thoughts on customer feedback - aviva rosenstein, warmgun 2014
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Based on interviews with:""
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Make it easy for the user: just give them a text field box...
Simplify development; !email the text entries to a shared team alias…!
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Most users don’t care about a company’s organizational structure or internal divisions of labor. They will communicate their needs through any channel available. And they usually expect organizations to share that information internally.
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Data “User Experience Design is not data-driven, it’s insight-driven. Data is just raw material for insight.”
Andrew Hinton (@inkblurt), 2009
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Insight: an understanding of cause and effect, based on recognition of relationships and behaviors within a specific context
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Customers don’t care about a company’s organizational structure or internal divisions of labor. They will communicate their needs through any channel available, and they expect organizations to share that information internally.
Collecting customer feedback, by itself, has no ROI. Value comes fromderiving useful insights and closing the loop with the customer.
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Image credit: TruScribe for Weird Al Yankovic’s Mission Statement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
HOW IN-PRODUCT FEEDBACK HELPS STARTUPS!
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Users’ feedback is usually about: • Billing or account problems • Problems using the system • Suggestions for improving the product Once in a
while, they even say nice things: !
This was the easiest signing program I have ever had to use. It was totally fast and I didn't have to call the customer service support and stay on the phone with a rep. for hours to get my document signed and sent. WONDERFUL program!!!!!!
Actual User
Feedback!
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Other approaches to getting user feedback:
Phone or email conversations with
customers
Social Media
Ad hoc surveys and focus groups
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My Top Goals for Collecting Feedback � Validity Produces unbiased, trustworthy data � Delivery Easy to share insights with team members � Retention Knowledge retained in the company � Usability Won’t pollute the user experience � Scalability Easy to implement, uses resources efficiently � Contextual Channel accessible from within the service "
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Validity Delivery Retention Usability Scalability Contextual
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Social Media
Customer Calls
Focus Groups
In Product Surveys
Ad Hoc Surveys
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Open Ended feedback + metadata
Parsed into custom
variables
Imported as record by
survey tool
Live Reporting/Dashboard
Alert Logic (to PM)
Imported to customer
record in CRM Alert Logic
(to AM)
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42%
29% 23%
19% 18% 17% 17% 14% 14% 13% 13% 13%
10% 9% 9% 8% 8% 8% 8% 7%
Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail
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13%
14%
17%
17%
42%
Product Mis-Timed
Ignored Customers
Need/Lack Business Model
Poor Product Quality or Usability
No Market Need for Solution
Primary driver of startup failure: Lacking insights into customers’ needs
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Find Out Who is
Affected
Identify Themes
and Patterns
Collect Data
Map Causes and Effects
Rapid testing
User Feedback
Measure Impact
Refine Strategy
Definition Discovery Develop Deliver
What To Do & Why How To Do It
Launch Idea or Vision
Opportunity Aligned to Objectives
READY AIM FIRE
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