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UI/UX plays a significant role in any brand’s success. It can help you reach new heights but only if you deliver a good service. This article takes you through the latest UI/UX trends and its benefits to help you understand it better.

What is the difference between UX and UI design

Both mobiles and desktops have a majority of digital users onboard and both the platforms have their own significance. For instance, desktops serve the purpose of quick access to web pages and mobile phones are ideal for creating engagement. Aesthetic graphics and engaging content must be on point while designing a digital presence but another important thing that most of the designers overlook is good user experience and interface. But what exactly is UI and UX?

What is UX?

UX is the abbreviated form of User Experience and it is based on the idea of creating a system that provides the users with the best experience. It aims at turning your customers into loyal customers by offering a positive experience to them. UX is accountable for a user’s journey through the mobile app or website which eventually becomes the deciding factor for the success of the business.

What is UI?

UI is an abbreviation used for User Interface and it’s the way using which users can interact with any mobile application. User interface design for mobile applications focuses on delivering easy, enjoyable and effective interactions between users and the application. In IT, User Interface refers to any device that allows the users to interact with monitors, screens or mobile devices. The primary goal which UI aims for is to provide the best interaction possible.

What are benefits of UX/UI

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  1. Encourages the use of interaction: Creating content is not a hard task. But creating content that people would like to interact with, is the real challenge. Be it in the form of text, images, advertisements, or call to action, everything must lure the user. There are several techniques to encourage user interaction such as producing the content that appeals to the targeted audience. It can also be about personalised features based on consumer behaviour or things they like. People prefer a software that has consistency in design, is predictable, and comfortable to use.

 

  1. Generates loyalty: A good user experience can create customer loyalty for your brand. An application or website that offers easy functionality and backed by great service will make your users use it again and again. The designer can create a Customer Journey i.e. CJM Map to achieve it. It will help the designer to map the entire journey of the user through the website or the mobile application. This journey must be thoroughly tested to make sure that a user’s interaction with the product is as smooth and easy as possible. It’s more like putting the design team in the shoes of the user and thinking from their perspective.

 

  1. Generates recommendations: An interactive user experience design is the key to encouraging word of mouth recommendations i.e. it should be good to an extent that the users can’t stop talking about it. A well-designed site or application with the ease of use, offering great features and usefulness will encourage people to tell others about the service. A part of user experience is meant to make sharing easy and a free recommendation from a user itself is way more impactful than a paid advertisement.

 

  1. Reduces development costs: A stellar user experience helps you keep a project within budget by lowering development costs along with extensive user research, prototyping, and usability testing. By doing this, you can ensure that development time is targeted on the areas of functionality that matter. This focused approach helps you create better initial design specs, reduces the risk of feature creep, and provides more relevant content. It greatly erases the need for last-minute redesigns and enhancements.

 

  1. Reduces internal costs: User experience is an end-user focused approach that concentrates on the design and development, keeping in mind what users want and not what developers think they want. It not only saves money on development costs but it also helps businesses to wisely use their internal resources. For instance, the design will help you identify the products liked or wanted by people. This would help the sales and marketing department to put their efforts on profitable products instead of putting it on the less profitable ones. Moreover, it reduces the need for manual intervention and hence reduces the support costs eventually.

 

What are latest UX/UI trends

 

  1. Animation: It makes web pages or mobile applications more appealing to users as it connects with the customers more than any other design. This tool is getting popular amongst the designers as it allows them to create a positive impact on the users. Earlier, we used to have flat logos, icons, buttons, etc. but now they are getting replaced with animated buttons, icons, and even logos.

 

  1. Digital illustrations for the web: Custom digital illustrations are trending in the field of UI and UX. These digital illustrations are generally used on web interfaces and add colours, designs while making the information more evident and interesting. They are widely used by blogs and service websites to beautify their website and present sober information in a modern and fancy way.

 

  1. 3D designs: It helps you create more impactful design and it’s already being used in many games and movies with high functionality. A combination of animation and 3D is going to be the next trend in UI and UX.

 

  1. Split Screen: The idea of using two screens simultaneously appeals to a lot of users. It not only looks cool but also allows you to gather more information at the same time.
  2. Voice UI: Voice assistants like Google Home and Alexa have taken over the entire digital world of virtual assistants. People use these services widely to get most of their work done irrespective of its origin i.e. small or big. Performing tasks using your voice is a lot more convenient than operating a device with buttons and making it do the same.

 

NDN Group build a chatbot with personality for hotel group

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At NDN Group, we help our clients map out UX/UI to understand their customers, define customer experience journeys and innovate with a strong focus on customers’ needs and awe-inspiring insights about them. From user personas and customer journeys to content strategy, wireframe to website and app design, we help our business clients tell their stories and engage with customers for scaling businesses.

