The Customer Engagement Journey framework for successful software products
Awareness→Acquisition→Engagement →Conversion →Adoption →Loyalty→Advocacy Holistic Design Approach for building and maturing products or services for specific customer segments needs a clear understanding on how customer gets engaged with your product or service. This framework of ‘Customer Engagement Journey’ would help ‘product owners’, and product companies to make sure they understand different stages of this journey, […]
Design can increase impact with Deep, and Wide approach
Design in the tech industry is maturing thru last 20+ years Designers are reaching ‘Deeper’ in the product and services to make a better business impact. Depth of design: for Software product or service Good looks: The basic looks of the product, the branding choice of images, color, icons, and typically all the visual elements […]
Digital Transformation = The fortune FOR the bottom of the pyramid
C. K. Prahalad’s economic Pyramid did inspire a lot of marketers in India for pushing tons of products like shampoo in single-use pouches selling millions of pieces, and yes it’s more profitable than selling a 200 ML shampoo bottle. but that is not the only thing we learn from the pyramid. The Pyramid is a great […]
Service design lifecycle for software Products becoming Services
Most software product companies desire to shift to ‘Subscription model’ from selling Perpetual licenses. I am calling it a transition from Selling Products to Offering Service. Microsoft and Adobe are two representative successful examples (and many others) of this type of transition. Both of them have successfully transited their flagship products to Service offerings, or pay […]
Product experience design process summarized in 12 Questions
UX Product Design process; here is an attempt to summarize it in 12 questions. The most challenging part for designers, is how to align your design process to your organization’s development process? I thought of simplifying the design process down to the level of a series of questions. The ownership of these questions and processes […]
Chief Design Officer in an IT Service company…
Some of my thoughts on how that role might play in IT Service companies. IT service companies have matured their offerings in last few decades. Types of the projects they handled have grown from BPO operations for noncritical processes to business critical solutions being delivered. The value the service they are delivering thru consulting for […]
Why do organizations need a Chief Design Officer?
There are a variety of roles in any organization for specific predefined tasks. This enables organizations to engage right skills for specific areas of operations. The Business owners would define the objective of the business they want to pursue. For example; we want to manufacture and sell two-wheelers in the market, or we want to […]
Hands on workshop: Designing Data fueled Applications for enterprises.
I would be conducting a hands on workshop, for UX designers, and product managers, at India HCI 2015. 17th Dec 2015, IIT Guwahati, India. The workshop is aimed at introducing the product design process that is followed in for enterprise IT products. Data is the new Oil: Modern enterprises are interested in leveraging all the data they own, […]
Bangalore design day event photos..
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Should UX designers get short course in Product Management?
I was wondering, should UX designers get a short training on Product Management or should the PMs take a short course in UX? Either way, let’s learn the other side of the story for sure. Recently I met up with a Product Manager, who said, I am ‘Done’ with the UX design, now that I […]