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UX Design and Competitor Research

User experience (UX) is a person's emotions and attitudes about using a particular product, system or service. Design and Research are related to the core functions of how customers interact and react in the face of the digital platform for your business. 


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The Need for Good UX Design for a Business

User Experience (UX) Design is the term used to describe the process of enhancing user satisfaction by creating products that provide relevant and meaningful experiences. By improving the accessibility and usability of a product, the satisfaction of interacting with the product is enhanced.


Whether it’s a website, software or any product for an end-user, the objective of UX Design is to generate an enjoyable, seamless experience for the user. 


The increased customer satisfaction generated through UX design means small businesses help attract and retain customers, sell a greater number of products and remain more competitive and profitable. Users expectations on their experience of products are on the rise. Consequently, to remain competitive, businesses need to implement UX design into their products to ensure their customers have the seamless, pleasurable experience they have come to expect.


UX is an important component of website design, with users expecting an easy-to-navigate, seamless and pleasurable journey as they browse through a site, whether on a PC, laptop or mobile phone. A poor UX on websites, such as delays to loading times, can quickly result in a potential customer navigating away from the site. 


There is a concern that many businesses are getting caught up in the mystery of what good UX really means to them.  The first stage, however, is to understand what benefits your company can achieve with a UX strategy.  Talk to us today and find out about the 7 steps to UX happiness that your business can climb.

Why UX Research?

 UX research encompasses a variety of investigative methods used to add context and insight to the design process. Unlike other sub-fields of UX, research did not develop out of some other field or fields. It merely translated from other forms of research. 

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7 Steps to ux happiness

Plan

Create the strategy behind the design

Discover

Understand the users needs with UX research

Explore

Sketch the first ideas

Define

Flesh out the wireframes 

Design

Create the first visual designs

Validate

Trial and Test the first designs

Deliver

Deliver the end design to the marketing team

the importance of ux

The UX Honeycomb Strategy

Technology is changing rapidly. This signifies not only technological advancements but also a drive to improve user experience (UX). Online user experience refers to the quality of user interaction in an online environment.


Digital marketers should strive to provide users with a positive and rewarding user experience. UX consists of a number of elements, which are depicted in the UX Honeycomb diagram presented below

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The honeycomb helps to find a sweet spot between the various areas of a good user experience. Each facet of user experience design can be defined by this diagram as such: Usable: The system in which the product or service is delivered needs to be simple and easy to use. 

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Working with a website UX design for a freelance designer simply had to get this right...


Our work showcased the simplicity but also the direction that needed to take place to keep this site fresh and straightforward.  Take a look here

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Why run a competitive research strategy for your business?

Don't copy your competition, improve on their offer

You’ve likely heard the saying “Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies even closer.” 


When it comes to conducting a competitive analysis, that’s not the whole story.


In any industry, keeping your enemy close won’t prevent you from getting ambushed. Sometimes you don’t even know who your enemies are. The “enemy,” after all, could be acquired by Amazon and put you out of business overnight. Or Google could build a competing product in your market.


Studying the ‘enemy’ can help you understand the battlefield. It can help you identify where the “enemies” are and how they’re approaching the business. It can help you discover strategic areas where you can position yourself for a win. 


A competitive analysis is a process of identifying your competitors and evaluating their strategies to determine their strengths and weaknesses relative to your own business, product, and service. The goal of the competitive analysis is to gather the intelligence necessary to find a line of attack and develop your go-to-market strategy. 


Competitive research will not help you fund your next product or determine your direct marketing spend, but it will, however, help you develop a high-impact go-to-market (GTM) strategy. 


How to Conduct a Competitor research strategy

Segmentation

Segmentation

Segmentation

Break down your potential customer audience into groups based on subjects of your choice.   

Criteria

Segmentation

Segmentation

 Set the criteria that need to be followed to identify your competition. For example, a publisher would track content publishing platforms as competition. 

Competition

Segmentation

Competition

 Start with 5 main competitors to focus on that are based on your segmentation and criteria settings – but be aware of more that can be added over time.

Description

Description

Competition

  Take the Google description of the business you are researching and simplify for research needs.

Statistics

Description

Statistics

 Outline the basic statistics that matter to your brand – website ranking, customer profiles, social media numbers etc.  

Strengths

Description

Statistics

 List the strengths of the competition based on your own SWOT analysis.

Weaknesses

Weaknesses

Weaknesses

 List the weaknesses of the competition based on your own SWOT analysis.

Review

Weaknesses

Weaknesses

  Simplified review of the findings, as well as a personal statement on your own experience of the competitive brands.

COMPETITIVE RESEARCH

The 4 Types of Competition

Economists have identified four types of competition - perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly.


Marketers recognise one type - those who are looking to attract your same customer user base


OUR competitive research offering

Business and Company Metrics

Review the competitive company, its funding, revenue and customers

Product and Service Review

Understanding product or service features, pricing, perks and technology usages 

Customers and Awareness

Define the share of voice, sentiment, key topics of interest, geographical appeal and the social media channels used

Review the Marketing and PR

Measuring the SEO, Social, Advertising, Content and Customer Service strength and outlining the weaknesses in Retention, Influencers and Sales Performance 

Competitor Research Case study

Next Step Education

OVERVIEW

Project is to research and provide analysis of the main competition for the parent education information market in the UK. This report will focus on similar SaaS-based products that target UK parents with information, resources and material on Schools via search sourcing. 


GOALS

  1. Find, source and evaluate main competitors 
  2. Breakdown analysis for marketing and promotion review 


SPECIFICATIONS


  1. Business and Company Metrics - Review the competitive company, it's funding, revenue and customers
  2. Product and Service Review - An understanding product or service features, pricing, perks and technology usages
  3. Customers and Awareness - Define the share of voice, sentiment, key topics of      interest, geographical appeal and the social media channels used
  4. Review the Marketing and PR - Measuring the SEO, Social, Advertising, Content and      Customer Service strength and outlining the weaknesses in Retention,      Influencers and Sales Performance


SEGMENTATION AND CRITERIA 


Segmentation


Break down the potential customer audience into groups based on subjects of our choice. 

  1. Parents - Independent Schools
  2. Parents - State Schools 
  3. Schools - Type that the competitor promotes 


Criteria

 

Set the criteria that need to be followed to identify our competition.

  1. Offer educational services to parents in the UK
  2. Charge schools to take part 


COMPETITION


Outline 10 key competitive websites for review based on similar keyword research, backlink reporting, end target market and customer feedback. 


Research Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of each competitive platform to compare against the Next Step Education product. 


RESULTS


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