All the services that I've described here – Usability, Usefulness, Functionality, and Seamlessness – are essential to successful interactions with visitors, prospects, customers, and users. Optimizing each of those human-computer interactions is necessary but not sufficient – if you leave out any one of them, you sub-optimize or break the others. To marry right-brain, humanistic, qualitative, and behavioral approaches above with the left-brain, quantitative, and data-driven, I'll show you how to validate all findings with User Experience (UX) Analytics. This discipline includes web analytics, process metrics, server statistics, and proprietary and innovative deep-data methods. This process facilitates thorough characterization of individual errors, bottlenecks, failures, and mysteries, as well as blanket-coverage of collective behavior of users over large numbers of visits and transactions.
Here are the key benefits and outcomes for this data-driven discipline, that you'll learn to apply to your systems and all human-computer interactions of your users:
- Quantifies behavior of the entire population of visitors, prospects, users
- Finds the biggest opportunities to grow revenue and customer delight
- Prioritizes limited budget, staffing, and attention on biggest bang
- Usable, Useful, Functional, Seamless are necessary, but not sufficient
- Marries the right-brain, humanistic, behavioral with data and metrics
- Monitors, tracks, characterizes volumes of user sessions and paths
- Finds failures, bottlenecks, abandons – wherever user friction is found
- Integrates Quantitative with the Qualitative of Usable, Useful, Seamless