NDN Group’s digital consultancy, New Digital Noise, has been helping a global hotel group to develop an AI-powered chatbot with persona and personality traits, thereby creating immersive and fascinating experiences to its customers. The bot can help guests make suite booking and restaurant reservations as well answer questions on thrilling entertainment and hotel facilities.

To create persona and personality for the bot, our team has gathered insights to understand more about the hotel group from its brand persona, daily operations, gaming and entertainment facilities, world-class dining experience and luxurious and bespoke services offered to customers.

Creating a chatbot conversation flow and putting to the test

Our UX/UI team has arranged empathy sessions for the hotel to learn their customers genuine needs. With our five-stage process – Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test, we empathise with the targeted customers through researches, interviews and sharing. We understand customers’ emotional needs, discover human touchpoints and garner insights on the needs of customers in different segments. Our team has created solid solutions to address users’ needs and built a prototype chatbot for testing/validation to excel to entire UX process.

Also, we have embraced six core human needs – Certainly, Variety, Significance, Love, Growth and Contribution – in the process. Then we have clearly defined the background, personalities, tone of voice and manner of the bot.

In the development of the chatbot script, we imagine how the AI-powered chatbot talks to customers based on its persona.  Based on conversational diagram, we have imagined the bot talking to customers in real time when writing scripts. We listened to characters or people who are similar to the bot persona. We try to avoid dead ends and leaving the user hanging. It mimics what we would hear from a concierge in the luxurious hotel. Finally, we have developed a prototype for the chatbot and fine-tuned scripts. We have interacted with the bot to excel its dialogue flow and make it immersive to customers, ensuring that the bot is helpful and meet customers’ needs and expectations.

Conclusion

Our User Experience/User Interface design services are thoughtfulengagingusercentricWe work with our clients to define their business goalsand every industry is different. The trends of UX and UI have changed a lot and it will continue to do so. But one thing which doesn’t change with time is the quality of UX and UI. To derive better results and satisfy your customers, it is important to offer them an outstanding UX/UI services. Drop us a line at info@ndngroup.com to learn more about how our UX/UI services fit your business needs.

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1. AJ Hackett Macau Tower

Following our brand-building effort on WeChat and Weibo previously, we’ve helped the bungee and adventure sports operator to launch an account on popular live-streaming app TikTok, achieving up to 1.9 million exposures. Besides ad promotions, we’ve been managing the daily postings of the TikTok account, including video editing and KOL collaborations.

We also helped AJ Hackett launch a mini-program, a sub-application on WeChat to drive a higher conversion rate. Users can now purchase tickets using WeChat Pay on mobile, play games and learn more about bungee jumping within WeChat without having to be directed elsewhere.

2. Cigna

The insurance brand redefined its lead generation strategy by using Facebook ads to direct traffic to both its official site and the Cigna Smart Health lifestyle blog. Another approach involved using Facebook retargeting to display ads to consumers who have previously visited Cigna’s websites. The team also tapped into Facebook’s lookalike audience function to reach new audience using existing audience data.

Besides social media, our omnichannel marketing approach for Cigna includes the monthly e-newsletters to distribute content from the Smart Health blog.

3. uSMART Securities

In September, online securities brokerage uSMART banks on a holistic online strategy for its full-scale brand launch campaign targeting young adults. Facebook blog posts are used to educate its audience about investment, its brand and product offering. Facebook retargeting has also been implemented at later stages to boost conversion for website visitors.

For search, we’ve been improving uSMART’s SEO organic ranking on search engine results. A/B testing is also carried out for SEM in tandem to optimize ad results.

4. SQM

Real estate agents SQM Global Properties targeted prospective property buyers who are looking for information on digital channels as opposed to traditional print ads and trade shows. The online strategy encompassed SEO, media placement and geo-targeting. SQM also utilized social media and messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp for Business functions to engage with buyers.

5. Meraas

Targeting Chinese audience, we helped Dubai-based conglomerate Meraas launch a series of splash ads across 60 online platforms including Tik Tok, Baidu, WPS and SelfieCity for a giveaway contest, promoting UAE as a travel destination and a great place to live and work. The campaign has garnered fantastic results, generating over 10 million impressions and 2 million click-through rates.

6. KATE

Going beyond social media content creation, the Japanese makeup brand rolled out a geo-targeting campaign to promote a special event in March. Location-based ads are more personalized, relevant and thereby leading to a higher conversion rate.

Moreover, we collaborated with one of the most popular online magazines for young women in Hong Kong for a product launch campaign with a professional model shoot.

7. KURZ

German hot stamping technology brand KURZ launched a Chinese New Year red packet giveaway campaign on WeChat that incorporated the hong bao (red packet) and shaking trigger functions of the platform. We developed a festive-themed H5 page for Kurz using interactive graphics and videos for users to share on WeChat moments. The H5 feature allows data tracking and includes several performance indicators such as views and frequency of interactions.

