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Big brands go direct to the consumer in a crisis

  • Behavioral Science, Business UX Leaders, Consumer products, Customer Experience, E-commerce, Psychology and Human Behavior, Strategy, Technology, Vendor-Client Relationships

During the current pandemic, some of the world’s biggest brands started online stores. But will the popularity of this purchasing model last as shops start to reopen?

Article by Nick Easen
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Big brands go direct to the consumer in a crisis
  • Spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, some of the worlds biggest brands are opening online stores serving products direct to customers’ homes
  • PepsiCo, Nestlé and Heinz all launched direct-to-consumer (D2C) offerings in lockdown, appealing to those who couldn’t leave their home, but were dead set on their favorite ketchup or kombucha brand.
  • Newly hatched D2C brands are now creating their own databases, analyzing behavioral and sales data to maximize marketing and profits. They are A/B testing – comparative user-experience research – new offers online and using their websites as labs for product research and development.
  • What the pandemic has taught many companies is D2C e-commerce isn’t just for smarter speciality startups that don’t want legacy retail and big overheads; it’s for all brands looking to drive preference, loyalty and repeat sales through a directly owned relationship.
  • “We believe there will be a ‘lockdown loyalty effect’. Consumers will remember the brands and retailers that got them through the darkest lockdown days,” Hugh Fletcher, global head of innovation at Wunderman Thompson Commerce concludes.
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These are the UI/UX trends you need to keep an eye out for in 2021

  • Design, Marketing and Brand, Strategy, The rise of design, Visual Design

What are the trends that product innovators and product designers need to look out for in the coming year? Let’s take a firm look.

Article by Ather Nawaz
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Using Data to Build Better Products

  • Analytics and Tracking, Consumer products, Decision Architecture, Development, Product design, Remote Research, Research Methods and Techniques, Strategy, The Evolution of Research

Great products aren’t magically conceived. They’re molded over time by observing and understanding people in order to identify core needs and thoughtfully solve for them.

Article by Meghan Wenzel
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Human factors tips for communicating public health guidance

  • Behavioral Science, Content Strategy, Design, Design Theory, Human factors, Storytelling, Strategy

Determining effective response protocols and practices is a complex task that falls to medical and public health professionals across the globe.

Article by Jonathan Kendler
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