The display notch of the OnePlus 6 will be hideable, the company’s co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Pete Lau said Wednesday. While responding to a fan question posted on the firm’s official product forums, Mr. Lau revealed the Chinese phone maker initially opted against the ability to hide the cutout of its next Android smartphone but went back on its decision following user feedback. Regardless, “the best way to experience the OnePlus 6 is using the full potential of the display,” the official said.
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/04/oneplus-6-display-notch-to-be-hideable-due-to-user-feedback.html/
Microsoft is adding a new Archive feature to its new cross-platform Skype app, for the times when you want to hide conversations instead of deleting them. The new feature is currently available in the latest preview release (8.29.76.16), which started rolling out on all platforms this week.
https://www.onmsft.com/news/skype-preview-app-adds-new-option-to-archive-conversations/
Imagine that your company’s technology is loved by customers, considered ‘best of breed’ in the industry, and has a steady NPS, comfortably in the 20s, 30s or 40s. Now imagine that in the midst of this success, some of your longest standing accounts begin to drop, others scale back their usage, and referrals slow way down.
How, you ask, is it possible? After all, isn’t the whole point of having a high NPS to ensure successful retention, upselling, and referrals?
Here’s the secret: When it comes to technology, NPS has a blind spot.
http://customerthink.com/tech-companies-beware-of-the-nps-blind-spot/
Payment solutions have come a long way from cash and chip-and-pin, and high-profile technology, such as Amazon Go, is making it one of the most watched areas of retail. In this interview, RetailTechNews speaks to Will Broome (pictured below), CEO & founder, Ubamarket, who are bringing this sort of technology to the UK, to understand why change is required when it comes to payments.
https://www.retailtechnews.com/2018/04/13/the-rapid-pace-of-change-in-payments-qa-with-ubamarket/
Today, marketers can add more flourishes than ever to surveys. They can ask customers questions at the cash register, the online shopping cart, in an email, or via text—or in all these places. They can also pile on as many questions as they want... They have the technology to do it, so why not?
https://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2017/32272/three-customer-feedback-myths-that-deserve-busting/
For modern business owners, tracking their customer and related experiences is really crucial to stay a step ahead of the competition. As the market says, customer experience (CX) is the key driver of any businesses’ success. With technological advancements, the business domain is now gifted with social media analytics as-well-as tailored software that track customer experience across multiple channels. In this article, we will be discussing how your small business can utilize these customer experience analytics and drive home your business-critical customers.
http://customerthink.com/tracking-customer-experience-analytics-helps-small-businesses/
Usability is not a new concept and has been part of the healthcare discussion for several years. Healthcare solutions offering intuitive user experiences reduce clinician burden and decrease task time. Strengthening this usability, however, is still challenging. It requires us to engage our users in meaningful ways that enable them to provide actionable feedback.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/turning-user-feedback-into-usability-success.html/
Twitter has announced it is removing support for crucial APIs needed to power third-party clients such as Twitterrific and Tweetbot.
From Thursday the social media platform shut off APIs that enable to developers to integrate push notifications and automatically-refreshing timelines into their own versions of Twitter - meaning many popular third-party apps will suffer from a severe loss of functionality.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/development/31719/twitter-kills-support-for-third-party-clients/
Uber is planning to tweak the historical pick-up and drop-off logs that drivers can see in order to slightly obscure the exact location, rather than planting an exact pin in it (as now). The idea is to provide a modicum more privacy for users while still providing drivers with what look set to be remain highly detailed trip logs.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/24/uber-to-stop-storing-precise-location-pick-ups-drop-offs-in-driver-logs/
Environmentally friendly, low-carbon energy technologies are needed to achieve global climate targets. Tobias Schmidt’s research examines the interaction between public policy and carbon-reducing innovations in the energy sector. He will present his findings at the world’s largest science conference, the AAAS, in February.
https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2017/02/user-feedback-is-essential.html/