8. McCafé

McCafé launched a geo-targeting campaign across key business districts in Hong Kong to push ads to mobile users, closing the gap between online and offline channels. The consumer data collected provides insights on shopping behavior and the best time to push the ads.

The second phase of the campaign involved Facebook push notifications on sales to the IDs captured from geo-targeting. A/B testing was conducted to boost click-through rates and ROI through better user experience (UX).

9. Galaxy Macau

We’ve worked with the world-class casino resort in developing a powerful loyalty app with superior UX, serving a range of target groups across all stages in the customer journey. Since 2017, our UX team has been coordinating the project from initial user research, design, prototyping, app launch to ongoing maintenance and feature updates until today. The next phase of the project will kick start in early 2020.

10. Pilot

Pilot intends to create some brand differentiation for itself to foster top of the mind awareness. We carried out a series of rebranding exercise for Pilot’s product lines across its owned media through Facebook. The campaign generated significant brand mentions and share of voice across earned media to help Pilot build its digital presence.

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What is a chatbot and how to use it for business?

The development of artificial intelligence is now in full swing and chatbots are only a splash on a huge wave of progress. Nowadays, the number of people using messaging apps namely WhatsApp and Slack Skype is soaring, Facebook Messenger alone has more than 1.2 billion users per month.

What is a chatbot?

A chatbot is a computer program that allows humans to interact with technology using a variety of input methods such as voice, text, gesture and touch, 24/7 365.

For several years chatbots were typically used in customer service environments but are now being used in a variety of other roles within enterprises to improve customer experience and business efficiencies.

Known by a variety of different names such as a conversational AI bot, AI assistant, intelligent virtual assistant, virtual customer assistant, digital assistant, conversational agent, virtual agent, conversational interface and more, chatbots are growing in popularity.

But just as chatbots have a variety of different names, they also have varying degrees of intelligence.

A basic chatbot might be little more than a front-end solution for answering standard FAQs.

Chatbots built using some of the bot frameworks currently available may offer slightly more advanced features like slot filling or other simple transactional capability, such as taking pizza orders.

But, it’s only advanced conversational AI chatbots that have the intelligence and capability to deliver the sophisticated chatbot experience most enterprises are looking to deploy.

Online chatbots save time and efforts by automating customer support. Gartner forecasts that over 85% of customer interactions will be handled without a human by 2020. With the spread of messengers, virtual assistants that imitate human conversations for solving various tasks are becoming sought-after. Chinese WeChat bots can set medical appointments, call a taxi, send money to friends, check in for a flight and many other.

However, the opportunities provided by chatbot systems go far beyond giving responses to customers’ inquiries. They are used for other business tasks, like collecting data about users, conducting in-depth analytics and insights on customer behaviour and accelerating revenue opportunities.

Why are Chatbots so Popular?

Smartphones, wearables and the Internet of things (IoT) have changed the technology landscape in recent years. As digital artefacts got smaller, the computing power inside has become greater.

But mobile apps and data-heavy activities don’t go hand in hand. Wading through complicated menus isn’t the fast and seamless user experience businesses need to deliver today.

In addition, consumers are no longer content to be restricted by the communication methods chosen by an organization. They want to interface with technology across a wide number of channels.

Chatbots offer a way to solve these issues by allowing customers to simply ask for whatever they need, across multiple channels, wherever they are, night or day.

The development of artificial intelligence is now in full swing and chatbots are only a splash on a huge wave of progress. Nowadays, the number of people using messaging apps namely WhatsApp and Slack Skype is soaring, Facebook Messenger alone has more than 1.2 billion users per month.

How do Chatbots Work?

On a simple level, a human interacts with a chatbot.

If voice is used, the chatbot first turns the voice data input into text (using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology). Text only chatbots such as text-based messaging services skip this step.

The chatbot then analyses the text input, considers the best response and delivers that back to the user. The chatbot’s reply output may be delivered in any number of ways such as written text, voice via Text to Speech (TTS) tools, or perhaps by completing a task.

It’s worth noting that, understanding humans isn’t easy for a machine. The subtle and nuanced way humans communicate is a very complex task to recreate artificially, which is why chatbots use several natural language principles:

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Natural Language Processing is used to split the user input into sentences and words. It also standardizes the text through a series of techniques, for example, converting it all to lowercase or correcting spelling mistakes before determining if the word is an adjective or verb – it’s at this stage where other factors such as sentiment are also considered.

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

Natural Language Understanding helps the chatbot understand what the user said using both general and domain specific language objects such as lexicons, synonyms and themes. These are then used in conjunction with algorithms or rules to construct dialogue flows that tell the chatbot how to respond.

Natural Language Generation (NLG)

Delivering a meaningful, personalized experience beyond pre-scripted responses requires natural language generation. This enables the chatbot to interrogate data repositories, including integrated back-end systems and third-party databases, and to use that information in creating a response.

