4b. Multiple Choice for Improvement & Design Flashcards
Question #1: Which of the following statements about design thinking is false?
- It is problem-focused
- It starts with a goal of a better future situation
- It is solution-focused
- It explores alternative solutions simultaneously
Correct Answer:
It is problem-focused
Explanation: Design thinking is about exploring many possibilities as potential solutions.
Question #2: Why is it advantageous to co-create with customers?
- All these answers are advantages of co-innovation
- Customer-initiated design ideas are far more lucrative than company-initiated ideas
- Presence of customers encourages the design team to be customer-focused
- Customers’ confirmation of the design at every step increases successful outcomes
Correct Answer:
All these answers are advantages of co-innovation
Explanation: Customer involvement early and often requires more effort, but pays off in many ways.
Question #4: What kind of research reveals the most about what customers need?
- Ethnography
- User groups
- Focus groups
- Net Promoter Score survey
Correct Answer:
Ethnography
Explanation: Ethnography is observing the customer (or prospect) in their natural surroundings.
Question #3: How does experience design benefit from customer journey mapping?
- It shows the customer’s view of what’s important
- All these answers can and should be CJM benefits
- It helps everyone empathize with customers’ challenges and aspirations
- It shows the context of a moment of truth: what comes before and after, all the moving parts around it
Correct Answer:
All these answers can and should be CJM benefits
Explanation: Journey maps convey a wealth of insights and reminders to guide customer-focused design.
Question #5: Why is it important to design superior experiences for “moments of truth”?
- To expand revenue growth across the customer life cycle
- To minimize customer churn at points where customers are most susceptible to doubt the brand
- To outperform the competitive average of Net Promoter Scores
- To ensure accuracy of customer feedback across the entire CX journey
Correct Answer:
To minimize customer churn at points where customers are most susceptible to doubt the brand
Explanation: A moment of truth is any juncture between the company and customer where dissatisfaction may lead to customer defection.
Question #6: Jobs-to-be-done refers to:
- Customers’ ultimate aim: what they’re trying to get done through your brand
- Roles and responsibilities of customer experience managers
- Step-by-step tasks of the customer experience design team
- Moments of truth in the customer journey map
Correct Answer:
Customers’ ultimate aim: what they’re trying to get done through your brand
Explanation: Customers’ main interest is their higher goal. If your solution is a mismatch with what they’re trying to get done in their life or business, then nothing else matters much.
Question #7: The most effective customer experience designs are developed by:
- Using iterative design and prototyping in short cycles with customer feedback between iterations
- Leveraging employees who previously used the product or service in their former roles
- Conducting thorough, lengthy research and testing internally before roll-out externally
- Crowd-sourcing each step of the experience design process
Correct Answer:
Using iterative design and prototyping in short cycles with customer feedback between iterations
Explanation: Frequent customer input in short development cycles efficiently center the design on what’s best for customers.
Question #8: Techniques for customer experience improvement are typically deployed in the following order:
- 5 why’s, Pareto chart, correlation analysis, predictive analytics
- Process flow diagram, force-field analysis, 5 why’s, Pareto chart
- Gantt chart, 5 why’s, Pareto chart, correlation analysis
- Correlation analysis, Pareto chart, 5 why’s, Gantt chart
Correct Answer:
Correlation analysis, Pareto chart, 5 why’s, Gantt chart
Explanation: Correlate loyalty versus other CX factors in your survey, prioritize themes in customer comments for those drivers, identify root causes of the themes, and track action plan follow-through.
Question #9: Which of these goals is most mature for customer experience improvement?
- Prevent recurrence of customer challenges for the whole customer base
- Expand the percentage of promoters
- Anticipate customer perceptions to prevent occurrence of customers’ challenges
- Closed-loop communication of detractors’ issues alerted to management shortly after a survey
Correct Answer:
Anticipate customer perceptions to prevent occurrence of customers’ challenges
Explanation: It’s best to get things right the first time (lower costs, higher morale internally and externally).
Question #10: In customer experience design, which should come first?
- Defining the ultimate customer experience, then discovering how to engage customers in it
- Discovering what customers need, and then defining a solution to design
- Designing a practical experience, then defining the environment
- Discovering the brand essence, then designing the brand experience
Correct Answer:
Discovering what customers need, and then defining a solution to design
Explanation: When you solve something customers really need, they’re more likely to reward you for it.
Question #11: What creates the most accurate prioritization of CX improvement opportunities?
- Pain point analysis
- 5 Whys analysis
- Correlation analysis
- Cost-benefit analysis
Correct Answer:
Correlation analysis
Explanation: Correlation analysis connects customer behaviors to financials. If you want to improve financials, prioritize by correlation coefficients.
Question #12: What is the proper sequence of experience design phases?
- Experimentation, ideation, discovery, interpretation, evolution
- Discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, evolution
- Discovery, ideation, interpretation, experimentation, evolution
- Interpretation, ideation, discovery, evolution, experimentation
Correct Answer:
Discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, evolution
Explanation: This exact sequence, with diligent thoroughness in each phase, is essential to successful human-centered design. Sometimes these phases are labeled differently, with identical phase definitions.
Question #13: Research that is most useful for experience design is:
- Quantitative research
- Journey mapping
- Qualitative research
- Mind mapping
Correct Answer:
Qualitative research
Explanation: It supplies the greatest breadth of information about your customer’s world. Journey mapping is not really a research method; it is a way of applying research findings.
Question #14: For customer experience improvement, the highest ROI approach is:
- Digitalization of the process
- Resolving the instance of the issue
- Quick wins
- Prevention of issue recurrence
Correct Answer:
Prevention of issue recurrence
Explanation: Stopping the problem from happening anymore for all customers will save the most money and gain the most money.
Question #15: Which one of these is NOT a schema?
- Assumption
- Brainstorm
- Mental shortcut
- Pattern of thinking
Correct Answer:
Brainstorm
Explanation: Brainstorm is not an everyday decision process, and it is generally the opposite of a schema.
Question #16: Which of the following is the correct sequence for design thinking?
- Ideate, define, empathize, prototype, test
- Define, empathize, ideate, test, prototype
- Test, empathize, define, ideate, prototype
- Empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test
Correct Answer:
Empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test
Explanation: Different labels may be used by different CX Design teams, but the content of the sequence is always identical.