digital era. Yet the idea behind it may be even more important in the AI era. At the time, customers were changing faster than the experiences companies designed for them. Digital, mobile, and social technologies were reshaping how people communicated, discovered, purchased, shared,…
In the Era of AI, Human Experience is the Killer App
I had the privilege of keynoting UserTesting conferences in San Francisco and New York. It was my third and fourth UserTesting event respectively, which I guess makes this a situationship now. 😍 The theme was experience innovation in an era of AI. The real message wasn’t really about AI. It was about people. It was about how human beings are changing faster than the experiences designed for them. It was about why, in this new era of increasingly ‘intelligent’ machines,…
AI Adoption is an Act of Self-Disruption: An Interview with Invisible Machines
Brian Solis, is a digital anthropologist and futurist who serves as the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow and is the former Head of Global Innovation at Salesforce. Brian is a bestselling author of Mindshift, which helps leaders learn how to see emerging trends, harness disruptive forces, and use them to fuel growth. Brian joins Robb and Josh, the authors of Invisible Machines, to talk with us about the importance of self-disruption in AI adoption. With so many genAI projects…
How to Cultivate Customer Empathy in Experience Design and Innovation – A Conversation with Janelle Estes UserTesting
In this episode of the Human Insight Podcast, futurist and best-selling author Brian Solis comes on the show to discuss the importance of observing and talking with your customers. This conversation with Janelle Estes was recorded live at The Human Insight Summit in New Orleans. Producer’s note: Do you know how your customers experience your brand today? Do you know how they really feel? Do you know what they say when you’re not around? You think you know your customers, but you…
Customers are the Ultimate Influencers; The Value of a Shared Experiences and How To Measure Them
After releasing, What’s the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences, I also published a secret “bonus” chapter for those who finished the book and found the Easter egg at the end. Now, I’m making the bonus chapter available for everyone. Why? Because the four moments of truth explored in WTF not only define the modern customer journey, the link between the Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT) and what I call the Ultimate Moment of Truth (UMOT) is…
Build Brand Awareness and Relevance Through Mobile-First Micro Moments
Since 2020, every organization, all at once, was challenged to digitize customer journeys. From e-commerce to buy online pickup in store (BOPIS) to curbside to deliveries to buy now pay later (BNPL) to micro-fulfillment and everything in-between, digital transformation was no longer a competitive differentiator, it was a necessary business foundation just to compete on par with everyone else. But as digital-first buying behaviors became the new norm, customers quickly realized that “digital” itself isn’t a magic wand to deliver…
X: The Experience When Business Meets Design – GetAbstract Summary
Digital customer experience has never been more important. The pandemic accelerated e-commerce, AI and automation, and digital transformation by 10 years. What most businesses still aren’t prepared for however, is how to think beyond digital tools and platforms to design intuitive digital experiences that inspire human engagement in every touch point across the CX journey. That’s what X: The Experience When Business Meets Design set out to do. It was designed to help “imagineers” image a unified customer journey that…
Experience Innovation: Evolving from Customer Experience to the Customer’s Experience
In 2017, I spent time with jrni to discuss the rising opportunity of true CX…not digital…not analog…just real world CX based on how everyday connected people were making decisions in their journey. I never shared the article. But, it’s time that I do. It’s more important now, I believe, than it was then. CX, customers experience, neigh, the customer’s experience is everything now…because it’s theirs. It’s an opportunity to deliver an experience that becomes an unforgettable, incredible memory. A memory…
Customers Seek Experiences That Enhance Their Current State, Design Accordingly
In a world of distraction, listeners make the best experience and engagement architects. In a mobile-first world, experiences must be reimagined for the small screen. The best experiences will break the fourth wall of digital to deliver real human-to-human engagement. Like software, mobile has eaten the world. But mobile is more than a next-generation platform. Mobile is a powerful unifier. It has evolved into a digital hub for humanity, business and society. It brings us together while connecting us to…
EA Puts Customers and Data at the Center of its Innovative Marketing Organizational Model
EA CMO Chris Bruzzo sees the direct relationships between customer experience, data, user experience and marketing as a new operational mode. That’s what I call X. Marketers who prioritize customer data in their work will find new opportunities to deeply engage their customers on a personalized level. And that’s what customers are now expecting from their favorite brands. But, marketers who simply use new technology to be on trend will find themselves limited to the same old thinking and results….