What are chatbots delivering?

A chatbot is basically a computer program that can interact with humans over the internet. Their simulation of human language and behavior provides several benefits that can be used in business.

Provide Greater Customer Experience

The main benefit of using chatbots in business is that they give greater customer satisfaction. Customers who pull up website can ask questions and get answers right away. If they have product questions they may get the answers they need to complete sales. This can further increase business profits.

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Frustrated customers who don’t get quick answers may leave website and never return. Chatbots can eliminate that scenario and help you keep your customers.

Increase Customer Base

There is another benefit of using chatbots in business. They may help enterprises reach more people which can increase your customer base.

Since chatbots can be used in many applications, enterprises can take advantage of that to help businesses grow. Chatbots can answer multiple questions at the same time as well.

Streamline Procedures and Automation

Other benefits of using chatbots in business are that they help businesses streamline procedures and automation. When used on website they can provide fast, automated answers to most questions. Their use prevents customers from waiting a day or longer to receive responses as they would have in the past. This enables business to serve greater numbers of people while saving costs.

NDN Group and Mobinology’s chatbot service and solution

NDN Group and Mobinology, world-class business software developer, has forged global partnership to deliver enterprise-grade chatbot solution to empower enterprises to accelerate business growth. Powered by leading artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies, the industry-leading and end-to-end chatbot solution enables global and regional enterprises with secure, scalable and agile operations, combined with machine learning and data analytics capabilities. The all-in-one chatbot solution defines new pathways for enterprises to deliver seamless and personalized customer experience.

NDN Group and Mobinology’s intelligent chatbot offers distinctive capabilities at scale. We design immersive dialogue flow to chart out extraordinary dialogue and conversational flow to create high-impact and personalised customer experience. We also curate tone of voice and manner to reflect enterprises’ branding for creating maximum customer engagement and loyalty, and bot personality and persona to interact with users and immerse them in conversational journey.

The self-intelligent bot learns from the inputs it experiences and garners deep understanding on the intent behind customer requests as well as provide smart answers. Also, the bot augments the importance of Big Data through their automated data collection that enables enterprises to conduct in-depth analysis on the conversational journey and understand end-user behaviour. The Natural Language Processing (NLP) powers all forms of language recognition including Cantonese and switch languages to enable enterprises extend global reach.

The bot uses their wealth of knowledge to provide comprehensive answers to queries. It is also specially designed to parse documents, crawl website content and convert into rule-defined structure data. It is empowered to use real-time information for accelerating revenue opportunities automatically after conversation with customers.

Types of chatbots

Depending on how the specific bots were programmed, we can divide them into two large groups: working according to pre-prepared commands – simple chatbot and AI-powered chatbot.

 

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Simple chatbots work based on pre-written keywords that they understand. Each of these commands must be written by the developer separately using regular expressions or other forms of string analysis.

Smart chatbots rely on artificial intelligence when they communicate with users. Instead of pre-prepared answers, the robot responds with adequate suggestions on the topic. In addition, all the words said by the customers are recorded for later processing.

Many business owners are beginning to understand what benefits chatbots can bring to them. This technology is still in an early stage, its capabilities continue increasing and the best chatbots have yet to be created. Invest in building a chatbot for your business and be at the forefront of innovation.

Enquires on NDN Group and Mobinology’s chatbot solution:

NDN Group email: info@ndngroup.com 

Mobinology email: info@mobinology.com 

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What is geo-targeting

Location-based technology – namely location data, geo-targeting and geofilters – is opening up a world of possibilities for marketers. Yet it is also complicated as new capabilities and use cases seem to emerge every day. With the goal of breaking down some of the most important “geo” concepts to provide a better understanding of the basics and a jumping off point for exploring how far the power of location may take us.

What does geo-targeting mean?

Geo-targeting is the practice of delivering content to users based on their geographic locations. This can be done on the city via IP address or device ID or even through GPS signals and geo-fencing.

Marketers geotarget users on their mobile devices, making it easier to deliver relevant and engaging ad content. The idea is that the more relevant an ad or offer is, the more likely it is to drive sales up sharply for businesses.

How does geo-targeting apply?

The central idea behind geo-targeting is that understanding consumer real-time. Location helps marketers achieve an ultimate goal of delivering the right message to precisely the right people at exactly the right time.

Geo-targeting doesn’t have to be solely based on a consumer’s real-time location. Locations or businesses a customer has visited recently can maker marketers accurately predict their interests and intent and therefore adding targeting based on their location can be essential to delivering a captivating message.

For NDN Group, we have worked with McCafé – owned by Mcdonald’s – that piloted coffee delivery service in Hong Kong, exclusively available on the McCafé App. We have helped McCafé to launch a large-scale advertising campaign on social media with geo-targeting, an advertising effort combining online and offline technology based on geographic location.

