
User Tested
How the World's Top Companies Use Human Insight to Create Great Experiences
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2022
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-119-84463-1 (ISBN)
Description
An insightful discussion and practical guide on how to put customers back into the center of your business model
With so many digital experiences touching our lives-and businesses-it's understandable to feel like you're drowning in data. There's a dashboard or chart for just about everything, but data alone can't help you understand and empathize with your customers. No amount of it will take you inside their heads, help you see the world through their eyes, or let you experience what it's really like to be your customer. Only human insight from real people can do that.
User Tested gives both individual contributors and executives an approachable, pragmatic playbook for stepping beyond standard business metrics and infusing real human insight into every business decision, design, and experience.
In this book, you'll:
Learn how businesses became obsessed with data-but disconnected from their customers-and why that's not sustainable
Get the basics about how to capture human insight through user testing, including how to find the right people, ask the right questions, and make sense of and act on all the insights you uncover
Dive into a detailed playbook that shares real-world examples of how you can collect and scale human insight across the teams in your organization-from marketing to product, and beyond
Learn how to evangelize the power of human insight throughout your organization, so every department can create a culture of customer empathy and share a firsthand understanding of customer needs
Find out how companies like Microsoft, AAA Club Alliance, HelloFresh, and Notre Dame's IDEA Center solidly connect with and elicit meaningful feedback from customers in friendlier, faster, and more direct ways
Perfect for any industry, User Tested: How the World's Top Companies Use Human Insight to Create Great Experiences was co-authored by the chief insights officer and the CEO of UserTesting-a SaaS company fundamentally changing the way both B2B and consumer brands find out what real people think and feel. The book reflects the authors' commitment to helping you position the customer squarely in the center of your business model by weaving their true voices throughout your company's decision making.
With so many digital experiences touching our lives-and businesses-it's understandable to feel like you're drowning in data. There's a dashboard or chart for just about everything, but data alone can't help you understand and empathize with your customers. No amount of it will take you inside their heads, help you see the world through their eyes, or let you experience what it's really like to be your customer. Only human insight from real people can do that.
User Tested gives both individual contributors and executives an approachable, pragmatic playbook for stepping beyond standard business metrics and infusing real human insight into every business decision, design, and experience.
In this book, you'll:
Learn how businesses became obsessed with data-but disconnected from their customers-and why that's not sustainable
Get the basics about how to capture human insight through user testing, including how to find the right people, ask the right questions, and make sense of and act on all the insights you uncover
Dive into a detailed playbook that shares real-world examples of how you can collect and scale human insight across the teams in your organization-from marketing to product, and beyond
Learn how to evangelize the power of human insight throughout your organization, so every department can create a culture of customer empathy and share a firsthand understanding of customer needs
Find out how companies like Microsoft, AAA Club Alliance, HelloFresh, and Notre Dame's IDEA Center solidly connect with and elicit meaningful feedback from customers in friendlier, faster, and more direct ways
Perfect for any industry, User Tested: How the World's Top Companies Use Human Insight to Create Great Experiences was co-authored by the chief insights officer and the CEO of UserTesting-a SaaS company fundamentally changing the way both B2B and consumer brands find out what real people think and feel. The book reflects the authors' commitment to helping you position the customer squarely in the center of your business model by weaving their true voices throughout your company's decision making.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-84463-1 (9781119844631)
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Additional editions

Janelle Estes | Andy MacMillan
User Tested
How the World's Top Companies Use Human Insight to Create Great Experiences
E-Book
02/2022
1st Edition
Wiley-Scrivener
€18.99
Available for download

Janelle Estes | Andy MacMillan
User Tested
How the World's Top Companies Use Human Insight to Create Great Experiences
E-Book
02/2022
1st Edition
Wiley-Scrivener
€18.99
Available for download
Persons
JANELLE ESTES, Chief Insights Officer at UserTesting, helps leading organizations build human insight into culture and process. As a speaker and thought leader on customer experience, Janelle has guest lectured at Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Northeastern University.
ANDY MACMILLAN is CEO of UserTesting, the world's leading user testing and human insight platform. He is a former product executive at Oracle and Salesforce. He understands the critical role human insight plays in building world class products and solutions on a global scale.
ANDY MACMILLAN is CEO of UserTesting, the world's leading user testing and human insight platform. He is a former product executive at Oracle and Salesforce. He understands the critical role human insight plays in building world class products and solutions on a global scale.
Content
List of Figures
Preface
Part 1: The Challenge: Understanding Customers as Human, Not Data Points
Chapter 1: Competing in the Experience Economy: Many Companies Succeed Despite Sub-Par Customer Understanding
Chapter 2: The Missing Dimension: Why & How Human Insight Powers Great Experiences
Part 2: The Solution: Human Insight Powers Customer-Centric Actions
Chapter 3: What're You Trying to Answer? Matching A User Test Approach to Your Desired Learnings
Chapter 4: You Are Not Your Customer: How to Get Access to the Perspectives That Matter
Chapter 5: Capture & Analyze: Sifting Through the Noise to Find the Signal
Chapter 6: Take Action on Human Insight: Decide Where and How to Apply Your Learnings
Part 3: The Playbook: How Human Insight Fits Into Your Business
Chapter 7: Product Development: Creating Products People Love
Chapter 8: Marketing: Getting Inside the Heads of Your Buyers
Chapter 9: Every Team Owns The Experience: Optimizing the Holistic Customer Journey
Part 4: The Culture Shift: Applying Human Insight at Scale
Chapter 10: Bottom Up: The Grassroots Movement
Chapter 11: Top Down: How Executives Can Support and Model Change
One Final Note
Index
Preface
Part 1: The Challenge: Understanding Customers as Human, Not Data Points
Chapter 1: Competing in the Experience Economy: Many Companies Succeed Despite Sub-Par Customer Understanding
Chapter 2: The Missing Dimension: Why & How Human Insight Powers Great Experiences
Part 2: The Solution: Human Insight Powers Customer-Centric Actions
Chapter 3: What're You Trying to Answer? Matching A User Test Approach to Your Desired Learnings
Chapter 4: You Are Not Your Customer: How to Get Access to the Perspectives That Matter
Chapter 5: Capture & Analyze: Sifting Through the Noise to Find the Signal
Chapter 6: Take Action on Human Insight: Decide Where and How to Apply Your Learnings
Part 3: The Playbook: How Human Insight Fits Into Your Business
Chapter 7: Product Development: Creating Products People Love
Chapter 8: Marketing: Getting Inside the Heads of Your Buyers
Chapter 9: Every Team Owns The Experience: Optimizing the Holistic Customer Journey
Part 4: The Culture Shift: Applying Human Insight at Scale
Chapter 10: Bottom Up: The Grassroots Movement
Chapter 11: Top Down: How Executives Can Support and Model Change
One Final Note
Index