We have activated seamless touch points in specific areas in Hong Kong to identify target audience in three core business districts – Central, Causeway Bay, and Quarry Bay. Seamless touch points were placed at all the McCafé branches in the above locations, plus some of the nearby commercial buildings and competitor stores, gaining more data on insightful analysis over competitors and mapping out ads campaigns. Whenever someone carrying a mobile device passes by one of the touchpoints, anonymized data of that device will be captured instantly. We’ve captured over 500,000 device ID. Then we pushed McCafé offer “Buy 4 coffee, get 2 free” via Facebook to target audience. We have also conducted A/B testing to maximize ROI and to refine our creative designs and improve user experience.

Meanwhile, we have worked with fast food franchise Subway on the promotion of Everyday Value, a combo launched to compete with fellow fast food chain’s meal set deals. With some 20 stores in Hong Kong, Subway was set for an effective online campaign that reached out to the right customers in the right place with the help of geo-targeting. 

We have activated seamless touch points at 18 of Subway stores and some of its nearby competitor brick and mortar stores, collecting anonymised data from the mobile phones of visitors every day. This system effectively identifies potential customers and classifies them into different segments, allowing us to re-target ads on Google Display Network, Facebook, Line and Weibo accordingly. 

Why geo-targeting is the key to greater ROI

Geo-targeting is key to greater ROI as it offers a personalized customer experience, delivering ads, offers and shopping information to an overwhelming number of high-potential customers. The technology monetizes online social networks and offline location data to drive brand engagement and actual sales at the same time.

Throughout geo-targeting, businesses lure consumers in a highly targeted area rather than wasting money on people outside region. Consumers generally want ads customized to their specific location.

When consumers want to know more about a business, they expect to find them on the major social networks – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. This boosts credibility and trust. Make choosing you easier by being visible and attainable.

With a location-based marketing platform, businesses have the power to build these custom audiences to achieve their goal to deliver the right message to precisely the right people at exactly the right time. A great geo-targeting campaign requires excellent creative and messaging. Without a relevant and engaging message, audience targeting may produce less impactful results.

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How Digital Transformation is Enhancing Customer Experience https://newdigitalnoise.com/how-digital-transformation-is-enhancing-customer-experience/ https://newdigitalnoise.com/how-digital-transformation-is-enhancing-customer-experience/#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2019 22:15:49 +0000 https://newdigitalnoise.ndnsocial.com.hk/?p=3933 The post How Digital Transformation is Enhancing Customer Experience appeared first on New Digital Noise.

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Digital transformation is forcing enterprises to change their business strategies and adapt to the new market models. Digital technology has transformed customers’ habits. Mobile devices, chatbot, apps, machine learning, automation allow customers to get what they want almost exactly at the moment they need it. Customers expect relevant content in relation to what they’re doing and on the device of their choosing. Enterprises must embrace technology to deliver a good customer experience.

In this era of disruptive technological change, products and services that are cutting edge one day are outdated the next. In this context, the unmatched customer experience a company offers is increasingly its differentiator. Advanced digital technologies have caused a shift in customer expectations, leading to the sharp rise of new kind of modern buyers. Due to the opportunities that rise from using modern technology, consumers rank businesses based on digital customer experience. Digital first requires entrepreneurs to rethink how they better interact with their customers and offer good customer support.

Mr. Andy Ann, Founder and CEO of NDN Group, said, “It is of utmost priority for entrepreneurs and business leaders to fully understand the customers’ unique needs and enhance their customer experience through the adoption of digital marketing and technologies. Businesses have to deploy right technologies to understand and get a whole picture of why a customer made a certain decision as well as garner consumer insight.”

Leverage right technology to power up digital strategies

Having the right technology to power up digital strategies is fundamental in business world. By easily connecting SaaS applications such as customer databases, Big Data analytics, web and mobile apps, companies can digitally record all touch-points to create a holistic view of customers and deliver customer experience strategy.

At NDN Group, one such campaign we have successfully launched is for Blue, a digital insurer partnership by Aviva, Hillhouse Capital and Tencent. We have deployed 360-degree touchpoints covering social media, video production, web/mobile production, SEO/SEM, as well as innovative technologies namely cognitive ads, an AI chatbot capable of suggesting interest-based offers to engage users individually and generate sales leads. Cognitive Ad helps us understand consumers’ needs and interests by deploying the latest AI-enabled interactive advertising on websites and WeChat.

With our Cognitive Ad technology, we use massive consumer data and a powerful AI-engine to build industry specific ads that are easy to implement and customize. Our ready-to-go and pre-configured dialogues allow your campaigns to run smarter, engage customers faster and improve conversions over 300%.

Seamless omni-channel customer experience

Technology has empowered customers to get what they want, whenever they want, and how they want it. Omni-channel customer experience involves using multiple channels to engage customers. When businesses use social media, blogs, the web, videos and other channels to engage customers, they must ensure delivery of a seamless message across all touchpoints to maximize customer experience.

In fact, content types are versatile and diverse content can be specially curated to fit into different channels. Sites like YouTube will provide a better video sharing experience, Pinterest offers a brilliant experience to users interested in product photographs and other kinds of images, and you can find other website aimed at other types of contents. A blog is a very versatile tool, as it allows you to publish all kinds of contents, from text contents to embedded videos, audio images.

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What is Digital Transformation https://newdigitalnoise.com/what-is-digital-transformation/ https://newdigitalnoise.com/what-is-digital-transformation/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:42:52 +0000 https://newdigitalnoise.ndnsocial.com.hk/?p=3920 The post What is Digital Transformation appeared first on New Digital Noise.

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Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, changing how you operate and deliver value to customers. It is the process of using digital technologies to create new business processes, models, culture, and customer experiences to meet ever-changing market demands.

Digital transformation is imperative for all businesses, from the startups to the giant enterprises. Thinking, planning and building digitally sets your business up to be agile, flexible, and ready to grow. What’s not clear to many enterprises is what digital transformation means.

Technology plays a crucial role in an organization’s’ ability to evolve with the market and continually increase value to customers. Organizations are in different places on the road to digital transformation. One of the hardest questions in digital transformation is how to get over the initial humps from vision to execution.

What is digital transformation?
As digital transformation will look different for every company, it can be difficult to pinpoint a definition that applies to all. Digital transformation can be defined as the integration of digital technology into all areas of business operations and delivering good customer experiences. The Agile Elephant emphasizes the ways businesses need to adjust their practices: “Digital transformation involves a change in leadership, mindset, business models, and digital assets to improve the experience of the organization’s employees, customers, suppliers, partners and stakeholders.”Andy Ann, Founder and CEO of NDN Group, said, “Every digital transformation is going to begin and end with the customer experiences. Businesses don’t transform by choice because it is expensive and risky. Businesses go through transformation when they have to innovate and evolve. Seamless customer experience is one of the most important discriminating factors for how a business will perform and succeed.”

Why does digital transformation matter?
A business may take on digital transformation for various reasons. But by far, the most likely reason is that they have to: It’s a survival issue for many. Digital transformation does not simply mean changing how you do business or creating new types of businesses. It’s about keeping the core competence, and using faster and better ways to instantly access customer data and not trapped somewhere in an archive.

Think of customer service, whether in retail or a call centre. Digitalization changed service forever by making customer records easily and quickly retrievable via automation. Customer service has not changed, but the process of searching customer data and offering a resolution became much more efficient with automation.

For example, deploying an automated customer Chatbot will allow businesses to automate customer service live chat conversations. According to IBM, up to 80% of routine customer service questions could be answered by a simple AI Chatbot. Chatbots can be trained to respond to customer service questions and provide fast solutions, 24/7.

Enterprise leaders have largely gotten the message and are prioritizing accordingly. At NDN, we have deployed and used AI technologies including machine learning and natural language processing for a local bank (Hang Seng Bank), creating a virtual assistant that is able to simulate human-like contextual conversations and interact with the bank’s customers. The Chatbot can communicate in Chinese and English, and can also understand Cantonese as well as the mixing of English and Chinese. Through interacting with customers, the Chatbot will continuously improve their ability to address customer inquiries.

It is widely expected that worldwide spending on technologies services that enable digital transformation will reach US$1.97 trillion in 2022, per the (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Digital Transformation Spending Guide. IDC predicts that digital transformation spending will grow steadily, achieving a five-year compound annual growth rate of 16.7 percent between 2017 and 2022.

IDC predicts that, by 2020, 30 percent of Global 2000 companies will have allocated capital budget equal to at least 10 percent of revenue to fuel their digital strategies. Advanced analytics is the number-one digital investment – with enterprises planning to increase related deployments by 75 percent during the next 12 to 18 months.

Organizations are at different places in the digital transformation journey. Business leaders face pressure to show that digital transformation initiatives and strategies continue to translate to increased agility and speed for the entire organization. Fostering seamless customer experience has become a crucial goal and thus a crucial part of digital transformation.

What does digital transformation framework look like?

Digital transformation changes widely based on an organization’s challenges and demands. Yet, there are a few constants and common themes among published frameworks that all business leaders should consider when initiating digital transformation.

These digital transformation elements are cited in a wide array of aspects over customer experience, operational agility, culture, leadership, workforce enablement and digital integration. Below are a few examples of digital transformation frameworks include:

· MIT Sloan: The Nine Elements of Digital Transformation

· Cognizant: A Framework for Digital Business Transformation

· Ionology: A Step-By-Step Guide to Digital Transformation

· IDEO: The Human-Centered Design Toolkit

While each guide has its own recommendations and varying considerations, leaders should look for those important themes when mapping out their own digital strategy.

Adapt business to leverage digital transformation

Digital transformations have reshaped how companies approach customer service and enhance user experience. The rise of social media has changed service much like it’s changed advertising, marketing, and even sales and customer service. Forward-thinking companies embrace technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data, and social media to extend their service offerings to customers on their platforms.

What happens when Digital Transformation creates Exponential Growth?

It is not that we don’t know exponential growth is coming due to digital transformation. What we misunderstand is the speed at which it comes. At Singularity University, Peter Diamandis talks about the Moore’s Law and the speed of technology accelerating our entire economy. In conclusion, we advise leaders to dive deep into the process of creating powerful tools for scaling the business and stay competitive among competitions.

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How is Digital Marketing Shifting from Fast to Slow? https://newdigitalnoise.com/how-is-digital-marketing-shifting-from-fast-to-slow/ https://newdigitalnoise.com/how-is-digital-marketing-shifting-from-fast-to-slow/#respond Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:02:08 +0000 https://newdigitalnoise.ndnsocial.com.hk/?p=3799 The post How is Digital Marketing Shifting from Fast to Slow? appeared first on New Digital Noise.

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If you have been in the digital marketing space long enough, you will start to realize that many of your digital marketing strategies are not as effective as 5-6 years ago. Conversion rates have gone down, media spending went up, while customers are drifting further and further away from your business and brand.

One big thing that’s missing for most of the businesses that we see in the market is that many of them are focusing on sales funneling, building segmentations and building automation. It doesn’t mean that these marketing tactics don’t work, but if everyone is doing the same thing, how would your customer feel?

Ask yourself and your team two core questions:  “Do we really understand the pain and desire of our customers?” “How can we make our customers happy and successful?” Instead of thinking about building marketing automation and marketing funnels, it’s time for you to focus on building and owning the entire customer journey as well as capturing the entire relationship with your customers. Marketing shouldn’t stop when sales are made, and a business should continue to scale through understanding the whole journey.

NDN Academy has trained over 2,800 individuals and 50 corporations about understanding empathy towards customers, developing strong customer engagement and offering a strategy for businesses to drive business growth. If you are tired of hundreds of thousands of fast marketing tactics that are not driving results, maybe it’s time to stop and think why you are doing what you are doing.

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All-In-One Digital Revamp For Financial Services https://newdigitalnoise.com/all-in-one-digital-revamp-for-financial-services/ https://newdigitalnoise.com/all-in-one-digital-revamp-for-financial-services/#respond Mon, 20 May 2019 09:44:28 +0000 https://newdigitalnoise.ndnsocial.com.hk/?p=3629 The post All-In-One Digital Revamp For Financial Services appeared first on New Digital Noise.

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Virtual banking is nothing new. It started to gain recognition 20 years ago in the West and soon later in Asian countries like Japan and China. In late March 2019, Hong Kong issued the city’s first-ever virtual banking licenses. Still, we’ve got a lot of work to do to catch up with the rest of the world.

Competing with a time-proven traditional banking system, the advantage of virtual banking comes down to customer experience (CX). Imagine there is no more confusion over opening hours and waiting in line, with everything replaced by real-time consultation and online transactions over clicks and taps with your mobile devices anytime, anywhere. A smooth, seamless customer experience is what makes all the difference.

With our expertise in digital transformation and omnichannel marketing for financial institutions, we are presenting the ideal model to bridge the gap between agile virtual platforms and traditional financial services: VIBE.

Referring to Virtual Insurance and Banking Experience in its full form, VIBE is an all-in-one CX platform for digital banking and insurance services. From development to system maintenance, sales, and marketing, VIBE is a full package — covering customer experience, community management, and digital transformation.

Customer experience

A customer experience that involves any human-computer interaction (HCI) like mobile devices or kiosks is often associated with user experience (UX). Our UX approach follows a systemic process to understand needs and deliver the best possible experience for the end users.

Our 5 step UX approach:

1. Empathize and understand the needs of clients and users

2. Define our goals, customer journey, personas, etc.

3. Ideate solutions and strategies

4. Develop prototypes for testing

5. Conduct continuous test-and-learn to optimize usability and utility

To decide whether your business should invest in UX, one can consider the benefits and positive ROI generated by the methodology. A UX process focuses on improving usability, navigation, minimizing errors and load time. A user-friendly experience not only appeals to your customers, but also the search engine, which will likely result in a sustainable increase in organic search rankings and traffic.

Community management

The next step is to ensure our customers stay loyal and engaged. Supported by measurable analytics and management platforms, our team provides customized social media strategies catering to the brand’s unique positioning, values, and audience interests. The engagement channels available range from content marketing, email marketing to loyalty program.

Digital transformation

To optimize social media ROI, a business needs more than merely a Facebook page, but an omnichannel marketing strategy to re-align all marketing channels and digital touchpoints for a seamless experience, e.g. from social media to website, smartphone to tablet, etc. AI cognitive ads and marketing automation tools are some other useful tactics to engage customers and derive analytical data, while reducing wasted efforts and resources.

Case study

1.Blue, the 1st digital insurer in Hong Kong

We were honored to pull off an omnichannel debut campaign for Blue, with 360-degree touchpoints covering social media, video production, web/mobile production, SEO/SEM, as well as innovation such as cognitive ads, an AI chatbot capable of suggesting interest-based offers to engage users individually and generate sales leads.

2.Maxim’s Group

Working closely with our UX specialists, we have launched a loyalty program mobile app for Maxim’s group, one of Asia’s largest food and beverage companies. Upon completion of a series of user research, customer journey mapping, on-site observation, and competitive analysis, the app was designed to facilitate sustainability of a reward system, convenient reservation and search for restaurants.

While targeting at financial services, VIBE is a comprehensive model that can apply to any businesses aiming for a profound transformation and seamless user experience. Contact us today to explore the solutions available to your business.

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The term “cognitive” is essentially referring to cognition and intelligence. But what does cognitive have anything to do with advertising? Is it possible to earn money directly with an online ad? Here are a few showcases to understand the buzzword of the day: Cognitive ads.

The competition among traditional advertisers is tremendous – coming up with endless creative approaches to push their products or services to the audience. Now, imagine an ad robot capable of communicating with potential customers on its own, learning their consumption habits and interests, and eventually catering to their specific needs with your products or services. That is what cognitive ads, an AI chatbot banner ad, can do for your business.

Showcases

Last year, Orbis, an international humanitarian NGO launched a cognitive ad campaign for its Moonwalkers annual fundraising event, with the conversational data all stored on blockchain for future references. Blue, Hong Kong’s first digital life insurance company also launched a cognitive ad to grow their initial fan base, achieving triple engagement compared to traditional banner ads. Both clients successfully boosted traffic to their websites and most of all, they collected valuable customer data and meaningful insights on customer behaviour.

Conversational Database

In the long run, a database from users interactions will be continually growing, which helps the AI chatbot to train its conversational abilities and differentiate between spambots and human beings. It can also classify consumer responses and engagement for a comprehensive understanding of your target audience. Instead of mastering a one-way lecture to sell your products, now you can make it a two-way dialogue and find the missing piece to each customer’s puzzle.

Conversion Optimization

Let’s get down to business: conversion rates and ROIs. Aside from brand engagement, a cognitive ad itself is a channel for cross-selling, up-selling and closing the sale. Brands can introduce e-commerce elements such as lead generation, survey and on-the-spot purchase to their own cognitive ad. The conversion funnel will be shortened, with the most relevant products or services offered to your target audience at the right time.

Today you might still brag about clicks or impressions, but closing the deal is the real talk here. Money-making ad tools powered by technological breakthroughs are what businesses shall aim for. Have a chat with us to find out the unique digital solution to help your business grow.

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Micro-Moment: The Golden Window With Your Target Audience https://newdigitalnoise.com/micro-moment-the-golden-window-with-your-target-audience/ https://newdigitalnoise.com/micro-moment-the-golden-window-with-your-target-audience/#respond Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:54:27 +0000 https://newdigitalnoise.ndnsocial.com.hk/?p=3462 The post Micro-Moment: The Golden Window With Your Target Audience appeared first on New Digital Noise.

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Gone are the moments when we would find ourselves staring blankly into space while waiting for takeout or riding a bus. With a smartphone in hand, people often use these brief moments to compare prices, read product reviews, or simply search for answers to random questions that pop into their heads.

These micro-moments, as defined by Google, are “moments when we turn to a device — often a smartphone — to take action on whatever we need or want right now.”  Engaging your target audience at the right micro-moment can guide them through the sales funnel.

Seamless experience

Your marketing message may be powerful, but if it cannot be viewed properly on a smartphone during these micro-moments, you are marketing in vain. A smooth, mobile-friendly experience is the first step to get to your potential customers. A study by Google found that 79% of its users tend to revisit a mobile site if it is easy to navigate, or even share it with others.

Be there

Marketing automation platforms and retargeting ads are tools that you can use to market proactively among potential customers. Someone previously viewed your product? Make sure they see your ad when they move on to look at something else. Someone placed some items in the shopping cart and then went silent? Shoot them an email and remind them of the incomplete transaction, or even offer a discount. Sometimes all it takes for a potential customer to become an actual one is just a bit more motivation. According to Google, 73% of consumers tend to select a brand when they regularly hear about it.

Your content needs to make an impression and have people talk about it afterwards. Using the latest Internet’s lexicon, exaggerated movements (in a video) or even creating a catchphrase would help.

Winning micro-moments takes more than self-promotion. Actively engaging your target audience and making these moments viral-worthy is the key to micro-moment marketing. Need more advice? Give us a call and let’s talk it over.

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